Agree!

I may have to go take a peak at the 'Five Smiths' case... again @Shooklyn, and what a name for an NFL Franchise.
When Robert Lattinville and I wrote that, agents with more information on coaching salary were beating NFL teams on deals and teams wanted to even the info gap.

That's a solution for sure Allan Konopka 💉💉💉
We both are education favoring.
The implementation of if could quickly turn into a horizontal restraint at least regarding a clawback or buyout.
Echoing Ralph D. Russo is coaches complain about transfers but also benefit coming and going.

It could be an award winner and a brilliant book, Jeff Pearlman because Simpson at every stage of his life is both such a mirror or harbinger of our culture in America, but you need to be feeling your inner David Maraniss or Taylor Branch and know the story ends darkly.

First time I've tweeted an 18 year old Marquette NSLI journal article but touches on exactly what you are discussing Shooklyn
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I wrote a law review article once saying this is how law firms maintain cost control and still attract top talent and avoid antitrust liability they publish or share their own data and outcomes.

This is a great post Shooklyn

This mirrors the early days of free agency in pro sports back in 1970s. When mediocre players made big $.

Eventually market understanding will catch up and/or is either naturally (innovation) or artificially restrained (CBA).

And that is the problem of using a recruiting mindset or worse yet a recruiting website mindset in a version of free agency. 3 rules 1) its cheaper to keep em 2) value the player at your school not on what others pay 3) find sources of less in demand but good players.

There is some of that but the reality is player asks are inflated and many times empty bluffs with far more players in portal than scholarships available. So some will get paid some will be left out.

Ironic if you think I am condoning collusion given I successfully sued the NCAA on antirust grounds this year!
And I head some things that would be.
But schools and coaches looking to act rationally and with care in an irrational market is not collusive. It’s the opposite.

Neal Fink Robert Boland Yep, that sounds like what they were doing at the Final Four by his own words.

And that value is often driven up by perceptions of scarcity and need rather than the actual value of the player's contribution.
No player has precisely the same value to every team. Suggesting more evaluation introspection on fit, need and system.

Actually quite the opposite. Mit Winter

I am favoring coaches/schools who figure out how the market works and create authentic approaches that resist following the crowd and use resources most efficiently. Like the Steelers, Belichick, Joe Banner's Eagles, the Spurs.

I wouldn't deny that at all. @wintersportslaw
But coaches and boosters use recruitment principles to what is essentially an potentially auction market which is a recipe for disaster.
Belichick, Pop, Billy Beane, will tell you the biggest payrolls not necessary. Ralph D. Russo

Campanella had quite a run, Dickey and Berra where awesome before my time.
But of the catchers I've seen in 50 plus years, Bench is the best all around combo.

That would be true Mit Winter but the Yankees don't always win the WS, despite having the highest payroll. All pro sports dynasties or even long runs of excellence in recent years have controlled player cost/efficiency which I think is Ralph D. Russo's point.

Nothing the NCAA can do.
There is something the coach could do, say no, and tell the player's rep that there is a place where they pay players more than $1 million dollars per year, its the NBA.
Not overpaying was the talk of my time at the Final Four.

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