Let each school (franchise) decide how to spend its revenue-share-based payroll.

If Texas wants to spend $8M a year on a DE, great...but that may mean they can't afford to pay a couple 2- or 3-star recruits more than $50,000 per year.

But maybe that 3-star recruit can go to Kansas State or Michigan State and get $100,000 per year.

Or maybe they can't, and that's just the way the market has been set, just like the NFL.

Above and beyond their full tuition, room and board, etc.

Depth is important plus kids are a bit of an unknown when they first come out of high school.

I'd assume a minimum salary would be set up and an overall team cap for major CFB programs.

Where would you cut off the requirement? With your number, the average D1 Program would need to allot $10-15 million for player "salaries".

CFB programs that average $80M+ annual revenue - in other words, P5 schools. Or a high % of them.

average wage $350-$400K which is on top of the full scholarship.

"non-revenue" sports with the revenue they take in from football, basketball, hockey...whatever...depending upon the school. Most of the Power 5 can do it, what happens to the ones that can't. Do they drop sports? Do some conferences become the Big East of old and drop football? How do the dominos fall?

But I would anticipate collateral damage.

sucked up to the top tier programs and the lower level programs play increasingly meaningless games. Nobody watches the XFL, by the way--the future of the have nots.

just like the XFL.