It is the only logical outcome.
Here's this morning's Wall Street Journal story:
Paying College Athletes
- pay the players (including an educational trust fund) and invoke a salary cap
- a draft to end cheating and make a more level playing field
- separate football & basketball from the university
- operating licenses to boosters which include logos, brands, facilities
- TV money to be shared nationally on an even basis
- realignment into four super conferences with upper & lower divisions, relegation, & promotion*
- use the money to fund non-revenue athletic grants in aid on a needs basis
It's pretty much fair to everyone, especially the players. Let's drop the facade of "student-athlete" - a term invented by the NCAA and "school of one's choice (mine was Harvard, but I didn't qualify.
It prettty much levels the playing field for schools who are also-rans like Purdue, and it gets big time sports out of the hair of university presidents. Athletic departments would divided into revenue and non-revenue departments. We are the only nation with big time sports on campus. Eveverywhere else in the world, college sports is more or less club-like .
* This is borrowed from the European soccer leagues.
Here's this morning's Wall Street Journal story:
Paying College Athletes
- pay the players (including an educational trust fund) and invoke a salary cap
- a draft to end cheating and make a more level playing field
- separate football & basketball from the university
- operating licenses to boosters which include logos, brands, facilities
- TV money to be shared nationally on an even basis
- realignment into four super conferences with upper & lower divisions, relegation, & promotion*
- use the money to fund non-revenue athletic grants in aid on a needs basis
It's pretty much fair to everyone, especially the players. Let's drop the facade of "student-athlete" - a term invented by the NCAA and "school of one's choice (mine was Harvard, but I didn't qualify.
It prettty much levels the playing field for schools who are also-rans like Purdue, and it gets big time sports out of the hair of university presidents. Athletic departments would divided into revenue and non-revenue departments. We are the only nation with big time sports on campus. Eveverywhere else in the world, college sports is more or less club-like . * This is borrowed from the European soccer leagues.
