Kentucky involved in NCAA revenue sharing petition

Fifty nine Kentucky student athletes have signed a petition to set aside some television revenue for football and basketball players. Over 300 student athletes nation wide have also signed the petition and have sent it to Indianapolis to the NCAA headquarters.

The National College Players Association presented a document, the petition, to student athletes and they started sending those in on Monday. The document asks that the NCAA put an unspecified amount of what they believe is a $775 million in acquired money from television deals aside for football and basketball men’s athletes. These are by far the two most revenue driving sports at the collegiate level, yet as the deals grow fatter, the athletes driving that money to their collegiate programs don’t see a dime of it.

Other universities that sent in petitions include UCLA, Purdue, Arizona and Georgia Tech. It is rumored that the deal could provide an additional $2000 to student athletes on top of their scholarship to help pay for other educational expenses, parking fees and more.

It’s a good start. It would put money back into the money making sports, and as long as all of the athletes will be making approximately the same amount, there should be no problem. If the money is coming directly from the abnormally large TV deals and NCAA and not the universities themselves, this could be a fair benefit that sweetens the pot for basketball and football players. Is it enough, probably not. The NCAA brings in an awful lot of money for themselves, when all they have managed to do is make things worse with ridiculous rules and terrible decision making. That money should be spread out a little more to those universities and athletic programs. But it is a good start and hopefully a sign of things to come for student athletes.