(09-28-2017 08:38 AM)TexanMark Wrote: The NCAA in their self-serving ways to protect their billion dollar enterprise will come up with reforms. They'll say CYA statements and apologies that they should have done better. They'll try to put in more feckless controls to enforce rules. They might even ban or put a cap on what shoe companies can pay to schools.
At this point the schools either all take a step back and work on meaningful reforms with the NCAA or more likely the biggest schools break away and form a new association. Could see a new Power 30/60/90/120?
Just my early speculative thoughts.
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First a few random thoughts:
1. A layered bureaucracy can't be reformed. Therefore the NCAA should be tossed and new governing institutions with regulatory and enforcement emphasis should be put into place. The institutions should be paid for by the member schools and never should be permitted to pocket proceeds from events with the promise of dolling said proceeds back out.
2. For the good of all college sports scholarships and books and living expenses should be covered tax free. All other sources of revenue to the athletes need to be extraneous to the schools and should be subject to taxes. If Pepsi wants to use Lamar Jackson for promotion of its product that's between Pepsi and Lamar. The governing body and school should not be a party. If Lamar subsequently violates team rules or fails to pass coursework and is dismissed that's the school's business and not Pepsi's. (And for the chronically slow that was a hypothetical illustration.)
3. There is no longer any such thing as an amateur.
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Suggestions:
1. Create the new regulatory and governing units and do so for each division. That way only schools in a division vote on issues pertinent to them.
2. Permit all athletes to have taxed endorsement revenue beyond the purview of the schools.
3. Clearly delineate the schools rights to discipline, dismiss, and manage the athletes independent of agents or companies.
4. Make all scholarships solid 2 year commitments which may be renewed for an additional 2 years and amended for redshirt, injury, or any other extension of time granted by the governing authority.
5. If an athlete chooses to leave early the school, or professional sports team to which they are leaving is responsible for reimbursing the school they are departing for any unfulfilled time on their two year commitment.
6. The lines of amateurism, eligibility, and investment by the scholarship provider have for too long been blurred. They need to be cleaned up and defined in such ways as to protect the rights of the players and the investments of the schools.