There has to a cap going forward

I think there should be a cap 10 million. The legal part is you're not limiting college athletes of how much they can make. You're limited the collectives on how much they can spend.

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You're limited the collectives on how much they can spend.

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And who do you think has this authority?

If you cap the players then you have to cap the coaches and then cap how much the universities can make from TV. It's not happening. The entire point is that for a century the universities profited billions while giving the players room, board and a scholarship. Hence the billion $ penalty levied against the universities.

And as the poster above asked, how is a collective cap gonna stop a billionaire from paying a kid anything they want and call it an endorsement? You can't cap what a player can make on their name, image and likeness. That's the entire point of the lawsuit. It cannot be fixed under the current model and good luck getting thousands of college kids to organize, form a union and agree to terms. And even further good luck getting the universities to break themselves in order to pay for all of it. They'd drop the sport in an instant. All of them.

Boosters will not keep recklessly spending money on 17 year olds.

If they spend that kind of money the ROI is a championship. I do not care how rich you are. Maybe Michigan, A&M, and Texas will be fine. Bama will be ok for longer because they want to keep success going (even though they haven’t won since 2017). But Bama isn’t rich, and again, boosters aren’t going to spend money indefinitely for no ROI.

If BU turns out to be a Ryan Perriloux type, they’ll eventually say frick it. NIL is still new. Guys are willing to throw money at it. Give it a couple seasons before they figure out that only one team wins a natty each year.

This is America jack. Trying to cap the market to make your team compete is communism lol

If NIL is what they want to do fine. Just open the commitment date to whenever (get rid of only 2 dates). That'll naturally cap it.

Only way you get a cap is by having the players form a union and go through collective bargaining. Otherwise, you run afoul of the SCOTUS rulings that gave way to situation you now have in place. With th eplayers now in the drivers' seat, not sure they would agree to unionize.

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I think there should be a cap 10 million. The legal part is you're not limiting college athletes of how much they can make. You're limited the collectives on how much they can spend

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The originally proposed House settlement had a limit on collective spending, and Judge Wilken rejected it for that reason. From an antitrust law standpoint, limiting how much someone can spend is no different than limiting how much someone can make.

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A cap won't work. There's always a way around rules

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It'll work if it's done thoughtfully via collective bargaining. Pro teams are not allowed to guarantee NIL compensation or endorsement money from third parties, and no team tries it because it is strictly enforced and heavily penalized.