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Originally Posted by Table 5
There's a pretty easy solution. Let the players sign at any point in time while they are in College, but allow them to still play out their College careers if they so choose. The contract can start when they leave, and if there's no bonus money at signing, they aren't getting anything financial out of it during their college years. Why does it have to be an either/or situation for the NCAA?
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I don't know, if college players had to choose between signing now and not getting signing bonuses or wait to sign and get signing bonuses, they would probably wait till they could sign a contract with bonuses.
The maximum amount for a signing bonus in the ELS is $277.5k spread in 3 payments. That is just for signing the contract, and no expectations of playing any games.
Seems like a big financial loss.