23A Venture's Unfair Advantage

1) College sports as a family - College sports bring together athletes from around the world and treats them as if they have another family or a family all together. An example is Roy Williams from UNC and what he does for his athletes.

2) Charity - Many Division I programs reach out to the community and help a local charity in need. This puts their image out into the world and has them looked up to.

3) Coaches - The coaches within the program are there to encourage you and to help you become a better athlete and student. They are also there to help you prepare for the future and your life outside of college sports.

4) Brands (Nike, Adidas, Puma) - These brands are the brands that each team uses throughout the nation (including other brands). Each brand makes some type of money off of the teams and the merchandise that the team and institution wears.

5) Knowledge - Each athlete has to go through certain requirements by the NCAA that they have to follow before they start playing at the institution. With their knowledge of each rule and each requirement, it will help them be a successful athlete as long as they follow the rules that the NCAA makes them follow.

6) Athletes in the NCAA - The athletes of the NCAA are students who are looking to either pursue their career outside of college or use it to help them be a better student on and off the court/field.

7) Publicity - Each NCAA team gets public knowledge at some point throughout their season. With the people that I know within the press and the people that I know who work within NCAA teams, I would be able to learn the insides of the teams. I would also be able to give information to the people that I know that work with the teams social networking sites.

8) Money - With the Fair Pay to Play Act coming together, this would allow the student athletes to get paid for their image, name, and likeliness through the program. With this act, athletes can start earning up to a million dollars in endorsement deals starting fresh out of high school.

9) Money set away - If/When the act goes into play, each athlete needs to have some time of money put away for them. Receiving a high amount of money at a young age could mess with their egos and they get rid of it all within the next several months. This will allow the athletes to have some type of money after they graduate or if they don't make it to the professional level.

10) Talent - Having the talent to play where you are offered endorsement deals can make you feel like you are on top of the world. In order to keep those endorsement deals, the athletes will have to be up to par on their talent and continue to be successful.

I think the most important on out of these ventures is knowledge. You have to have some type of knowledge of what you're going to be put into as an athlete and what you are going to be going through with endorsement deals. It is not a cake walk. Even for coaches, they have to knowledgable of the right and wrong with these deals.