{"id":3341,"date":"2019-11-08T08:09:35","date_gmt":"2019-11-08T13:09:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/?p=3341"},"modified":"2019-11-08T08:13:07","modified_gmt":"2019-11-08T13:13:07","slug":"compensating-student-athletes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/?p=3341","title":{"rendered":"Compensating Student Athletes"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
\"Compensating<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

I was at a training conference this week for my day job. It was about the future of communications (specifically public relations and marketing communication), and while I would say that it was definitely worthwhile and I learned a lot, the best conversations I had weren’t about the conference topics. That seems often to be the case with me\u00a0\u2014 what I find most enjoyable is not what I’m actually supposed to be doing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But let’s leave my flaws there for now and move on to why I bring this up. One of the people I met was a former Michigan Wolverine football player. He is a relatively recent graduate, so in the course of conversation I asked about the new California law aimed at compensating college athletes, particularly those in high-profile, high-revenue sports like football. (This week two Michigan lawmakers introduced a similar law for our state<\/a>.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He had a number of very interesting insights and was able to speak with firsthand experience about the intensity of playing on a Division 1 team. He had concerns about how exactly athletes would be compensated and when. One method he pitched was to award a lump sum of money at the end of a collegiate career based on the amount of time spent in the system. Sort of a profit-sharing thing. It would include counseling on what to do with the money (with an emphasis on saving some for future health issues).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Interesting. I’m not sure whether that’s the best way to go, but my opinion really doesn’t matter. What mattered was to listen. Maybe I did learn something at the communication conference.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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