My Thoughts about Delany's NCAA Reform Plan

  

Above is a plan by Jim Delany to reform the NCAA it calls for:

• Creation of a Educational Trust, that allows former student-athletes to return to school after their playing careers are over. 
• Time commitments, to allow student-athletes to be "full time students"
• Focusing on at risk student-athletes, 
• Miscellaneous expenses, paying the student-athletes.

My thoughts are this,

• There is no NCAA rule that blocks the Creation of the Trust, former students-athletes are no longer under the NCAA's authority. Question should be, why Jim Delany didn't announce the creation of such a trust. 
• There are already time commitments, students-athletes have to attend college classes full-time, 12 to 15 hours or more a week, have study hall, something most other students don't have. Practice, play games while maintaining a C average, majoring in a subject that has little or nothing to do with the sport that they are playing.  
• This will allow students with bad grades to keep playing, the reason that the athletes are in school is because of their ability to play sports. Many of the basketball & football players are trying to get drafted. The NCAA is the developmental league for the NBA & NFL, it also helps develop players for MLB, NHL & MLS. Many schools make money off of sports, STOP PRETENDING THAT IT IS ABOUT EDUCATION!!!
• Of course this is the hardest suggestion, I mean playing people who make you money is just the craziest thing ever. The paying of student athletes won't happen unless there is a law.

My Plan

1. Pay the players as ambassadors, they represent the school. If that is too much allow players to make money off there images, and remove all the rules that block extra benefits. If somebody wants to buy a football player a car let him, just make sure that the folks know that NO DEAL that they make with said player will be enforceable.
2. Allow student-athletes to major in sports, you know the reason why many of them are in school. Artist major is art. Actors can major in theater. Singers, & musicians can major in Music, at my graduation someone got a Doctorate in Music.
3. Either make scholarship longer or make it easier for student-athletes to transfer.
4. The NCAA needs to demand that the NBA, & NFL pay them money. If those leagues won't then they need to form true developmental leagues. (NBDL doesn't count)

That is my plan, what do you think, please comment.