HighSeas
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Some of you are misunderstanding what this does. This isn't about Billy Bob's Motors "paying" a high school recruit $200,000 to appear on a billboard, or Toothless Tom's Autobody Shop slipping bags into a 50K sports car for a five-star.
It's about a player being paid for his autograph. Or Nike paying a player to appear in an advertisement. Appearance fees. Etc. etc. It's going to be much more player-centric than school-centric (i.e., Trevor Lawrence is going to get paid more than Shaq Quarterman).
All things being equal, and this being a free market, I think players are going to look at this and say "I can go play in a major media market in Miami (or LA, etc.) and have more opportunity to market myself, or I can go to Tuscaloosa/Athens/Ann Arbor."
Miami has a metro area of about 6 million people. If you don't think that will matter if this legislation passes and is accepted as part of the NCAA, you need to pick up an economics text book.
This guy gets it. The schools that will benefit are the ones that have a significant brand and market for players to profit off their likeness. Miami and USC have much greater marketability assuming the right player(s) comes along to captivate the audience. For example, Duke Johnson on a 10+ win Miami team would have substantial branding and sponsorship opportunities that stretch way beyond the "goodwill" of Joe Schmo the Leghumper stan's car dealership or Kyle Korn's Kar repairs in Bagaland.
Also the bidding war angle is overstated in most cases. Lots of kids would accept less to stay in Miami, and the pay difference wouldn't be that substantial. Hypothetically speaking $50K is a lot more appealing than 0, but $100K vs $50K isn't as drastic. The important thing is that their expenses would be covered throughout college. Miami is always going to lose out on the kids that have families/handlers who want the immediate payout and benefits, so nothing changes there.
I'm sure the battered-dog syndrome fans will gloss over all this and continue to whine about irrelevant data points like SEC teams make more revenue or individual boosters can outright pay them (how is this any different from the current system?). Those fans have been trained to be miserable and negative is the only way they know how to think.