On Gurley, UGA and NCAA - The Unattended Effect

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No amount of autographs are better than a $10+ mil contract in the NFL and leaving early to avoid injury/prolong your NFL career.

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While this is true, it would take some of the urgency out of the decision. Now you've got kids taking a chance trying to go pro too early when they are on the fringe to even get drafted because they need the money. That would still happen some, but you would probably see less of that if they could make some money in college.

The first rounders would still leave, but it could change the thought process for late-round/free agent guys.

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While this is true, it would take some of the urgency out of the decision. Now you've got kids taking a chance trying to go pro too early when they are on the fringe to even get drafted because they need the money. That would still happen some, but you would probably see less of that if they could make some money in college.

The first rounders would still leave, but it could change the thought process for late-round/free agent guys.

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I understand what you are saying, and on a certain level it makes sense, however.....

I collected memorabilia for years and two types of people (generally) collect college memorabilia.

1) Big fans of a particular program. These fans will collect (Mostly) players of their favorite team. For Georgia, they would collect Buck Belue, Herschel Walker, Jake Scott, David Pollack, David Greene, Lindsey Scott, etc. Players that made a significant impact on the program or were involved in memorable plays. There would not be enough demand to give these players significant amounts of money.

2) Hard core collectors. these collecors are trying to have a collection worth some money. they will collect players that made it big in their college career, and hopefully have a very succesful pro careers. They will go for Heisman winners, and players like Dan Marino, Cam Newton, Todd Gurley,etc. They want to get a signed article cheap and hopefully have a player that hits it big on the professional level to increase the value of their article.

I'm not trying to be a know-it-all or anythng, I am just familiar with what MOST collectors are going for. All of this is to say that most borderline players will not be in demand. You will only see the major players getting these opportunitis and they are the players that will be offered the multi-million dollar contracts AS A WHOLE. There will be a certain segment that will go after a Manti Teo autograph simply for the notoriety of his.....situation?
They typically will ask the player to add a a funny line to the autograph by asking Teo to sign something like: (Manti "Catfish" Teo) or something like that.

I'm not just talking about making memorabilia money. I'm talking more about marketing and advertisements.

If a great college WR who may not be a great pro prospect has a $15k ad deal with a local company, that could maybe be just enough to persuade him to stay one more year to help his stock. It could be even more of a big deal for former big recruits who may not have reached their potential yet. They might get more money in college because of their fame as recruits, and an extra year to hone their craft could be a big benefit.

Yea we aren't just talking about signing autographs they could do a lot with commercials and university sponsored events. It would help but there's always a downside to the situation.

Different example: say Malcolm Mitchell, who really needs a healthy year, was in a dire financial situation and needed to go pro ASAP, hypothetically. If he could spin his national appearance on 60 minutes or whatever that was into a relatively large marketing deal with Barnes & Noble throughout Georgia, that could buy him the ability to stay.

I think he'll stay anyway because he needs to, but just a hypothetical.

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NCAA rules are borderline unconstitutional

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They are bound by contract, not as US citizens.

Don't like the rules? Don't want to be told you can't use your own name? Don't sign the contract. Don't play.

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Conley and Mason aren't the best of examples to use. Both of those guys stayed their senior year without financial incentive from the NCAA to do so.

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True. I mainly used them as examples of players that are marginal in being drafted to the NFL. They probably could not profit from autographs, but could in other areas.

I guess staying true to the tone of the thread better examples might be players that wuld go in the 4-7th round but might go out in their Junior year anyway. However, almost all players that start could benefit from a rule change like this.

Guessing, the NCAA does not want the richer, more powerful teams offering (under the table, of course) "advertising contracts" to recruits to get them to go to their school. "Contracts" thata ctually do not exist.

Have each of these players pay back the total value of their scholarship and added value from any monies made. If the Georgia experience makes it possible for a player to make $10,000 a year, then they can certainly pay Georgia 10% of that for making it possible.

Works in the pros, does it not? Are there any restrictions on monetary exchanges in the pros for "likeness" or "name".

I do not disagree that it would introduce a lot of undesired consequences, but I'm definitely not in agreement that it cannot work. There is precedent in the pros that says otherwise.