Reply to "NCAA mandatory amateurism in question?"

luv baseball5,000+ posts

Phil Knight. Schools that have a guy like him hanging around may end up with a competitive advantage. For a mere $4.5 MM he could fund $50k per player for 90 players on the football team. Or $100k for each of 45. Chump change for Nike and a NFL team called the Ducks sporting the Nike logo on everything on national TV every week to pay for it.

It could be an arms race and if you have someone that is in love with a sport they could fund a dynasty by delivering the top prospects every year to the tennis team or golf team assuming those sports even survive.

Other string has similar theme - college sports is about to be turned upside down IMO,

6/23/2110:08 AM

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