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

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MaxBuck said:
Yeah, a real problem because that doesn't happen already ...
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It would bring the active bidding above the table. It would also be interesting to see what happens with the major school and booster resources in the B1G. The SEC will always go crazy for football but I'd be curious to see whether anything changes with a green light for open bidding. Some B1G schools would still view themselves as being above it but others would finally put those huge revenue and donor dollars to good use.
 
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1. I don't think that's how the O'Bannon ruling works. I seem to recall some percentage being mentioned wrt how much University earns.
2. I highly suspect those numbers will be standardized by conferences and eventually across the autonomous-five. Bidding wars don't help anyone's bottom line.
3. There will still be plenty of under-the-table stuff; don't think that's going anywhere.
 
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cincibuck said:
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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The B1G will make $310 million this year from TV revenue alone, which is $22mm+ for each school. Football isn't going anywhere. Dropping football would be killing the golden goose.
 
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lvbuckeye said:
The B1G will make $310 million this year from TV revenue alone, which is $22mm+ for each school. Football isn't going anywhere. Dropping football would be killing the golden goose.
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An impressive number to be sure, but that's net. What's left after expenses? At some schools - northwestern, Indiana, Maryland, I'm guessing that $22M is the only thing keeping the program out of the red.
 
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Penn State, Wisconsin and Nebraska could gain advantage with Big Ten stipends

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A new age in collegiate athletics is upon us with power conferences making a power play to provide more for student-athletes. That means power conference members handing out stipends to college athletes on top of a full scholarship to take care of other financial needs and obligations. How much each school will be able to provide to players will vary by school, and it is believed the divide within power conferences could widen between the top programs and the rest of the pack.

David Jones of The Patriot News dug into the numbers to see what the expected stipends for each Big Ten member could total. Based on the information made available by CollegeData.com, Penn State came out on top with a stipend of $4,788. Wisconsin’s stipend amount came out to $4,265 and Nebraska’s total added up to $3,544. Indiana ($3,036) and Maryland ($3,024) were the only other schools to have stipends over $3,000. By comparison, Ohio State’s stipend total is calculated to be $2,454. Michigan’s is $2,054 and Michigan State is at the bottom of the Big Ten with a stipend total of $1,872.

Entire article: http://collegefootballtalk.nbcsport...a-could-gain-advantage-with-big-ten-stipends/
 
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