BYU jumps into the playing players realm.

[jvquarterback]

I've been thinking how this might effect transfers. I bet we see more teams blocking transfers to teams that pay more. It may also light a fire under some athletes to graduate ASAP to get to a school that pays more.

It will have a huge impact on poor kids. I bet a difference of $200 per month would have kept Tayo at BYU so he could help his sister out. He also would have been more likely to have stayed in school at TCU given his situation.

[scott715]

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The downside of COA and the games are about to begin. Maybe the NCAA needs to come out and cap the max that an athlete can receive.

[snoscythe]

What's interesting about the current pay-to-play scheme/regs, is that it is essentially capped at cost of attendance. In practice, that should mean that even if BYU pays more than Utah, the net to the player after a year should be the same-- ($Y-$Y) = $0 at BYU, and ($U-$U) =$0 at Utah.

It's a bit hard to fudge the cost of attendance figures--those are reported to the federal govt for Pell Grant and other student aid calculations and are compiled and tracked by a department entirely different than the Athletic Departments. Where the pay to play will get crazy is when they dissociate it from the semi-independent cost of attendance figures.

[jvquarterback]

What's interesting about the current pay-to-play scheme/regs, is that it is essentially capped at cost of attendance. In practice, that should mean that even if BYU pays more than Utah, the net to the player after a year should be the same-- ($Y-$Y) = $0 at BYU, and ($U-$U) =$0 at Utah.

It's a bit hard to fudge the cost of attendance figures--those are reported to the federal govt for Pell Grant and other student aid calculations and are compiled and tracked by a department entirely different than the Athletic Departments. Where the pay to play will get crazy is when they dissociate it from the semi-independent cost of attendance figures.

COA is hogwash. Schools should just pay what they can afford without any government subsidies.

Also an athlete on scholarship should be able to make money any way they want to just like someone on a music scholarship can play professionally while they are at school.

Read this article on UNR, which won't be paying COA scholarships this year. UNLV is only paying football and basketball athletes a COA stipend. I wonder how that will fly with title ix.

UNM, UNR and UH won't be paying the COA stipend this year. Anyone who thinks BYU should go back to that is nuts.