I was at Battle for Atlantis a few years ago and Duke was there. HUGE yachts stationed at the slips at the resort flying Duke flags. What is coach K making? 10mil a year?
If you’re gonna have payments to athletes, you will need some way to have a semblance of an even playing field.
I know, you’re gonna say, but it isn’t an even playing field now. No, but there is a semblance of one. Based on last year’s testimony, everyone knows Clemson, Arizona, Kansas, etc. are secretly paying (or arranging) players. But we can pretend. Once it’s in the open, there’s no pretending.
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What about transfers? If a school is gonna pay a player and develop him (or her) for a year or two, they will want the payoff of his junior and senior years. Will schools be allowed to put clauses in the contracts to prevent transfer? Or maybe the school he’s transferring would have to pay the school he’s leaving.