There is a legal case proceeding where some folks think that NCAA players (mostly starting out in football) will force the issue of salaries. What kind of salaries? Unknown, and not likely to be discussed.
So, lets be honest here and admit up front....across the nation....there's probably only 35 college (more or less) that make the income from attendance, merchandise and tv contracts....that they could pay some type of salary.
Ole Miss, as an example...pulls in around $17-million a year, from it's entire sports department.
The University of Texas makes around 40-odd million off football ticket revenue.
University of Alabama? It makes around 33-odd million off their football program.
So if this case goes to the bottom line....just what kind of salary would be paid out for your average player?
My humble guess is that teams would sit down and have a 'pyramid-type' system where three to five players would be able to pull in $60,000 per season and the bottom ten players (mostly reserve players) would never make more than $5,000 a season (figure $15 an hour for practice and playing time).
Freshmen getting next to nothing? It might go that way.
Would you have some teams offering Corvettes to players who decline the pay-scale? You might have cases like that.
But there's this one problem. After you wrap up the 35-odd teams at the top level....most all other teams would not be able to pay more than $3,000 per player, and there would be this huge 'fairness' issue brewing for the NCAA.
I suspect in a matter of four years...you'd have a large segment of players trying to unionize, and suddenly Saturday football games would be hit with strikes. The whole system would collapse in a matter of just one season.
So I think the end of the tunnel is emerging and you will see a spiral starting up shortly.
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