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[QUOTE="Townie72, post: 2992698, member: 780"]
When you keep stretching a rubber band, eventually it breaks.

Allowing players to profit from their images seems only fair. But everybody knows --- or should know --- it'll open the door to more abuse.

Colleges and Universities are addicted to the revenue, even thought many are embarrassed by how the sausage is actually being made. Big Time sports continues to morph into the schools having sports franchises as almost free-standing businesses instead of how sports started out.

Keep on stretching the limits and I think we'll start to see schools opting out, starting with the Ivies and more selective academic schools. The larger schools will dominate even more than they do today along with those schools that are without scruples.

The NCAA --- which is really the College President's --- has tried mightily to put a brake on it by limiting roster sizes to try and achieve more parity. But its failing.

What we will end up with is a system of de facto college owned-sports franchise that is less and less connected to the schools.

And these franchises ought to be taxed on 100% of the revenue. It's no different than if SU owned a grocery store in Camillus..

The golden goose can be killed. Boxing used to be a huge sport in the US, until it gained a reputation of being corrupt.
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