If people are willing to admit that the recent basketball "revelations" are rampant across the NCAA, especially within the huge revenue generating sports of basketball & football, than any change to bring sunlight to these deals and end the hypocrisy of the "amateurism" model should be welcome.

The financial stakes are too high for sneaker companies, coaches, boosters, agents, and others not to use cash to help curry favor in landing an athlete. The options going-forward are to either de-emphasize sports to take the stakes (money) down, pretend the current system is working and make no changes, OR allow athletes some sort of revenue stream so that they can also benefit from the fruits of their labor. There are lots of ways to address the issue (i'm partial to a system where players have something equivalent to the NFLPA collectively bargaining for them, agreeing to some broad revenue split and having the proceeds placed in trust funds for players to be accessed once eligibility has been exhausted or they go to the next level) but reading these comments, it feels like a lot of the pushback is driven by fans of G5 teams who believe this will tilt the playing field. My question to them however is isn't the playing field already wildly tilted?

Money will find it's way to players in a system with this much money at stake, I'll never believe otherwise. The thing we need to figure out is how do we create a more transparent, less exploitative system that helps both athletes and universities continue to grow the pie. Sports aren't bad and money certainly isn't bad but the amateurism model flat out doesn't work in this environment, its a farce.