(10-15-2019, 09:45 AM)Renaissance Man Wrote: My basic issue is that we already have professional leagues. I believe that athletes should be eligible for those leagues right out of high school. If they come to play for any college, they should be ineligible for professional leagues for four years. If the current pay for play model in California becomes national, I believe that we will end up with a handful of teams paying NFL level salaries through boosters, and the rest of college football and basketball will wither and die.
Yup. Personally, I just think any 18+-year-old should be eligible to go pro at any time. I don't see any reason to require a set period if/once a student-athlete chooses to enroll in college. Put that in place, and there's no need for the pay to play relief, which as you say, will likely result in a small number of semi-pro teams and a lot of equivalents to D2 leagues. And I am almost certain that if forced to choose, Stanford will go like the Ivy leagues rather than the Bama/Clemson/OSUs.