Until they go to the NFL, but yeah, just like the league, they would have 5 year contracts, probably with some kind of team option for the 5th year in which the program can choose to pick up or not.
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The players have all the power right now. Which isnt great for the schools.
I guess Day is just brain storming out loud here since he is at the level where new talent transfers in and very few players transfer out.
Campbell throwing a fit over TTU potentially having to play one Friday night game is certainly something...guy loves having his name in the news.
He is going to get TTU into the SEC by not taking a dime of money, just buying his way in cause he one of them good ole rich white boys
For it to happen would almost certainly require some federal legislation that provided for an anti-trust exemption which would also put some restrictions on the schools.
At this point you would be telling the players that they are no longer "student-athletes" (as if that has been the case for the elite level players anyways) and that they are choosing to be professional atheletes who happen to represent a school associated with their football (or basketball or hockey, etc.) team.
Some likely provisions would be guaranteeing salaries for 5 years barring violations of the players contract (criminal conviction, hard drug usage, etc.) Also a longer term guarantee for health issues related to being a player. 10 years on knees, ankles, shoulders, etc. maybe even on cardiac conditions and other things potentially linked to weight gain and other physical stresses involved in being a high level athlete.
I could also see the draft allowing some degree of flexibility. Either allow a player to be drafted by multiple teams say 2-4, and then choosing among them or allowing the player himself to place geographic or academic restrictions on his draft status. This might look like a the multiple team draft with one one school outside his geographic zone or being able to limit draft eligibility to schools that have functioning programs for a specific major or close.
Even with a draft an allowance for some player movement such as allowing a free transfer after the 2nd or 3rd year in a program and/or allowing one transfer any time but with the destination school having to give up significant compensation including cash and or draft picks.
They would also have to figure out how to handle players coming in from schools outside of the superconference and how would eligibility for those players work. Would playing for a school outside count against eligibility, would those players be subject to the draft or free agents or potentially draftable up until they reach the three year mark then free agents? Would the federal legislation require financial compensation for these players?
All of this except that specific to the federal legislation would have to be included in a collective bargaining agreement.
