I absolutely love the ideas here of scorched earth policies for small penalties. Give a kid a few grand? Death penalty for a year. I agree--make the cheating not worth it.

Some other points:
-baseball and soccer have no salary cap. As in, there isn't supposed to be an even playing field between teams. It's capitalism at its finest. So I think comparing college sports to the NFL/NBA isn't appropriate--plenty of sports don't have even playing fields.
- how do you guys think a relegation system would affect recruiting? I suppose very little? Throwing darts here.