So everybody is pretending it isn't really pay to play--when we all know that it is--by tap dancing around technicalities. The schools and collectives can't really protect themselves contractually when doing so would be considered pay to play. But everybody else is offering the money with the risk of not getting any return anyway, so that is what has to be done to compete. Right now, the players hold more power than they should and this situation is a result of that.