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Message: [QUOTE="pokercuse08, post: 4878551, member: 6535"] The obvious system here, in my opinion, is to bring all the NIL money in house with the schools and report it through the NCAA, and probably make it publicly available info. The schools can solicit donations for it from boosters, and that could be made uncapped, but there need to be records on it. Then when Football Factory College signs a kid away through the transfer portal from We Don't Have Oil Money University, they have to pay them a hefty transfer fee - I would propose X% of the value of the NIL money, where X = the % of snaps that kid played on his side of the ball for WDHOMU. Require that money to be paid out in NIL by WDHOMU within, say, four years. This ensures that the money is going to the players, but also allows WDHOMU to benefit from recruiting and developing players, and to save up that money for a few years and pick the right year to go all-in. It won't be real parity because Football Factory College and Football State University and University of Gridiron all get to go spend unlimited funds buying the best free agents, but at least We Don't Have Oil Money University and We At Least Pretend Our Athletes Go to Class College can compete once or twice a decade if they can find good coaches and run a good program with the money they do have and then save up and try to contend cyclically - which means every year a few of them will be good. I'm all for gender equality, but they have to find a way to not make it this even distribution between football/basketball and non-revenue sports. I get that it is sexist and inherently unfair that by far the most money in sports is in mens' sports, at the pro and college levels, but it's also insane to pay athletes in non-revenue sports millions of dollars - and that would make it harder for smaller schools to compete in both categories. If it has to be even, Texas A&M is going to fielding the best Equestrian and Volleyball teams ever assembled and paying them millions, just so they can pay their football players the most. [/QUOTE]

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