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It'll be interesting to see what impact this has over the next 10 years.

IMO, the graduate transfer and players redshirting their senior year to take advantage of it will explode. If you are a good basketball player at Iowa St and Kentucky makes you a $75k offer to transfer your senior season and be a backup, why not?

Does this end up violating the spirit of title 9 laws? If the men's basketball team at Louisville is each earning $50k per year and the women nothing - that's not going to fly for long.

If Knight flows some money into Oregon basketball, will they be the next Duke or Kentucky? $500k per year per starter? Maybe $1 million per? Stanford and all their tech billionaires - watch out
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Yeah, Pandora's box just got opened.
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If players want to be paid, go pro. There is nothing that keeps a 19 year old basketball player from immediately going pro in a Europe, Asia or a low level in the US. Same with football to a far lesser extent.

Soccer and baseball players already go pro straight out of high school.
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beagleboy wrote: Tue Oct 01, 2019 5:15 pm If players want to be paid, go pro. There is nothing that keeps a 19 year old basketball player from immediately going pro in a Europe, Asia or a low level in the US.
Isn't that basically what LaVar Ball did with two of his kids?
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Reservoir Dog wrote: Tue Oct 01, 2019 5:31 pm
beagleboy wrote: Tue Oct 01, 2019 5:15 pm If players want to be paid, go pro. There is nothing that keeps a 19 year old basketball player from immediately going pro in a Europe, Asia or a low level in the US.
Isn't that basically what LaVar Ball did with two of his kids?
Yes. The argument that players should be able to get paid is available to them. When you sign the dotted line to get the scholarship - you agree to certain rules. If schools are going to exit the NCAA it is likely only a matter of time before they are deemed profit centers and the IRS comes after them for taxes.

When you are paid - you are a professional. Pure and simple. Doesn't matter if you source the funds through an outside company - you are a professional.
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You do realize that it's not the schools paying them, just their own activities (showing up at car dealerships, selling T-shirts etc)?

Though things will really get interesting if they actually try to get a piece of the college's action, i.e. ticket revenues, TV money. That's not part of the California legislation though.

P.S. Though it'll likely bring a lot of stuff the schools currently do under the table to get the best athletes out in the open now.
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beagleboy wrote: Tue Oct 01, 2019 5:15 pm If players want to be paid, go pro. There is nothing that keeps a 19 year old basketball player from immediately going pro in a Europe, Asia or a low level in the US. Same with football to a far lesser extent.

Soccer and baseball players already go pro straight out of high school.
Pretty much.
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FSchmertz wrote: Tue Oct 01, 2019 11:03 pm just their own activities (showing up at car dealerships, selling T-shirts etc)
This thought process is the talking point but is completely false when it comes to reality. UMiami supposedly had a $20m fund set up by boosters to pay prospects. Expect schools like Oregon and Ohio State to have $100m funds set up by the time the law goes into practice. Sure it won't be the school itself but the boosters so what's the difference? The coach will be directing them on payments to make.

Houston QB D'Eriq King is now redshirting after his dad put it out here he was going to transfer. Players like that are going to transfer all the time to get that $100k payday.
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