http://www.grantland.com/story/_/id/7177921/the-beginning-end-ncaaThis debate has kind of gotten lost amongst the discussion of conference realignment, but at their core, both issues are all about the money that college athletics makes and how it is to be shared. If you have any interest in the debate, its a pretty provocative article and it certainly takes a stance on the issue. I'm not sure the analogy to the baseball free-agency fight is a one-to-one comparison, but I think its an interesting article on the issue, raises some interesting points, and points out that the current stipend that Mark Emmet is throwing around doesn't really have a logical end point.
Regardless of how you feel about it, the landscape of college athletics is certainly changing. The Ed O'Bannon case is quietly gaining steam, especially in light of NFL players gaining the right to be compensated for the use of their likenesses (in video games, etc), and the decline of amateurism pretty much everywhere else in sports (Tennis, the Olympics). The sanctity of amateurism is not on the pedestal it once was. Conference realignment has the limelight now, but the payment of college athletes is still going to be a major topic in the next few years.
