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The original was posted on /r/cfb by /u/jonstark19 on 2024-04-16 22:41:35.
Article (paywall):
Emerson’s pitch is essentially this: first, he notes that employment of players and a CBA might be coming, but this article is looking at alternatives to employee status.
Second, Emerson suggests that schools set a payment structure for scholarship players that increase over time:
Let’s say you’re a football player, and your revenue-sharing payment from a school is $50,000 annually. That’s just an estimate but a reasonable starting point: For a football team’s full roster of 85 players, it would total up to $4.25 million. And since football scholarships usually take up about one-third of an athletic department’s scholarships, it’s getting close to that $10-15 million that athletic directors are starting to set aside. If the football player stays until his sophomore year, his payment goes up. Maybe up to $75,000? And if he stays for his junior year, it goes up again, maybe to $100,000? And so on.
Essentially, Emerson is suggesting that a player’s compensation gets increased and rewarded the longer they stay there, incentivizing players to stay with schools. If you transfer, you revert back to the baseline $50,000 for freshman. This also does not include NIL deals.