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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Buckaineer" data-source="post: 132026936" data-attributes="member: 1428007">I'd say you have no concept of how economics works.But let's look at your premise.Free market principles.  You are applying that to what a school wants to pay a player (of course).  What about the worth the ATHLETE sees for themselves as their value?  You've conveniently left that off.  But regardless, NO every school is not free to determine what it will pay each player.  Schools under the current set up CANNOT PAY players.  The NCAA allows only (as mentioned) a relatively small stipend depending on the state and school in addition to the on paper only transfers of things within a university which do not affect the athletes pocketbook whatsoever.If you are speaking of how it might be if the players received their worth, as with any position, certain things are provided such as materials or tools with which to do your job, a place to do it, etc..  I mean a school could tell these athletes they aren't going to pay for books, lodging, etc. but you can bet they won't get anyone to attend their school if so.  And above that the NCAA provides that certain things are contained within a scholarship.  Right now things are done per NCAA rules regarding scholarships and food, room and board are provided within a scholarship but the student athlete doesn't get money and then pay it, its just paper transfers within each university from dept. to dept.Now again, the more you can offer a student athlete in a hypothetical situation, then you are more likely to gain the services of the best athletes and also to retain their services.  But I would advocate for there to be a pay structure similar to the NFL system. as far as base pay  i.e. starters recieve a certain amt per position, next in a certain amount and so forth and so on.  Paid not by the schools, but by the NCAA which receives a certain amount from the conferences for this.  Then, each school participates in a draft of some sort to gain the services.  Therefore Alabama can't pay more than Cincinnati, and the same few schools can't be preselected by the networks to acquire ALL of the top players.  There could be some minimal service requirement, of say one season before a player could transfer and also a certain number of transfers per student athlete.  But certainly not a one sided absolute shut out of revenue sharing as exists currently.All of college football would benefit-but some people pocketing large sums would possibly have to take a reduction.</blockquote>

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