Pilchard
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Not really sure how the NCAA, the conferences or even school's individually can enforce a salary cap. The money isn't being paid by the schools, but by third parties. The Supreme Court has already ruled that the NCAA can't keep athletes from profiting off their own name, image and likeness. So, how can the NCAA, a school or conference, possibly keep a Texas oil mogul from paying a Texas A&M football recruit for promoting the mogul's business? On top of that, there is no possibility of a collective bargaining agreement between the athletes and schools as that would require that the athletes unionize or otherwise agree to give up their individual rights to allow their collective rights to be negotiated as a whole. Don't see that ever happening.
The factors that will keep NCAA sports semi-competitive are:
- Scholarship limits (there are a lot of great athletes and not that many available slots)
- Playing time (Doesn't matter how much money is available, players aren't going to take money to sit, when they can play somewhere else)
That won't make the distribution of the best athletes even as the very elite athletes will go to the programs offering the best NIL deals, there are enough other athletes to keep programs that evaluate better and coach better competitive. The dream of WF landing 5 star football recruits or top 10 basketball recruits is unlikely to be realized in the NIL world, but WF never swam in that pool anyway.
The factors that will keep NCAA sports semi-competitive are:
- Scholarship limits (there are a lot of great athletes and not that many available slots)
- Playing time (Doesn't matter how much money is available, players aren't going to take money to sit, when they can play somewhere else)
That won't make the distribution of the best athletes even as the very elite athletes will go to the programs offering the best NIL deals, there are enough other athletes to keep programs that evaluate better and coach better competitive. The dream of WF landing 5 star football recruits or top 10 basketball recruits is unlikely to be realized in the NIL world, but WF never swam in that pool anyway.