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<blockquote data-quote="stinger78" data-source="post: 1008447" data-attributes="member: 6771"><p>I cannot believe I’m about to type this, but anyone who sticks the NCAA as the propagator of this is off base, IMO. The NCAA has many, many issues, but facilitating player pay is not one of them. They have staunchly resisted payola since their beginning as a factor inhibiting competitive balance. They have done so very imperfectly, but they have resisted. They have maintained academic progress requirements, again, imperfectly, but they have done so. They have minimized player movement, albeit imperfectly.</p><p>Still, they have stood for payment in kind for services rendered by athletes, academic progress, and player retention. However, the NCAA is now effectively dead.</p><p></p><p>NIL came about through the courts and antitrust decisions, not the NCAA. Due to the massive commercialization of college athletics, and the money involved, the players finally decided to revolt, and did so successfully, for a piece of the pie. Now it appears that payola, academics, and retention have all been tossed to the wind. As these were granted via legal decision, limits in those must be as well. The NCAA cannot. It will take an entity with both the desire and the financial means to endure a long legal process. </p><p></p><p>But who will?</p><p></p><p>Coaches? Their enormous compensation packages have fed the fire. Will they give these up! Would it matter?</p><p></p><p>Players? Why ever would they do that? Professional players are envious of their freedoms now.</p><p></p><p>Media? Please….</p><p></p><p>Fans? The only recourse fans have is not to watch. Not going to happen.</p><p></p><p>Universities? This may be the only answer. If enough universities see amateur athletics as important enough to save, they may act. I believe GT and many others might reestablish a repurposed NCAA-type organization to oversee a legally approved rebinding of SA’s to a “limited amateur” status under some type of antitrust exemption.</p><p></p><p>This may be pie in the sky, or it may not. College athletics cannot exist in its current state, IMPO.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="stinger78, post: 1008447, member: 6771"] I cannot believe I’m about to type this, but anyone who sticks the NCAA as the propagator of this is off base, IMO. The NCAA has many, many issues, but facilitating player pay is not one of them. They have staunchly resisted payola since their beginning as a factor inhibiting competitive balance. They have done so very imperfectly, but they have resisted. They have maintained academic progress requirements, again, imperfectly, but they have done so. They have minimized player movement, albeit imperfectly. Still, they have stood for payment in kind for services rendered by athletes, academic progress, and player retention. However, the NCAA is now effectively dead. NIL came about through the courts and antitrust decisions, not the NCAA. Due to the massive commercialization of college athletics, and the money involved, the players finally decided to revolt, and did so successfully, for a piece of the pie. Now it appears that payola, academics, and retention have all been tossed to the wind. As these were granted via legal decision, limits in those must be as well. The NCAA cannot. It will take an entity with both the desire and the financial means to endure a long legal process. But who will? Coaches? Their enormous compensation packages have fed the fire. Will they give these up! Would it matter? Players? Why ever would they do that? Professional players are envious of their freedoms now. Media? Please…. Fans? The only recourse fans have is not to watch. Not going to happen. Universities? This may be the only answer. If enough universities see amateur athletics as important enough to save, they may act. I believe GT and many others might reestablish a repurposed NCAA-type organization to oversee a legally approved rebinding of SA’s to a “limited amateur” status under some type of antitrust exemption. This may be pie in the sky, or it may not. College athletics cannot exist in its current state, IMPO. [/QUOTE]
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