Earlier this year, exercising newly granted autonomy, the Power Five conferences passed a measure that will allow schools to provide scholarship athletes with cost-of-attendance stipends. It is a ruling designed to help improve the standard of living for athletes operating in a highly-regulated environment that has become a multi-billion dollar industry. The stipends are determined under federally-created guidelines and are designed to assist student athletes with life expenses that fall outside of their athletic scholarships.

On The Ice:Penn State hockey is perhaps in the most interesting position of all. The Nittany Lions are one of nine Power Five schools with a hockey program. Of the nearly 60 schools in Division I hockey, only nine can say at this moment that they’ll have that extra money to give to their athletes.Does that help lure in a few more prospects? It sure does.

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