This will be a free for all and the NCAA won't even attempt to enforce any loose form of rules. I mean, any rule they put in place will likely have easy loopholes and won't be worth attempting to enforce.
The entire reason the NCAA made rules like this in the first place, is because schools were aware exactly what it would be like if they weren't on the books. This is now professional sports folks, and the universities will now decide to pay these players however - and whenever - they want.
It's going to be chaos.
Again, what's with this cryptic stuff? It's going to be chaos - okay, what does that mean? What does that look like? Right now, the schools can't actually pay the players, but even if they could, what's the problem there?
In 2001, the AD budget was 19,917,249, and total budgeted salaries were 7,156,957.
In 2010, it was 40,084,014 and total budgeted staff and salaries were 14,381,894.
In 2021, the AD budget is 85,004,014 and the staff salaries are 32,019,714.
What we're seeing here is over the last 20 years, Revenues have doubled every 10 years, salaries for the AD have doubled every 10 years, and the players have been paid basically roughly the same thing, tuition, room and board.
This might be all well and good for some people. Changes to this might be bad for ISU. But the fact is, when these kinds of dollars are thrown around it's absolutely unsustainable to expect the status quo to remain the same whether we like it or not.
