Honestly I think it is stupid if they cannot keep the miles. If there are miles to be obtained, why not? It is not nearly the same as money and has little to do with the "love of the game". I highly doubt any student-athletes would go through all of the practice and training just for miles - they do it because they like the sport they play or at least are good enough at it to earn a scholarship. If the rates negotiated with the airline would be such that there would not be miles available, that is fine, but to just enfore a rule that they cannot earn miles is downright stupid. They should not be wasting our tuition dollars to regulate things like this, find something more important to regulate and let the students have their miles. Anyone who spends that much butt-in-seat time on a plane deserves to keep the miles.