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True, some coaches and conference executives get excessive pay (a form of profit-taking), but that compensation is tied to generating revenue from the revenue sports. Those people aren't going to take pay cuts to make up for the reduced university resources for non-revenue sports.

Acutely, no, but over the long haul, coaches will make less money than they would have absent paying athletes (probably a good thing).  ADs will have to decide how to best allocate money in order to win, and some of that will involve a trade off between paying the star athletes more and paying the coaches more. It might mean not matching another school poaching a successful coach, for example, or a less generous contract extension.  And there may even be cases of coaches taking a less generous salary in order to create or expand a pool of money to be able to attract players.  I could even see being written into in a contract, where the coach will negotiate a salary of $x and a discretionary pool of $y that he can throw at recruits.

Also, I could see a lot of AD employees that don’t add value being let go in order to increase the pool of money able to attract players.

And yes, sports will be cut or converted into a “club sport” status in order to save money.

Lastly, I think the NCAA has a minimum number of schools that must participate in a sport for it to be sanctioned by the NCAA.  Men’s gymnastics (with only 15 participating schools) is considered at risk.

BC

[BostonCard]

True, some coaches and conference executives get excessive pay (a form of profit-taking), but that compensation is tied to generating revenue from the revenue sports. Those people aren't going to take pay cuts to make up for the reduced university resources for non-revenue sports.

Acutely, no, but over the long haul, coaches will make less money than they would have absent paying athletes (probably a good thing).  ADs will have to decide how to best allocate money in order to win, and some of that will involve a trade off between paying the star athletes more and paying the coaches more. It might mean not matching another school poaching a successful coach, for example, or a less generous contract extension.  And there may even be cases of coaches taking a less generous salary in order to create or expand a pool of money to be able to attract players.  I could even see being written into in a contract, where the coach will negotiate a salary of $x and a discretionary pool of $y that he can throw at recruits.

Also, I could see a lot of AD employees that don’t add value being let go in order to increase the pool of money able to attract players.

And yes, sports will be cut or converted into a “club sport” status in order to save money.

Lastly, I think the NCAA has a minimum number of schools that must participate in a sport for it to be sanctioned by the NCAA.  Men’s gymnastics (with only 15 participating schools) is considered at risk.

BC