Guardian Article on Academic Compensation for Student-Athletes

Do we know that Michigan isn't offering them? Or just that they haven't disclosed use of the program?

So basically, schools are permitted to pay athletes for getting good grades about what they would reasonably make at a part time job waiting tables or tending bar at Charley's.  Cool cool.  Not sure how I feel about the condition that they get good grades though.  That just seems silly to me.  It's not like the schools are some sort of benefactor grandparent, uncle, or parent.  Just pay the athletes for the "missed" opportunity.

"The last I heard, Michigan was in the majority choosing not to."

This is not fully accurate. ESPN's lackluster, quasi-hit-job article on this subject indicated that Michigan was among the many schools that had not yet decided whether or not to pay athletes for "good grades." That said, kudos to the OP for pointing out how the Guardian article deceptively attempts to tie Coach Harbaugh's contract to this issue, as if the reason Michigan has not yet made a decision is because of Harbaugh's contract. Class warfare baiting at its worst, imho.

I am an unabashed supporter of paying athletes for NIL. Initially, I thought I would also support paying athletes for "good grades." The more I think about it, the more I'm against it. Paying for grades is ripe for abuse. It probably would discourage athletes from taking more challenging courses. It would be difficult to create a equitable system that pays all athletes, not just revenue sport athletes. If you want to financially reward full-time athletes, regardless of their scholarship/walk-on status, that earn a degree, maybe that'll work.    

This article basically reads like a thinly-veiled re-writing of the  lazy ESPN article that was published a couple of weeks ago, down to trying to tie Harbaugh's extension to Michigan (and seemingly a lot of schools) not wanting to discuss how they'd pay athletes for grades.

Wasn't this discussed already a few weeks or months ago? I remember seeing a post about this before today.