Eric Zorn: Not allowing college athletes to make money is elitist and exploitative. States can help put a stop to it
More than 30 years after the Olympic Games abandoned its fussy attachment to amateurism, the Illinois General Assembly advanced a proposal to force the state's colleges and universities to do the same.
It was almost immediately overtaken by the ground-shaking news that the NCAA would now support a similar move.
The Student Athlete Endorsement Act (HB 3904), sponsored by Rep. Emanuel "Chris" Welch, D-Hillside, would allow intercollegiate competitors to hire agents and make money off the commercial use of their own names, images or likenesses, just like the pros do. It passed out of
