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That's not accurate. There is still a hard cap of 85 "scholarship" football players. I cannot cite the actual rule but once a player plays in a regular season game that player must be counted towards the 85 player limit, regardless of whether they are a walk-on or scholarship athlete.

It absolutely should affect their qualifying for financial aid. That is based on income. It should NOT however affect their athletic scholarship. That has nothing to do with income.

My initial thoughts is that pulling scholarship money does not cap earnings as the kid can continue to market themselves more aggressively into the marketplace. That said, this "$40K and you lose your scholly" clause is seriously *****made. What the **** is the purpose of that? If the...

Agreed. And that brings up the issues I noted above; 1) How will this income be verified? 2) Will the NCAA try to ram through language stating that scholarship athletes must submit annual tax returns? 3) I have to believe the federales get involved sooner rather than later. Just...

The $40K appears to be a top line number. That's a foolish metric IMO. If a kid generates $40K in top line income by selling T shirts and traveling around for private appearances then he loses his scholarship. Yet the kid could very well have $20K in costs, so for $20K in actual profit...