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Message: [QUOTE="Ward, post: 1752620, member: 1958"] I agree, it's a good thing to help some of these kids get a piece of the revenue stream. The argument isn't if it will be good for those players or not, everyone agrees it will be great for them. The argument is by setting up that sort of system you would be creating a situation that inevitably would become very much a tiered "haves" and "have nots". It would drastically change football and men's basketball and the competitive landscape currently in place. Again, it's great for the kids who will be able to benefit but it would have a huge impact on other parts of the sport that help prop up the popularity to begin with. [B]I'll selfishly use SU as an example to show the flaw in that plan. Ohio St, undergrad enrollment is 64,000, Georgia is 35,000, Alabama 36,000 etc. SU has 15,000 undergrads many who move out of the local area. A wealthy alumnus or one who is a business owner living in Los Angeles, Maryland, Florida, Texas isn't going to have an SU player do a local commercial/autograph signing for them across the country. Ohio State, Georgia, Tennessee, IU, Alabama have a much larger pool of alumni, plenty of who are reasonably local to the school's campus where the particular sport is relevant, and would have at least 2-4x the number of opportunities for those players to cash in on endorsement opportunities. [/B] [B]Why as a high school kid am I considering a school that can offer me a fraction of what another school can in endorsements during my peak "cash in" years? The draw of of "prestige" at SU basketball instead of a Georgia quickly goes away after a few recruiting cycles when the talent distribution starts washing out some of these other schools and the schools like Georgia and Alabama have big years with the new competitive advantage to attract talent. (Bolded for the TL;DR crowd - even though still probably TL)[/B] The kids should be paid but that would have huge, huge impacts on other parts of the sport. [/QUOTE]

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