They used to have something like that when the salary cap was $0. Nobody was supposed to profit off themselves. Boosters weren’t supposed to offer kids money. It didn’t work. Boosters were willing to pay for athletes, sometimes $100s of thousands for certain kids. I don’t think having some imaginary number or ‘salary cap’ would stop those same boosters from doing the exact same thing.
NIL - Yay or Nay
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Doesn't seem feasible. I'm not sure how that would come to be or where it would get its authority. One of the big legal threats against the NCAA revolves around schools working together to artificially set limits on compensation. So any governing body instilling a salary cap would not likely be one sanctioned by the schools, as that would open them up to legal action. And if the governing body isn't run by the schools, then what power would it really have?
The other thing that is lost in this suggestion is that there are plenty of schools that don't really have an issue with the way that NIL is playing out, and have little incentive to agree to any kind of salary cap. And even if they were amenable to a cap, it wouldn't be one that schools like Iowa State or Oregon State would find palatable. If salary cap that the SEC wants is higher than Iowa State can ever hope to get to, then it doesn't really matter if there's a cap or not. The effect is the same.
