I am not sure how this is going to work out, but hopefully it will end the farcical idea of the student athlete. A majority of football and basketball players at the top tier schools are either too stupid, or too ill-prepared for college. Maybe this ruling will help to end the pretense that these are real college students.
Also, when the schools start spending big money on the talent it will likely create more jealousy and discord within the team. What third string quarterback doesn’t think he deserves to be the starter? What happens when the starter is getting big money and the third stringer is receiving relatively peanuts in comparison? What happens when a star player is offered more money to transfer to another college?
The best outcome of this decision may be that it brings about the end of the NCAA and a majority of the school sponsored athletic programs. I have long advocated that athletics be separated from middle schools, high schools and colleges in favor of club sports. Club sports do exist for elementary kids, and they used to exist for adult sports. Colleges could still sponsor clubs, but the players could go to trade school, or work as an apprentice, or go to college. The phony pretense of the student athlete could thus end.
In theory, college sports should still exists but it should be regular folks playing it not studs like we are seeing nowadays.