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[QUOTE="Ward, post: 1752436, member: 1958"]
I agree with you in that if you make it open season/free market it would 100% lead to a gentrification of sorts in college athletics. The big state schools with huge fan bases cranking out 25-35k graduates a year would price themselves into a whole other level in terms of being able to compete. Schools with wealthy alumni and national non-alumni fan bases would probably be able to hold their own but most schools smaller in size would get washed out.

While this isn't the most PC take I don't get the logic that if you pay a football player who is a key player in a program that brings millions into the school you have to pay the random student athlete who plays in front of 14 people on a Wednesday afternoon. It just doesn't correlate to any other labor economics situation in the world. I don't know the answer and know there are people far, far more intelligent than I who could probably build some sort of compensation model that makes sense but I think players of the big time sports should be paid.

Out of curiosity though, why do you think one and done ruined the college game? I think it's far from ideal but atleast we have some great talent playing for a year rather than seeing it go straight to the draft.
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