Throughout his collegiate career at UCLA, Josh Rosen, who is now with the Arizona Cardinals, was one of the most outspoken players in the nation with much of that chatter directed at helping fix the system for student-athletes to get compensated for their contributions in their respective sport.
Although Rosen is now in the NFL, has continued this effort toward finding a solution to the problem that he has now written out a program that would help sort out how players would get paid, according to Pat Forde of Yahoo Sports.
Basically, Rosen & Co. envision athletes being able to profit within the NCAA’s established amateurism philosophy. Instead of railing against it, they want to work with it.
Under this plan, athletes can profit from various revenue opportunities that arise during their college careers – after they graduate. No diploma, no money. For players who aren’t guaranteed professional millions, pocketing several thousand dollars on their way into the working world could be a considerable incentive to earn a degree.
A key element is in forming an independent, non-profit entity – referred to in the document as a “Clearinghouse” – that works with the NCAA and acts as an intermediary between the players and potential endorsers. It would serve as a built-in buffer that alleviates the problems associated with agents and boosters who have no real regard for amateurism rules.
The plan that Rosen has set out hinges on the student-athlete graduating first in order to get paid from the various financial opportunities that arise during the course of a collegiate career. The use of a third independent party to help be the middleman between both the players and possible endorsers helps sort out any confusion while making things concrete and clear.
It would offer the opportunity for players to participate in the program with “Clearinghouse” acting as a pseudo-agent for them helping get deals that involve benefitting from the usage of their name and likeness on jerseys, video games, trading cards, and other memorabilia.
This has provided a clear plan of action that the NCAA could take, but there is still so much fuzziness with there being a huge hesitance on paying it student-athletes for their contributions for helping schools and system earn a significant amount of money off their performances in their respective sports.
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