(11-12-2019 12:53 PM)WMTribe90 Wrote:  

(11-12-2019 09:07 AM)TribeInTheBurg Wrote:  

(11-12-2019 12:14 AM)WMTribe90 Wrote:  Not hard to imagine a scenario where a P5 recruiting pitch includes something like this:

"Sign with us, we have contracts in place with other 50 businesses to supply players for marketing and advertising events. We can guarantee you an extra 10,000 year as a roster member, $50,000 year as a starter, and $100,000 year as a returning all conference player"

Once you say the players can profit from their fame, what's to keep the schools from serving as the go between or at least steering the players to the "right places". What's too keep a booster that owns a business from simply paying players to appear in worthless or over-priced advertisements as a way to lure blue chip recruits. Is the NCAA going to regulate intent and fair market value and what's compensation versus a "signing bonus"?

Are schools in small media markets being placed at a disadvantage? Are kids going to pick schools based on their in-house media relations department and ability to funnel gigs to players?

Yes to all of this, but the problem is mostly that the NCAA spent all their time trying to keep the money they make away from the students and schools instead of getting out in front of this 15-20 years ago. Good solutions take time, and instead of figuring them out the NCAA kept their fingers in their ears anytime someone brought it up. The biggest difference is that the students might benefit at the expense of schools this time.

Good point TITB, I agree. NCAA should have stepped in 20 years ago and had each incoming college athlete fill out an NCAA financial aide need form, similar to the FAFSA form. The NCAA could have directly subsidized athletic scholarships to cover costs for things such as travel home, gas and car insurance, laundry, haircuts, etc. based on a financial need formula. Instead, well intentioned folks are going to blow up college athletics and any pretense of a level playing field . Of course this "solution" will only help athletes at the top DI schools and do nothing for FCS, DII and DIII athletes also struggling to make ends meet while going to school and pursuing their athletic dreams. It's sad and they'll be no going back.

Maybe boosters blow up college sports, but I think it's too obvious to be allowed to happen. I don't know how it'll be prevented, but I suspect there will be something written in the next two years that will be in direct response to the laws being passed.