The deeper it goes, the more complicated it gets.
Perhaps, it could be structured somewhat like a work-study job, albeit it a far more lucrative one. Once the athletes are employees governed by contracts or a collective bargaining agreement, there are all kinds of requirements and limits that the schools can negotiate.
And don’t worry about Justice Kavanaugh. Once this stops being an “unfettered capitalism” issue and starts being an employee rights issue, his opinion will turn on a dime.
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Which opens a bigger question: Do universities really want to have departments filled with employees with no educational relationship to that university whose sole purpose is to compete against another university’s similar paid employees?
It’s already happening. So the answer is yes. Miami needs to get organized and build what Georgia has built. Get some of that “those that will” money to become “those that nil” donors and they’ll be off.