(11-07-2019 11:58 PM)Hotrod829 Wrote: I honestly don't think money in the pocket of Athletic-Students will not change the game drastically. For example , in 2008 of Rodney Landers wanted to run a football camp he would have been able to profit off of it in Harrisonburg. Y'all forget that towns like Harrisonburg love their Athletic Students just the same as the P-5 conferences. Or just allowing athletes to work camps during the summer for money from these million dollar coaches would help as well. If it wasn't for Pell Grant I wouldn't have been able to afford to send my brother money back home so he could eat and have clothes to wear.
And if these Athletes should be making a decision based on education and not football they shouldn't allow FB coaches to recruit them and offer them scholarships before they are even accepted. Let athletes make the choice without being pressured by coaches who can leave when they are offered a "better" opportunity.
Thank you HotRod. That angle doesn't get discussed enough and has cost athletes, money/opportunities. Also, for everyone assuming this only benefits the big schools, I'm not entirely sure and think it could be sport-dependent. In any case, we all can guarantee there will be unintended, and unforeseen, consequences, down the road.
For example, while the money from the return of an EA Sports Football/Basketball game could be enough to encourage most athletes in those sports to go to schools where that is paid out because their team is featured in the game, what about the other sports?? In a sport like Softball, for example, I wonder if even more local stars might go somewhere like JMU instead of [insert random SEC/PAC12 school here]. The car dealership in Tuscaloosa or Tuscon, or for that matter Westwood/LA ain't hiring the softball pitcher when the nickel corner or the sixth man is a bigger deal in those towns. But at JMU, the "hypothetical" star local upperclass pitcher from Softball might be much better positioned than almost anyone in town to benefit. In turn, if you're Gonzaga hoops or JMU Softball or Bemidji St. hockey or Hopkins lax now you might have even more incentive to double-down on a successful sport that becomes your niche and suddenly be able to out-recruit schools you only dreamed of in that niche sport since the others have a lot more hands in the pot.
And let's say the EA Sports money doesn't turn out all that great. If you're EA, and now you have to pay something to 1000+ people every time you crank out a new edition, maybe you make the game P5 only, or maybe you decide the juice just ain't worth the squeeze at all as one of the things that made the games so fun was being able to play with so many schools and build out your favorite team. In that case, where does a "hypothetical" Wide Receiver stand to gain more - making 10 grabs a year at a B1G school or being an absolute star at an FCS school in a small-town with a devoted market?
I'm as cynical as anyone about who this will benefit, but I just think there are a whole bunch of unknowns. And the one thing that is known is that if the NCAA can find a way to do something stupid that makes even their "big" members unhappy, they will.