(07-01-2019 01:08 PM)Wedge Wrote:  

(07-01-2019 12:47 PM)JRsec Wrote:  People are always saying that nobody in the P5 will be kicked out. That's true. But the push in California for compensation for players, whether on or off the field, will be another push to move toward an above board compensatory system. That system, should it come into play, will abnegate the need of the NCAA and winnow the field of participants in college football, and to a much lesser extent college basketball. So we are talking now about perhaps 58 programs that don't subsidize above a 10% figure (hard to say about the privates included in that number). And at least seven programs that do with several of them higher than 15%.

The California bill that's in the legislature now would require schools to permit athletes to get and keep their own NIL (name-image-likeness, i.e., endorsement) revenue, like Olympic athletes do. Would not authorize schools to pay their athletes like employees.

It would still winnow things down, as you say, because some schools would not want to compete in sports against teams featuring athletes paid above board by Nike or adidas or whomever. And there would be many more athletes willing to come off the bench for Duke hoops or Ohio State football instead of starring for a non-power program, because of the additional money and exposure, which will widen the talent gaps that already exist.

I knew that the crux of the California push is for image payments, but off field revenue includes that. But yeah, IMO it is how existing major conferences like the SEC and Big 10 will winnow their numbers down and having the push come from California simply helps those conferences with PR. They can remain silent, not object openly to what California is pushing for, and wait for the outcome.

We've experienced a variety of ways the camel has been trying to get its proverbial nose under the NCAA's tent. This is the next one, the most understandable one, and the one in which schools and the NCAA have profited the most at the player's expense. I like it's chances.