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The problem is you won’t get good players to sign a deal like that when others are giving them large annual payments from the start.

The problem is you won’t get good players to sign a deal like that when others are giving them large annual payments from the start.

The problem already is, you lose those good players after paying them a ton for one or two seasons when they leave for those rich schools. What good is it spending a ton of money building up a kid to be a good RB/QB/etc, then he leaves before he's even really played on the team, after a redshirt year and a 95% bench season waiting for the senior star to graduate?

Either way, the rich schools can easily buy the best team they can, and everyone else will end up with scraps. At least if the lesser schools tier their payouts (or include a payback clause), they won't waste a bunch of money on a good player who easily gets stolen by schools with more money once he's trained up. And if a lot of schools did this, then only the best 'students' wouldn't be stuck with it.