Okay I get that there were Ncaa violations. I get that players were selling their gear. I get that there will be penalties for the university.
k with that out of the way. Theres only one way for the NCAA to fix the issue or enforce Player Memorbilia sales rules.
Prohibit players from signing anything that can be considered "memorbilia"
Theres no way to enforce the rule. Theres really now ay to tell for sure outside of eyewitness testimony whether a player signed something and sold it or a fan got it signed and sold it.
even with special items like the gold pants and rings its really hard to prove that the player themselves sold it . its easily deniable.
Now of course once something comes to light out of lets say an fbi investigation where law enforcement officer witness the act and people are more willing to suddenly report things that happened then the NCAA might actually have a case they can penalize a school for.
but overall you dont have the fbi investigating these types of transactions and the NCAA has no power to compel anyone to say anything outside of their association.
Of course the NCAA isnt going to do such a prohibition because then they would lose money. the same reason they allowed pryor and his gang to play in the sugar bowl.
The NCAA is an inherently corrupt organization maybe one day tv revenues will be big enough for a few of the superconference to break away from the NCAA and form their own athletic association with a more sensible rulebook
Pryors crime outside of being a selfish egomaniac with little regard to his teammates and rules in generl is making a profit selling his memorbilia. the same memoribilia that the NCAA has no qualms selling and collecting the profits from these same items
https://www.ncaa.org/wps/wcm/connec...ERES&CACHEID=5fe2df804e0b96bd8c90fc1ad6fc8b25
licensing is big money and players selling their own memorbilia without any royalties for the NCAA is a crime against their pocketbook not a crime against the "integrity" of the game.
What you will see out of these sanctions and violation is something that brings the NCAA closer to some type of reform in this regards. that would be a positive.