Way to compensate student athletes is to have a fund set aside by the NCAA that requires any participating school to deposit a required amount of money into this fund to be managed by an investment firm and paid to each player the same agreed upon amount. They may chose to do this upon graduation. If every athlete who participated in sports, male and female, got the same amount, it would be fair to all involved. That way the star quarterback at Stanford would get the same payment as the lady golfer from Michigan. This would not allow a player from a big time school to be rewarded more than an athlete from a smaller school as long as both schools paid in the same amount each year to the fund.