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I could see 2 ways this could go that maintain the college sport and yet still allow players to be paid: 1) All D1 players (FBS football, men's and women's basketball) join a union. That union licenses names and likenesses. Players are welcome to take endorsement deals, but until their eligibility has expired, the revenue from that is placed into the union to be distributed. The NCAA subsidizes this union until it's able to pay out 1-2k/month to each player (collectively bargained, of course). The downside to this is that players are unable to capitalize on their individual fame, but it still maintains an even playing field among rich and poor teams. 2) Football and basketball are spun off as associated but independent entities of the universities. They operate as a minor league with a draft, slot values, free agency, salary caps, trades, waivers, and all the other trappings of professional leagues. College education is still tied in, but no longer compulsory. A complicated system of school preference that excites the algorithm nerd in me would be in place where a player could specify a set of schools (for football, first 5 rounds), a conference (next 5 rounds), a region (next 10 rounds) and then the final 5 rounds would be open. Basketball would have 4 rounds with the same stipulations. Could make this a live draft that takes ages, or a computer draft that's over in seconds. Would have to figure out how you build draft order. It'd get rid of the pretense of the "student athlete" while still limiting them to 4-5 years of eligibility. Would increase parity. Could make a deal with the NBA to keep high draft picks with their minor league teams longer, but I think measuring the risk of drafting a one-and-done player with an early pick makes things very interesting. Of course, none of this will happen. The NCAA will either win their suits that allow them to keep not paying anyone or the whole thing will implode and college sports will revert to being a bunch of unrecruited club teams and the NFL/NBA will have to pick up the slack with a true minor league system.
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Kibner posted:The NBA will have minor league teams for all 30 teams as soon as next season, iirc. Right now, I think there are only four teams that don't have their own dedicated G-League team. 30 teams is nice, sure, but there are 351 D1 basketball teams. Only baseball and hockey get anywhere close to that for quantity. General Dog posted:Also the draft should he abolished Why?
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Feb 27, 2018 15:45
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General Dog posted:Doesn't it seem pretty anti-labor for these players to have no agency as far as what team they go to, and to be paid well below market value for the first 5ish years of their career? (which in the NFL is basically their entire career) Some players are paid below market value if they are drafted lower than their ability, could fix that by adding standard performance-based incentives to all slots. Draft helps promote competitive balance and controls costs for teams. Otherwise the rich teams would be able to offer salary-cap friendly contracts with big signing bonuses to get the equivalent of 5-6 first round players each year. It's a business, controlling the cost of labor is part of business. NFL has a union to negotiate on the players behalf which really changes all of the rules about how one should feel about their pay. Personally, I think the groups getting screwed by all this aren't the players or owners, it's the fans who can't afford tickets anymore or the cities who are being asked to foot the bill for giant stadium projects.
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