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This is literally what teams used to do before scholarship limits. Alabama would sign a kid they didn’t even want just because Auburn wanted him. Then the kid would just get buried in the depth chart because the NCAA made it really hard for a kid to transfer.

What about affluent athletes who do get full ride scholarships like Nesta Silvera or Michael Irvin Jr? I mean, I agree that there are certain people who definitely don't need the scholarship but just because you're not poor, it doesn't mean you haven't earned a scholarship.

Lol most non revenue sports have to split up their scholarships into partials. Only football and basketball players get full athletic scholarships. But there’s a ton of football and basketball players who aren’t at big schools who 100% are relying upon on that scholarship. The guys playing for...

Technically, tax dollars aren’t supposed to go directly to athletics but when a university is publicly subsidized, it allows them to move other money that normally wouldn’t have gone there, to the athletic department. The highest paid public employee in many states is a college football coach.

I’m for NIL deals and players profiting off their own likeness but I think this is too far. You’re making a huge mess for the overwhelming majority of college athletes who are there BECAUSE of the scholarship, not in spite of it. This comes from the line of thinking that University athletic...