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Message: [QUOTE="oldude, post: 5294958, member: 7511"] You are complicating a simple idea. The athlete and the university execute a contract that provides a compensation arrangement which sets up a payout schedule over time. The only requirement is that the athlete has to remain at the university and play ball to receive each respective payment. Let’s drop the term buyout. Let’s call it a Golden Handcuff, Balloon payment or Bonus that an athlete earns by showing up for summer practice or forfeits if they transfer to another school. The current agreement provides for Universities to pay up to $20.5 million annually however they choose, paying it out to whichever athletes they choose to pay next year. That amount is likely to go up in future years. If you are Dawn Staley and you have only so much money to use after FB & MBB get their allowance, you’re going to do your best to tie up your core players long term. That doesn’t mean they can’t leave. It simply means that if they do they will be leaving money on the table. [/QUOTE]