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Message: [QUOTE="CL82, post: 4777477, member: 44"] You may be right, I may be crazy, but it just might be a lunatic ... that's needed to fix this insanity. Again, my posts theoretical. I don't know if it can be fixed at this point in time. But, if the NCAA not sat on its hands, a workable resolution was possible. We all make choices. That's kind of how life works. The rational basis for the distinction would be the desire of NCAA organizations to provide a benefit for student athletes. They can cap the criteria at anything they'd like. Because "rich people" are not a protected class. Sure, I guess you could, but why would you since there's no risk of tampering or undue influence with inheritance. Was your account hacked by Nelson? Because that's a Nelsonian level red herring there. ;) And yet it's survived just fine in the pre-NIL world, right? Well, state law doesn't govern the association of private organizations provided that they are non-discriminatory. In fact, the rate of free association is a constitutionally protected right, but you know that right? The NCAA inviting states to come up with their own rules open the door to the problem you're talking about. And they just come up with their own rules they would've been accepted quietly and everyone would've moved on. Can a not-for-profit association of academic can be found to have violated antitrust rules for deciding not to compensate athletes? If so, someone better let the Ivy League know. People spout about that all the time. I'm not convinced. The more significant risk, in my opinion, is that the schools that want to exploit the system pick up their ball and go home. It would be a great excuse for the P2 to say well we're going be going our own way so that we can provide student athletes with the opportunity to earn a little money... In any event, my post was just a thought exercise. Too often people say that things are "insoluble" and then bitch and moan rather than firing off a neuron or two to think about what a solution might look like. As I said in my original post, it was possible to structure some thing that would actually work. Whether the current mess we have could actually be corrected at this point in time, I'm not so sure. [/QUOTE]

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