Revenue-sharing with major college football players seems ‘inevitable.’ How could it be done?
FILE - Michigan head coach Jim Harbaugh speaks during an NCAA college football news conference at the Big Ten Conference media days at Lucas Oil Stadium, Thursday, July 27, 2023, in Indianapolis. When one of college football's the most famous and successful coaches makes a point of letting the world know he believes his players should, essentially, be paid, it gets a lot of attention. Harbaugh is not the only high-profile coach in the Big Ten to advocate publicly for revenue sharing with players. (AP Photo/Darron Cummings, File)[ASSOCIATED PRESS/Darron Cummings]
Michigan coach Jim Harbaugh created headlines when he went out of his way to encourage sharing with football players the billions of dollars conferences and schools make from selling the rights to their games to television networks. Harbaugh is far from alone in believing professional sports-style revenue-sharing, basically pay-for-play, is the next evolution of major college sports. Many college sports leader are hesitant about heading down that path, but there are those in and around the enterprise planning for it to happen.
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