Why Should Not We Pay Student-Athletes?
During 2009, the UCLA that is former basketball Ed O’Bannon took from the NCAA in a lawsuit that challenged the company’s capacity to benefit from the likenesses of university athletes in a video clip game. But once the situation heated up, its stakes and range started initially to sprawl, starting a might of worms that threatened to upend one of many bedrock concepts of university activities: amateurism.
“we wanted . getting the NCAA to at the very least acknowledge on the Code Switch podcast that they were wrong in using former players likeness for profit, and that eventually branched off into current players owning their likeness and why they should,” O’Bannon said to me. “Then it branched down later into actual present players getting compensated through the universities and through the NCAA — not just baseball and soccer, but all athletes. Both women and men.”