Originally Posted by
Lord McBuckethead
I mean, look at this thing from a legal standpoint.... Every single student on campus can make money anyway they see fit, as long as it is legal. I or any other business owner in this country could give a student 500k to attend their school, if they wanted. Every student in academic good standing can legally play sports as long as their eligibility has not been used up and they can pass a physical, correct?
The amateur model was fantastic, when schools had club teams and met other club teams to play in front of maybe 200 other students. It did not work well when colleges were getting checks cut from ESPN for 60 million a year. The NCAA should have put into place a system where athletes get a share of those dollars, say 30% spread out over the entire team across all sports. Equal for everyone involved. How many student athletes do we have on campus, 350? You take 18 million and divide it by 350 and you get $51,428 dollars per scholarship athlete. You could even weight it for football, but you would have to offer 85 female athletes the same cash to be equal for title iX. That would have solved all of these issues, and the money would be public knowledge. It would force TV contracts to be more equally divided between the major 5 conferences too. Larger schools would have a disadvantage, as they have more student athletes because they compete in more things, like LSU, BAMA, Auburn, and UF.
But no, they refused until forced by the courts. Now we all have to live with the school's greed and its consequences to the entire NCAA system.
