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There wouldn't be any difference for non-revenue athletes. They'll get paid, too. The compliance costs will be immense as will the potential for litigation. College sports will end, or at least will be a shell of what they are today.

If that is true for non-revenue athletes,  then I guess it is true for Menlo College, Foothill College and all the Division II, III, and NAIA schools and whatever other leagues there may be for JCs.

Hell, keep going and even club sports would be counted, let alone high school sports (some high schools in Texas probably generate more revenue than Stanford) and even Little League (which has a television contract with ESPN).  I think it will be hard to devise a limiting principle, on when an athletic activity becomes a job, though it would have helped had the NCAA and its member institutions not acted like profit maximizing corporations.

BC

[BostonCard]

There wouldn't be any difference for non-revenue athletes. They'll get paid, too. The compliance costs will be immense as will the potential for litigation. College sports will end, or at least will be a shell of what they are today.

If that is true for non-revenue athletes,  then I guess it is true for Menlo College, Foothill College and all the Division II, III, and NAIA schools and whatever other leagues there may be for JCs.

Hell, keep going and even club sports would be counted, let alone high school sports (some high schools in Texas probably generate more revenue than Stanford) and even Little League (which has a television contract with ESPN).  I think it will be hard to devise a limiting principle, on when an athletic activity becomes a job, though it would have helped had the NCAA and its member institutions not acted like profit maximizing corporations.

BC