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FWST: TCU’s Patterson on Fair Pay to Play Act: Amateur athletics go away if bidding wars start
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<blockquote data-quote="Wexahu" data-source="post: 2768837" data-attributes="member: 72863"><p>Ultimately they won't do fine because those teams need everyone else to maximize their potential. Gradually everyone will just lose interest in the whole product and nobody ends up better off. I'm about as anti-socialism as you can get but in order to have successful sports leagues there needs to be a little socialism for the sake of competitive balance.</p><p></p><p>If the NFL, NBA and MLB let every player farm himself out to the highest bidder every year and there were no draft and no salary cap (in other words a totally "free" market) the leagues wouldn't work. Rules have to be put in place in order for every team to have a chance to compete on somewhat of a level playing field, and those rules are different depending on the circumstances. Allowing "pay for likeness" in college sports would absolutely be the end of 90% of programs ever having the chance to compete. Or even the hope of ever competing That's a fact. Whatever the fallout of that is needs to considered in all these proposals.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Wexahu, post: 2768837, member: 72863"] Ultimately they won't do fine because those teams need everyone else to maximize their potential. Gradually everyone will just lose interest in the whole product and nobody ends up better off. I'm about as anti-socialism as you can get but in order to have successful sports leagues there needs to be a little socialism for the sake of competitive balance. If the NFL, NBA and MLB let every player farm himself out to the highest bidder every year and there were no draft and no salary cap (in other words a totally "free" market) the leagues wouldn't work. Rules have to be put in place in order for every team to have a chance to compete on somewhat of a level playing field, and those rules are different depending on the circumstances. Allowing "pay for likeness" in college sports would absolutely be the end of 90% of programs ever having the chance to compete. Or even the hope of ever competing That's a fact. Whatever the fallout of that is needs to considered in all these proposals. [/QUOTE]
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