Where does the NCAA go from here?

It’ll up the tax revenue…. at the expense of the NCAA (who currently does not pay taxes). You’re opening the floodgates, and though the discussion needs to occur, it can’t happen within the realm of the NCAA. The very thing your proposing would require such an overhaul of the NCAA, that it’d be better to just disband and recreate a new entity.

You also open the door to advertisers on jerseys (which has been discussed before) and the capitalizing of an entity that belongs to the school. Now in most states, a school is considered the arm of the state, and the athletic department would have to be some form of publicly owned entity. This is so difficult for governments to get right, you might as well privatize the teams. This means that the team is legally not part of the school, but it can be written in contracts that team members receive a private scholarship to the school affiliated with the team.

Needless to say, you can keep rolling the snowball down the hill; the stadiums are built on college campuses, which are owned by the state, and would need consideration on whether the stadiums themselves should be privatized or if the state should get into the athletics business of letting these essentially professional teams play in the stadiums.

What your proposing may seem simple at first, but nearly every aspect of the game, aside from the actual playing of it, would need changed.

the school boards and presidents would oppose this from the beginning. That would require a lot of money to pay all those athletes, and schools are having to cut their budgets these days.

But only if you want the 120-team league to shrink to about 30 teams who could afford to pay players.

I don’t know about you, but I’m currently paying off about $40k in school loans. The benefit of being blessed with athletic ability is a free education. Call me old school, but that’s a hell of a benefit IMO.

The cheating and selling of the commitments will still continue. Everyone will get paid the same, so it will still be who will pay the most for the signature. I am not aganist paying them, but it will not eliminate the problem.

The schools that would really benefit from this would have the wealthiest alumni. So if you are looking to make the Ivy League a super power, this is the way to do it. Granted, the kids would have to make the grades to get in, but believe me, they could outspend us in a second. Same is true of Notre Dame, they would instantly be a front runner as they have an extremely wealthy alumni base that is passionate about football. A lot of kids could easily overlook the Catholic thing for $1 million bucks.

bored 3Ls. It would be hell, given the current jurisprudence on Title 9. Do you really want to expose the football team (i.e. something important) to a federal injunction days before the IB? The Fed judge wouldn’t care, and sadly probably not understand, how important the game is; he would look at the actual discriminatory impact on the womyn’s netball team, who would probably get a case of Tab and wine coolers for a season.

Nice idea in theory, but bad consequences

be unfair, but it is already unfair. If MSU had the money they would have a NC.

It doesn ‘t mean small schools would go out of business etc. They’d have about the same chance as they have now.

And I know it won’t happen, but it would be as good a system as we have now. Let’s be honest there is no way the NCAA can police what we have going on now. If schools won’t self penalize, and most won’t, it is going to get even worse. If you make it all legal, run it through the school, then at least we have a level of everyone playing by the rules.

And under the table money doesn’t make sense in this system. You can just pay them straight up why put it under the table?

And, do most of these kids really play for the school just because they love the school? I seriously doubt it. They may grow to love the school, but most play because it was the best deal for them when they were recruited.

If you start paying these athletes you essentially create another NFL division. Why is it that most of us prefer college to NFL? Its because your not watching spoiled rich men with nothing to lose tackle one another. College players show more heart and emotion because they are playing for a chance to take the field in an NFL uniform. If you pay them then you sap that element out of the game. Don’t get me wrong I love NFL football, but college football has something that NFL doesn’t.

I am dead set against paying players. An education is worth a hell of a lot. Ask Prothro if his education didn’t help him. Every super star is one injury away from being nothing without their education.

Next if we are paying players will there be trades. One thing I love about CFB is that the players I root for are unlikely to be at my rival’s school next year. I would be so pissed to see ingram at the Barn because they out bid us.

Next point, players will become million dollar babies, just like the NFL. Coach benches you, so what, I still made my signing bonus and my salary screw you coach. I know the arguement that will be made. That makes the player look bad for the NFL but if teams are willing to put up with Vicks, TO’s, and other jerk players what do they care.

However, yes I can see the slippery slope argument, I think the kids could get benifits. An alum should be able to take a player to dinner, or go on a fishing trip. There needs to be a diminimus amount a kid can get. Coach I need shoes or a shirt or just some spending money. Coach Bryant use to do that for his players when it wasn’t a violation. Coach Bryant despised having to pay players to recruit them because he wanted the kid to come because of the university not the money but back then you had to pay to keep up with schools who were paying to recruit players like Notre Dame. Remember when they were a powerhouse.

I could go on but I have ranted enough.

NO

has stepped on their collective scrotum….again. All this big talk of “zero-tolerance”….bullshit. Reeks of cash-grab damage control. But, then again, what do I know.

RBR on this whole NCAA ruling yet…

Im not mad or anything, just find it odd.