Yeah I agree, who need to pay coaches? What exactly do they DO anyway? Sit on the bench and sip their water while collecting fat stacks of cash.
I think we should adopt BLSS concept and just turn the whole thing into AAU. Pay dem boyz. Somebody's dad or uncle can probably coach.
This is the way.
*inserts looking eyes emoji*
Quite flattering that you think the President of the NCAA proposed "my concept." But he didn't ask my opinion, unfortunately.
Like it or not, both players and coaches are gonna have to get paid. If you all have better ideas as to where that money is gonna come from, I'm all ears.
Joking aside, schools from small markets and smaller conferences are absolutely going to struggle with this. I'm of the opinion that's it's better to pay for the coach - who hopefully has the ability to find hidden gems as recruits who don't command top dollar, or finds creative ways to raise money to afford the occasional splurge. This is the best chance of continued and sustained success, though it will absolutely have years where it just doesn't work out.
Just like small market baseball teams. Sometimes they collect enough prospects and guys not on big deals to put a contender on the field and they make a run here and there, but the flip side of that coin is the seasons when they have to jettison all that talent to try and collect the next wave of cheap talent, and some of those seasons will be bleak. Take the average on the aggregate and they don't/can't compete year to year.
This will get exacerbated in the wild wild west of NCAA.
If you truly want my opinion, it's for all the non-P5's to say screw it and completely break apart to form a "new" student-athlete focused NCAA while the P5's become the minor league, pro feeders, totally focused on big money TV contracts, recruits, coaches and facilities that would bankrupt everyone else that they all want to be anyway.
Let Alabama and Georgia and O$U play for minor league trophies every year and let's let the rest of us get back to college sports.