A couple of things about this: 1. It doesn't take $200K to land a top player. Rumor is that Patrick Peterson accepted $35K and $500/month to go to LSU. 2. I don't know about basketball, but in college football the boosters don't pay the players like the agents do. Instead, they pay the families of the players, where mysterious envelopes full of cash and game tickets pop up on their doorstep the week of a game. I guess we'll have to wait and see the results of Anthony Davis's lawsuit to find out how much it costs.