Heh, for any of our Terps this year I think $10 is too much compensation, but that's a sidebar=)

What about my point that these players can hardly go to classes they are on the road all the time? Like you say they are given tutors, ok great, so they are going to a great school academically, but they are taught, everyone admits, to a great degree by tutors. What difference does it make if their professor is a leader in their field, if the tutor is teaching them a majority of the class.

Allowing for these players to "renew" a scholarship after their playing days are over has the added benefit that at this point these young men have come to terms with the fact they aren't headed to the NBA (or even Europe/Asia to play), and they will probably make more use of their free education as mature 22-23 year olds with this knowledge than fresh out of high school 18 year olds who have been told by everyone around them in many cases that basketball/football is their future...

BTW I'm already too invested in the tourny this year, but next year and until a better system is worked out I'm seriously considering not watching college b-ball (I already could care less about football).