Will the NCAA be able to enact caps on the amount of available money a school/conference or even the sport can make available?
The NFL, NBA and NHL all have salary caps and even MLB has the luxary tax (kinda) to keep parity mostly in effect.
I for one, don't like paying kids in college sports. If they want to make money, then send them to development leagues (aka g leagues) and let them earn the money they want. Yes, players have been paid under the table for as long as college sports has been around and there are many who don't see NILs as an issue, but to look at this from a worst-case scenario means that recruiting talent now goes to highest bidder. Which will lead to all manners of tactics including but not restricted to drugs, sex and everything in between.
It also could ramp up performance enhancements as well as increasing the pressure on kids/parents to be/get better. Yes, people are going to me out about the 'Sky Falling' but these are real potentials because we all know that will money and entitlement, comes abuse, failure and tragedy.
I don't know if this is anything the NCAA can even handle any longer. With the amount of money that will be generated and the need to regulate this ever-changing entity, something needs to occur to bring this thing back to center.
There may be mechanisms forming to handle this but for now, this initial surge doesn't give me any warm fuzzies about the future of college/high school sports.
The NFL, NBA and NHL all have salary caps and even MLB has the luxary tax (kinda) to keep parity mostly in effect.
I for one, don't like paying kids in college sports. If they want to make money, then send them to development leagues (aka g leagues) and let them earn the money they want. Yes, players have been paid under the table for as long as college sports has been around and there are many who don't see NILs as an issue, but to look at this from a worst-case scenario means that recruiting talent now goes to highest bidder. Which will lead to all manners of tactics including but not restricted to drugs, sex and everything in between.
It also could ramp up performance enhancements as well as increasing the pressure on kids/parents to be/get better. Yes, people are going to me out about the 'Sky Falling' but these are real potentials because we all know that will money and entitlement, comes abuse, failure and tragedy.
I don't know if this is anything the NCAA can even handle any longer. With the amount of money that will be generated and the need to regulate this ever-changing entity, something needs to occur to bring this thing back to center.
There may be mechanisms forming to handle this but for now, this initial surge doesn't give me any warm fuzzies about the future of college/high school sports.
