Personally I think Foster is full of it.  I can only speak to my time at Vandy when I lived with a football player freshman year, and the idea that he would have gone hungry on weekends is laughable.  Those guys lived like kings.  But hey, maybe at other schools like Tennessee, they struggled to eat on weekends.  But even with our history of little success, I'd have to think if Foster was telling the truth, Vandy's recruiting classes would have been so much better.  I think an endless supply of TVs, video games, music, etc... not to mention food on weekends, would be enough to sway more kids to come to us than going to Tennessee where apparently the kids are dying in the streets from malnourishment.  

 

I dont think there are any middle grounds with this though.  You either keep the system where it is or you completely open it up.  Let schools pay these kids whatever you want.  There is no paying some kids but not others, you cant force all schools to pay since most dont make any money, and you cant force only profitable schools to pay because the task of determining which ones are profitable would be mindless legal headache.  

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