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[QUOTE="Chuck, post: 3279829, member: 1646"]
The reason that we all say "nothing will happen" is because nothing ever happens.  If I'm Kansas, I fight this to the end.  The only reason NOT to fight it is if it starts hurting recruiting, but that doesn't seem likely.  If I'm a top recruit that wants to go to Kansas, why wouldn't I?  Has any top recruit gotten screwed by going to a school that was in the NCAA's cross hairs (other than UConn).

I personally think we'll see a "from now on..." level-set.  It'll be like the steroid era of baseball.  Maybe fans will put an asterisk next to some names, but the NCAA will just chalk it up to "everyone was doing it, and it wouldn't be fair to current players and fans to enforce the rule against everyone."  Of course the "everyone" is the big schools that have the NCAA captive.

What I wonder if payments are still happening at an institutional (sneaker) level.  I wouldn't be surprised if we see some movement in recruiting away from institutional cheaters (getting money from Nike/Adidas), back to old-school booster cheaters.  That may shift some money-seeking talent (or maybe it won't).
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