re: Kareem Abdul Jabbar weighs in on pay for college athletes

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Maybe not, but you could let players negotiate their own deals with Nike, Adidas, etc. Let them have jobs like normal students. Let them actually cash in on their own name.

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1. The vast majority of the schools these athletes play for are sponsored by 1 apparel provider. Why would anybody but nike sign a player from Lsu or Florida? And then along those same lines, all of the players from Lsu and Florida are already required to wear nike apparel. What incentive would nike have give extra money to a player at a school they are already paying to wear their things anyway?

2. A huge argument for the pay athletes side is that the athletes need to be subsidized because their schedules don't allow time for a job, "like normal students" as you put it. Nike and Adidas wouldn't be interested in signing the backup deep snapper, but his schedule precludes him from getting a job just as much as the starting qb. So exactly what problems have been solved here?