http://sports.yahoo.com/news/ncaa-still ... ncaab.html
Good read even tho it is scary as to what could eventually happen. All non-revenue D3 or club?

"The fact is we have student-athletes in all sorts of sports that, if you apply any form of value to their labor, you cannot pay football players and not pay gymnasts just because the football player has the blessing of an adoring public," Bowlsby continued. "That's the only difference. There are a lot of student athletes that are worthy."

Doesn't this beg the question: Why do you pay the football and basketball coaches more than the soccer and track coaches? And why do you pay them more than the chair of the history department? Why are athletes the only people on campus who are compensated based on the amount of labor they put in and not on the result of that labor?

I can't help but wonder, too, as to how it would be decided to whom and how much players would be compensated. Would all football players on the roster be compensated the same or just the "stars." What would the schools on the lower echelon of the football revenue chain do if they suddenly had a media darling on the squad?

Interesting article. We're only talking about the BCS-isk conf/teams. The rest will not (cannot) play this game. So for these BCS conf/teams, I imagine we will see revenue sharing by the entire group or by conference, so all teams in these conferences are covered. They will have compensation structures that pay differently according to sport and possibly minor differences within a sport (e.g., year, starter, etc.). All will have health coverage and educational assurances. Something like a military pay structure. Non-revenue athletes will not receive as much (if any) but the programs will still be subsidized.

All conferences/teams outside the BCS conf will be forced to fall back because it would be financially impossible to stay with them. There will not be any more hope (not much before) that this group can (or should) compete with the big boys with recruits or on the field.

So, we will end up with a semi-professional development league with revenue being driving by TV, and we will end up with the rest returning to actually being college athletics programs with revenue being driven by attendance.

With the race to keep up with the jones over, these true college athletic programs can return to reasonable spending on athletics and reasonable athletic student fees. And be true college athletic programs with a focus on academics before athletics. I may be in the minority here, but in my view I welcome this outcome. Of course, how it actually plays out remains to be determined.