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Should semipro/college players be paid, or allowed to sell their stuff? (NIL and Revenue Sharing)

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On a side note... I need ORD_Buckeye to listen or read some of Texas's AD Steve Pattersons comments on paying players and what not, and give us the unfiltered feedback as I cannot do it justice... Its well worth the read if what they are passing on the radio is true. Basically he's staunchly against paying players
 
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Texas athletic director: With new rules, Longhorns would pay each player $10,000

The University of Texas could spend nearly $6 million a year to comply with a string of recent legal rulings requiring colleges to be more generous to their scholarship athletes.
That won’t break the bank, Athletic Director Steve Patterson said Tuesday at a forum on the fast-changing business of college sports. But even rich programs like UT’s will be forced to make tough choices in the future if momentum in the courts continues to push colleges to treat their players like employees or semi-pros, he said.

Chris Plonsky, director for women’s sports at Texas, said the school already employs 350 workers to coach and care for the students who play in Austin. The money for all of those jobs, she said, comes from just two sports, football and men’s basketball.

“If we begin to [further] remunerate the participants, that’s going to break that model,” Plonsky said.

Assuming the new policies survive the legal appeals process, Patterson said UT won’t have problems paying the extra $6 million to its players. That money will break down to about $10,000 for each player. The money will cover college expenses that aren’t covered by a traditional full scholarship and give each player $5,000 in compensation for the university’s use of his image.

Entire article: http://www.dallasnews.com/sports/co...ules-longhorns-will-pay-each-player-10000.ece
 
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Just points to the direction that Autonomous Conferences are essentially a new Division or Subdivision.
Not sure everyone will match ~$10k, but all power conference members should be able to do something similar and reach collective agreements on appropriate amounts across their conference or all 5 conferences.
 
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Maybe it means the end of football. No other sport requires as many coaches, players, trainers and on and on. No other sport is anywhere near as expensive to equip and maintain and at 10K X 83 vs 10K X 15 I can see a great many schools going basketball only including Northwestern and Indiana.

This decision will be helped along by professors at places like the MAC schools who are already pissed that money is taken from the general fund to keep sports going.

My biggest concern is that schools will get into an even greater arms race than exists today - Auburn has already shown that gifts can be made to parents to entice a player and who backed the car deals for MoC and TP if not a booster? Ultimately it will lead to an acceleration of the gap between the top 40 programs and the rest. But maybe that's what the public wants, a college football scene in which there are no more games between Alabama and Southern Central Memphis Tech or YSU and tOSU.
 
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MAC (and other Mid Majors) won't profit anywhere near as much from use of player's names etc. and thus won't need to pay out as much.
I think it's literally a new Subdivision (since basketball will keep DI as a whole in tact).
It's been due for awhile, and imo the overall upward trend is reflected by the consistent increase in DIA schools... now at 128.
The Autonomous Conferences will create and maintain a higher standard, one that is probably more indicative of the fact that they're dealing with Semi-Pros rather than pure amateurs. As that article points out, the business model will need to change some... but I don't think any of these schools will be forced to quit. Maybe the likes of Indiana go the way of U. Chicago but, if anything, I think this creates a new opportunity for B1G bottom-dwellers.
Currently a recruit that has offers from Illinois and Northern Illinois may think the latter is a better choice. But if Illinois is suddenly able to offer $10k incentive, more health benefits, travel costs for parents, etc. ... that changes quite a bit. That said, I barely follow our recruiting, so I could be way off base suggesting that B1G bottom dwellers compete with Mid Majors for recruits...
 
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Will paying the athletes put an end to the $100 handshakes? What about the under-the-table pay for autographs & appearances? Free cars/clothes/shoes/meals/drinks/trips/etc?

If you don't pay every athlete from every school the same amount, does recruiting turn into the equivalent of free agency or some sort of contract negotiation/bidding war?

Where does the money come from? I mean, even at cash wealthy Ohio State, there is no untouched, secret account just ballooning every time the Bucks have a home game. That money is being used to fund something right now. Without the funding, that something either needs to go away, or it will be funded from some other source. Ultimately, the money will come out of the general fund - in other words, already ridiculous tuition rates will go up significantly in order to fund athletes' pay.
 
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AJHawkfan said:
Will paying the athletes put an end to the $100 handshakes? What about the under-the-table pay for autographs & appearances? Free cars/clothes/shoes/meals/drinks/trips/etc?

If you don't pay every athlete from every school the same amount, does recruiting turn into the equivalent of free agency or some sort of contract negotiation/bidding war?

Where does the money come from? I mean, even at cash wealthy Ohio State, there is no untouched, secret account just ballooning every time the Bucks have a home game. That money is being used to fund something right now. Without the funding, that something either needs to go away, or it will be funded from some other source. Ultimately, the money will come out of the general fund - in other words, already ridiculous tuition rates will go up significantly in order to fund athletes' pay.
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Right now the Athletic budget is said to be totally independent of the general fund.

Not sure if Title IX means that every dollar spent on football must be matched by a dollar spent on female athletes or if every football schollie must be matched by a schollie for a woman. One thing is sure, pay for athletes is going to be taken from the funds set aside for all non-revenue sports, reducing most to club status if that.
 
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AJHawkfan said:
Will paying the athletes put an end to the $100 handshakes? What about the under-the-table pay for autographs & appearances? Free cars/clothes/shoes/meals/drinks/trips/etc?

If you don't pay every athlete from every school the same amount, does recruiting turn into the equivalent of free agency or some sort of contract negotiation/bidding war?

Where does the money come from? I mean, even at cash wealthy Ohio State, there is no untouched, secret account just ballooning every time the Bucks have a home game. That money is being used to fund something right now. Without the funding, that something either needs to go away, or it will be funded from some other source. Ultimately, the money will come out of the general fund - in other words, already ridiculous tuition rates will go up significantly in order to fund athletes' pay.
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This is why I prefer to allow athletes to do stuff like sell autographs to paying them an additional stipend. It's a market-based solution that does not harm the non-revenue athletes. Plus it has the advantage of getting more money to the athletes who are performing the best.
 
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AJHawkfan said:
If you don't pay every athlete from every school the same amount, does recruiting turn into the equivalent of free agency or some sort of contract negotiation/bidding war?
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MaxBuck said:
This is why I prefer to allow athletes to do stuff like sell autographs to paying them an additional stipend. It's a market-based solution that does not harm the non-revenue athletes. Plus it has the advantage of getting more money to the athletes who are performing the best.
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That would becomes a "booster bidding war".

School's booster: I'll give you $50,000 for an autograph every year, if you go ......... .
 
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