A little over a year ago, doomsayers from college athletics began warning us all about the Armageddon that would follow cost-of-attendance payments to student-athletes.
Bob Bowlsby, commissioner of the Big 12, said that if you like college athletics now, “you’re going to hate it going forward.” He predicted the end of Olympic sports — those that do not generate revenue for their schools — and a wider divide between the haves and have-nots.
“I think (cost of attendance is) great,” Bowlsby said in July 2014. “I think there are ways that it costs more than room, board, books, tuition and fees to go to school.