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Message: [QUOTE="Cusefan95, post: 5165480, member: 173"] I suspect the NCAA felt that allowing payments to athletes had all kinds of negative impacts which is why they fought it for so long. After losing every lawsuit possible, they opted to go in a direction they knew was going to be an absolute fiasco - but which had the advantage of being fairly easily implanted immediately and would get the courts off their backs. It’s not great for college athletics right now, but I think the NCAA is either waiting for it to get so bad that they can get some breathing room to create new guidelines or for the conferences to fix it themselves. I certainly didn’t think this was going to be anything but a fiasco - but if there were people who thought all that was going to happen was kids would make money from t-shirts and celebrated the NCAA losing lawsuits, it’s an indictment on the ability of those folks to anticipate the consequences of policy changes. [/QUOTE]