I am certain it will be a disaster after all it is coming from the state of disastrous laws that are passed constantly with no thought to long term consequences

in addition to many of the points already being made that I agree with on many of them here are some issues I see

1. there will surely be lawsuits when women players are not being paid on the same level as men.....the argument by some will be "well the market says they are not worth it" and the lawsuit back will be just like women's Olympic soccer (the big #WhereIsMine in sports now).....they will say that the reason women are not as in demand is because the schools have never built them big huge stajiums, hired expensive coaches, built massive training facilities ect. and promoted their sports the same

just like women's Olympic soccer the reality that women's pro soccer has no demand and thus the Olympic stars should accept what they will get will be ignored and the demands and lawsuits will be made.....and lets remember in women's Olympic soccer those "big stars" do get endorsements.....and so far they are not suing because they are less than men......who knows if they will, but they are suing for "equal pay" even though the demand for their services and product is not equal.....and in college since right now it is endorsements that are the proposed pay they will demand equality and that will start with "investment" in their sports.......which many have already pointed out will lead to the dissolution of many men;s AND women;s sports as schools try and contain the cost

2. with the above in mind there will be some SMALL benefit to "women kind" overall, but of course the long term consequences will be a disaster

there will be boosters that will pick select women's programs to support like UConn women's BB or Tennessee women's BB or Nebraska women's VB or OU Softball

but the VAST majority of those programs at most schools will get little to no support and when it becomes 2 or 4 schools that can never be recruited against because they have the money pipeline (it is already getting close to that now) you will see a lot of other programs tossing it in because it is simply not worth it and or they will drop down to where the academic support is much lower and the competition more equal (for a group that for the most part comes out of HS with little to no hope of EVER being pro so the educational support matters to them)

3. as others have stated programs will be cut for men and women that will just lessen opportunity.....because of the cost of trying to keep up, threatened title XI (that may or may not prevail, but will lead to admins staying "cut it") and on and on

4. students will be viewed as employees......some will try and say they are now university employees and some will now tray and say they are employees or endorsers of the companies paying them for their likeness

when the raping, robbing, killing, assaults ect start rolling in a lot of those paying the money (and possibly a lot of the schools even if they are not paying directly) will not be prepared to be drug into those lawsuits and those boycotts and those other legal proceedings or even those associations

and trust me that will be happening FAST....hey cool your 10 dealer new car group is now known for paying a 2 time rapist $100,000 to waste air and space on a university campus!!!!!....better yet then attempts to try and get it out there that you knew about one or both of hem while still paying them and thus the victims are coming after your deep pockets for endangering them and their university experience!!!......but hey any pub for your business is good pub right!!!!

5. the front companies and shell companies that will be popping up both to shield from #4 above and to simply turn booster donations into a payment machine will be astounding

what constituted and "endorsement" and who is allowed to give one?.......so registered Bahama Corp #24 with an officer group that includes university athletics and academic administrators as the BOR and their main business is "financing and investments" with assets of $50 million dollars can now pay endorsements to "promote their brand"?......ok yea sure that makes sense

you are going to see donor monies being funneled into these "companies" left and right

some might say that is OK because the players are getting paid, but eventually that will come back on them because people (females especially) will wonder why women are not getting paid a part of that (especially when they find out the "company" is basically a front for the university athletics department) and the lawsuits will fly......and probably the federal and state tax rulings that will eat up a ton of that cash eventually

the way to stop all this is to put in very strict academic qualifiers for HS freshman, probably not let freshman play at all, put in academic grade and degree progress qualifiers, do NOT let the university dump a student that is not making that progress (or their "pay" if getting any) and do NOT return the scholarship to the schools if the student fails out or is arrested until a full 5 years has passed

this way when schools are down to 60 players at some point because 25 "not here to play school" guys have failed out, been arrested, or are not academically qualified to play over the past 3 years their program will be in a world of hurt....much stricter bowl bans on schools for ACADEMIC performance and make NCAA basketball payouts much more tied to academic performance

it would help if the regional accreditation boards worked with the NCAA and had ANY backbone at all to prevent fake degree plans, but they are a scam of their own and an enforcement joke so little chance of that happening