I would personally be open to that as a strong step of progress.
But the breakdown in your example regarding sports leagues not being free markets is that individual franchises are enabled to compete with each other’s compensation packages in the market for talent. Apply that to the NCAA…do you think Michigan could put together a stronger financial package than most other schools if it was unfettered in doing so? That dynamic alone would cause a swift rebalancing of the value that student athletes create toward the student athletes and would go a massive way toward creating balance in that ecosystem.
Yes, I understand Title IX is a big challenge (probably prohibitive) to such a plan, which is why I support plans that don’t involve the compensation coming from universities, but obviously professional leagues don’t have that issue either, so it needs to be addressed when using pro leagues to compare.
One solution is to establish a super football conference that operates outside of NCAA. The new league can set its own rules, and the players can earn wage/salary regulated by the league but not scholarship, but they are required to maintain good academic standing to represent the school. Since they are not on scholarship and use their wages to pay for their tuition, the universities can also benefit by cutting down scholarships mandated by Title IX.
Basketball can probably stay with the current framework with some helps by NBA, and moves towards the baseball model.
So with the announcement that UConn is banned from postseason play for two years, hypothetically any upperclassmen could transfer and play right away, correct?
Christian Vital and Alterique Gilbert are both high-level guards that I’d love Michigan to target. Vital played at St. Thomas More Prep (where Adrien Nunez played, although I don’t think there was any overlap), I wonder if there’s a connection there at all
Is UConn actually banned from postseason play? The articles I’ve read note that they are on probation for 2 years (among other scholarship and recruiting limitations), but none of the articles I’ve read mention a postseason ban?
In other news Juwan Howard has mentioned Franz Wagner in a press conference. For that UM will be eliminated from all NCAA activities for the next 100 years! A full internal/external/FBI/CIA investigation s pending!
“This will not stand…this aggression against the NCAA will not stand”…The Big Lebowski
Well, if true, this is an interesting development…and perhaps a sign that the NCAA will be more vigilant with rules violations?
Attorney Tom Mars, who emerged in recent years as a powerful force in college athletics, will become an investigator with the NCAA’s new Complex Case Unit, multiple sources told Yahoo Sports.
Suspension of the head coach from the first three regular-season games of the 2019-20 season.
A three-year show-cause order for the former associate head coach. During that period, any NCAA member school employing him must restrict him from any athletically related duties unless it shows cause why the restrictions should not apply.
A vacation of records in which the men’s basketball student-athlete competed while ineligible. The university must provide a written report containing the contests impacted to the NCAA media coordination and statistics staff within 45 days of the public decision release.
Recruiting restrictions, including:
A reduction of six men’s basketball recruiting-person days during the 2017-18 academic year (self-imposed by the university).
A reduction of six men’s basketball recruiting-person days in April 2019 (self-imposed by the university).
A $5,000 fine, plus 1% of the men’s basketball program budget.
The NCAA came down on them like the hammer of Thor! The thunder of the NCAA’s vengeance is echoing through DePaul’s corridors like the gusts of a thousand winds!!!
