[lex24]

Thanks for the link, Outsider. Here's the money graf:

Being that only 18% of five stars who don’t go to Alabama end up as first round picks, there are quite a few busts out there. It doesn’t take too many seven figure ego fueled “investments” going south before boosters stop giving money so freely to high schoolers. It’s only logical that the “smart” money will instead flow to the more proven Gibbs and Addisons of the world.

I suspect coaches at decent Group of Five programs know well how this happens. Now the non-blueblood Power 5 programs are squealing about the system, and they command enough attention that just maybe something might be done to try to curb what's going on.

This is my position. Make it a free for all. Big boosters will get tired of losing a bunch of money on prospects who don't perform, and some kind of equilibrium will suss itself out in this unhinged market.

Here's where schools like Stanford need to raise absolute hell with the NCAA:

- Allowing immediate transfers without restriction has to stop.
- Have a 3.0 GPA, you can transfer and be eligible to play at your next destination right away.
- Otherwise, you have to sit out a year.


Allowing athletes to be paid as much as they can earn in the pros puts schools that don't arrange for athletes to be paid a lot, at a massive disadvantage. While Stanford might be losing its 5th years and 4th year Seniors who have graduated early because they want to get on with earning money, USC will be paying upperclassmen to play.

This is so preposterously absurd. Stanford will be forced to play less experienced, weaker players against more experienced and more physically developed players because USC is making sure they are paid and Stanford isn't.

Y'all claim athletes should be paid by the schools. I get it, but the ONLY way to get any control of the system is for the schools to be the ones doing the paying, and outlawing NIL deals, or at least mandating money athletes earn be put in a trust fund that they can access after they leave school. Because the NCAA can set standards (limits) on compensation and if athletes sign their scholarship deals, nobody can say they were exploited without being paid.

I knew the University of Scandal & Corruption would push the envelope on this madness and it doesn't surprise me AT ALL that USC is tampering with a player who isn't in the transfer portal. Just nauseating.

There is simply no way schools can pay players as “employees”.  Way too many issues - practical and legal.  Not gonna happen.

And upon what do you base your statement that the NCAA can set “standards (limits) on compensation?” Sounds like an anti- trust violation to me. Absent a CBA. And that isn’t going to happen either.

[lex24]

Thanks for the link, Outsider. Here's the money graf:

Being that only 18% of five stars who don’t go to Alabama end up as first round picks, there are quite a few busts out there. It doesn’t take too many seven figure ego fueled “investments” going south before boosters stop giving money so freely to high schoolers. It’s only logical that the “smart” money will instead flow to the more proven Gibbs and Addisons of the world.

I suspect coaches at decent Group of Five programs know well how this happens. Now the non-blueblood Power 5 programs are squealing about the system, and they command enough attention that just maybe something might be done to try to curb what's going on.

This is my position. Make it a free for all. Big boosters will get tired of losing a bunch of money on prospects who don't perform, and some kind of equilibrium will suss itself out in this unhinged market.

Here's where schools like Stanford need to raise absolute hell with the NCAA:

- Allowing immediate transfers without restriction has to stop.
- Have a 3.0 GPA, you can transfer and be eligible to play at your next destination right away.
- Otherwise, you have to sit out a year.


Allowing athletes to be paid as much as they can earn in the pros puts schools that don't arrange for athletes to be paid a lot, at a massive disadvantage. While Stanford might be losing its 5th years and 4th year Seniors who have graduated early because they want to get on with earning money, USC will be paying upperclassmen to play.

This is so preposterously absurd. Stanford will be forced to play less experienced, weaker players against more experienced and more physically developed players because USC is making sure they are paid and Stanford isn't.

Y'all claim athletes should be paid by the schools. I get it, but the ONLY way to get any control of the system is for the schools to be the ones doing the paying, and outlawing NIL deals, or at least mandating money athletes earn be put in a trust fund that they can access after they leave school. Because the NCAA can set standards (limits) on compensation and if athletes sign their scholarship deals, nobody can say they were exploited without being paid.

I knew the University of Scandal & Corruption would push the envelope on this madness and it doesn't surprise me AT ALL that USC is tampering with a player who isn't in the transfer portal. Just nauseating.

There is simply no way schools can pay players as “employees”.  Way too many issues - practical and legal.  Not gonna happen.

And upon what do you base your statement that the NCAA can set “standards (limits) on compensation?” Sounds like an anti- trust violation to me. Absent a CBA. And that isn’t going to happen either.