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Message: [QUOTE="anomander, post: 4918902, member: 2766"] That’s the thing with the collectives. How isn’t that pay to play? How does that = name, image, likeness? With the collectives, players aren’t doing advertisements for say a car dealership, that would be separate. Also, I thought the school wasn’t supposed to be directly involved with helping these kids get deals? Then how is the University allowed to set up a collective to pay kids ? What did McCord do to make $350k next year? How wasn’t that an arranged deal with the school and the player….not that i’m complaining! Wasn’t the original intention so kids can get paid for example jersey sales, autograph sessions/memorabilia, advertisement deals made with [I]insert[/I] [I]name? [/I]You can’t tell me Ole Miss and the rest of the SEC aren’t just buying players right now. Common sense, but if the school isn’t involved with a donor pointing to the kid they want and how much $ they need, then how is it supposed to work out? Were their rule changes that i missed? Right now it’s nothing more than pay for play with no salary cap which isn’t fun for the have nots and forcing conferences with 60+ years of history and rivalries being forced to break up because the flagship programs need the money to compete. My worry is this is the future the ACC will eventually being forced to go down, and where that leaves us? I’m all for players getting their share, but this is untenable and detrimental to the sport. There needs to be a change and quick. I don’t think the NCAA is the non-profit organization to lead this. They no longer have a leg to stand on due to fear of the inevitable, which is the organization also going down by the waist side, being left behind for a “Professional League”. I think there needs to be changes made asap. I don’t know by who? Maybe the NCAA, but they need an oversight committee with teeth. Their needs to be a salary cap implemented and i think the players should get a share of the media contracts where they are the main product being sold. Otherwise, the way things are now, it’s like playing a game on an app that has in-game purchases you can make if you want to spend extra money to pay for certain rewards or extras lives. It’s not fair, any sense of parity is gone, and we’ll be watching the same combination of 8-10 programs playing for the title each year, which will continue to further damage the sport long-term. [/QUOTE]

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