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[QUOTE="Waltdods, post: 2584627, member: 2932"]
It isn’t obvious to me that your speculation above about what would happen if you allowed more compensation is right. There is already a massive resource imbalance in college basketball (and football). The teams that have the resources use them - on coaches, on practice facilities, on chartered planes, etc. This obviously already has massive implications for competition. (No one seriously thinks central Michigan can compete with Alabama in football for example even though they are both nominally playing by the same compensation rules.) Its just that the resources are being spent every way other than by directly going to the players.

These rules don’t equal the playing field, they don’t keep money out of the sport, they don’t prevent many people from making millions of dollars. What they do is keep the money away from the 18-22 year olds who would otherwise have it were it not for these rules.

(I do believe in a somewhat milder version of your argument - that part of the value of college sports is the veneer of amateurism. But before we start talking about what that means and how to preserve it we need to honestly confront what the system is today.)
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