re: APU - where do you stand?

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Fine, start paying players. Then allow the conferences to impose fines for late hits and such. Also, discipline cases who get shitcanned? They have to repay whatever they earned. Athletes who aren't performing? Re-negotiation time. Team's not winning? Re-negotiation time. You don't produce, you don't get paid, welcome to the real world.

Plus, player money has to be paid from program revenue - no fair putting taxpayers on the line.

If these guys want it to be a straight up business, they'll probably find out very quickly that they were better off the other way, especially when the number of programs drastically contracts, and far fewer of them get to play.

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All good points.....I haven't thought about contraction but that is a very realistic possibility....I heard 2 guys on NPR last week who have a book out about this subject (wonder how much involved they were in this APU thing?) and according to them there aren't but 30 or so CFB programs in the country that are profitable, and even fewer basket ball programs. The rest are breaking even or losing money. There would no doubt be a lot fewer schools playing football if they were losing even more money. I suppose it would be possible to do away with scholarships at those schools and still play with true student athletes but that brings up other issues like fewer opportunities for kids with some talent but no money and of course you would have to have a sanctioning body that was effective or the cheating would be unreal. Good points.....I think the reduction in spots alone would be enough to make all but the most exceptional players forget about the APU thing....