Long Beach State Athletics!: End of the amateur model...

We now have a semi-professional model in college athletics but are heading towards a pure professional model where all collegiate athletes will be deemed employees and colleges will be deemed employers. Assuming that happens, I can’t see how colleges can run athletic programs with athletes who don’t receive NIL related compensation or non-scholarship athletes. If being a college athlete is deemed work which has some compensatory value, why would it matter whether your school earns a profit or not from these activities? If I work for a restaurant that isn’t making a profit, I still get paid for my “work”.

The only way I can see this working is to separate athletics from the university organization, creating an auxiliary entity (like the CSULB Foundation) that will run athletics like a business. Athletes will no longer be required to be enrolled students and will no longer receive scholarships to pay for attending classes and room & board. The athletes will likely be represented by a union to negotiate their salaries. Athletes will be hired and fired just like employees of any other business. Like minded schools with similar budgets (for salaries) will be in the same conferences (maybe the Big West could survive).

Word of caution for current and ex-athletes who are pushing for more and more compensation, you will have less and less opportunities to compete. I see your fate being similar to fast food workers who think there are no repercussions from illogical minimum pay raises. Many of those workers will lose their jobs and/or have their hours/shifts cut as we are beginning to witness.

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as has been posted, the schollie limits below could add 160 schollies! for each school with all those sports

even if for Beach it added 120,

look at it this was:
120 x $30k = $3.6 million a year (not even counting NIL)

it's simply impossible to fund this

for the P4, even if they are private and are $60k a year, that's maybe a $7.5 million a year increase, presumably coming out of Football money

it truly is unmatchable on two levels. no money, and even if one HAD the money, there are now 10,000 athletes with available schollies from the 80 or so schools getting that football money

I don't even know how Cal can deal with this, their budget is so bad, or Wash State or ORegon State, this limit change isn't going help a lot of lower tier P4s meet budget.

not sure what Beach can do, can Beach actually do full schollie's in MVB, about the last sport can compete in? and not also increase in say Beach VB

Tennis? FOURTEEN schollies????!!! wtf? there are 6 singles players, you only play 8 players, lol

how in hades did they come up with these numbers

well, enjoy what Beach has this year, it's been a slippery slope, and have hung on, just not clear how and in what way Beach and the Big West will go

I actually think there's a chance the WCC may entertain inviting 3 or 4 of the UCs into the WCC now. I'm not sure the Big West will be stable. Maybe Cal Poly & Davis will re-think to go to the Big Sky, simply because it's like-type schools with football and towns that have 100,000 population

the Big West model had held, because of keeping costs down, not sure what the model will be going forward.

outside the P4, nobody wants to get left behind, but this on top of NIL, the entire "If I"m not P4 football" model almost needs to abandon the NCAA, the NCAA is just a shell organization for the P4

MVB 4.5 18
WVB 12 18
WT 6.5 14
SB 12 25
SOC 14 28
TK 12.6 45
WTK 18 45
BVB 6 19
MBB 13 15
WBB 15 15
BB 11.7 34
MWP 4.5 24
WWP 8 24