Quote Originally Posted by ShotgunDawg View Post
Because players being able to benefit from their own likeness will likely drastically alter recruiting. The larger the fan base = the more you can make off your likeness. Personally, I believe this would be terrible for MSU, due to us having a smaller fan base.

The counter argument is that the schools with the largest fan bases mostly already get the best recruits, but it would be a real, formal disadvantage for them to also have the ability to offer more financial incentives as well.

Furthermore, it's a slippery slope. Does Alabama or Ole Miss begin to set-up autograph signings, shirt sales, etc in order to coordinate their players to make more money than other schools? Where does it end? If players can make money off their likeness, then how to you control players getting paid in the recruiting process?

What keeps boosters from getting together & deciding to spend $100,000 on AJ Brown t-shirts?

Point is, once you allow players to begin getting paid outside of the jurisdiction of the NCAA, you may as well just make paying recruits legal
Or does Big Bama Bossman show up ordering 100,000 copies of a wall poster from a player and paying $5 or $10 apiece for them (i.e., paying the player $500k or a cool million for the posters)?