NEW: In a victory for college athletes, SCOTUS unanimously invalidates a portion of the NCAA's "amateurism" rules. The court says the NCAA can no longer bar colleges from providing athletes with education-related benefits such as free laptops or paid post-graduate internships.
I’m with you. As much as I think NCAA rules for pay are not in the best interest of the student it will only help the rich to get richer. If you’re not a blue blood school, recruiting just got a lot more difficult. I don’t see how any school could compete with the dollars Alabama generates and could pay to its student athletes. Seems like the advantage the elite schools will have might push us to another division for schools.
Title IX is going to have some say in pay. It might be better from a parity standpoint to equalize pay and funnel it through the NCAA as an organization.
I didn’t find more recent data than 2013 but this is what the top sellers look like. Top sellers equals top players paired with TV eyeballs and geography balance shrivels fast. This probably can’t be solved without an act of Congress and fights in court.
Note this is not complete. The Zona schools and Utah are highest ranked. Oregon and USC aren’t listed. I think it’s sales through a particular organization. My guess is an industry level list is behind a paywall that only companies would pay for