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Originally Posted by Pagal4321
I'm sorry but the NCAA and every school with an athletic program make money hand over fist on an annual basis. All this will do is allocate a piece of the pie to the actual players, something that I think is far overdue.
Or am I missing some kind of bigger picture here?
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I can see a lot of potential fallout if the entirety of the NCAA were to go the way of professional sports. Some good, some bad. Mostly due to the costs of paying players. Do salaries replace scholarships? Are the other sports that the big football and basketball (especially) pay for allowed to wither and die? How many schools would be stupid enough to take even more from educational funding to funnel into sports programs? The competitive imbalance in NCAA sports would be made worse; smaller schools would have no hope of competing at D-1. OTOH, it would probably also eliminate the under-the-table financial cheating that schools, boosters and agents already do on a wide scale and bring it all above board.
It would have an impact up here too. This would professionalize the NCAA, making its own draconian rules about professionalism obsolete. They would need a new argument to bar major junior hockey players, or there would be free reign to move between the CHL and the NCAA. And how would that work? Especially since both side would end up trying to enforce player contracts. Not to mention that it would take away one of Junior A's big selling points.
What happens when college athletes go on strike - or the schools lock them out? How would the rules work between public and private schools? (This ruling currently applies only to private schools, but the kids at places like Penn State are going to want the same rights.)
A great many unknown questions right now. From a purely academic standpoint, this could be very interesting.