Well this is a interesting twist

[twoffo]

1. “College” football is dead. It is being replaced by a de facto pro league.
2. Whatever evolves from the remains of big- time college football will be a competitor of the NFL, not a farm system for it.

 

[LouderVol]

It would be the end of college athletics as we know it. In their greed, the conferences and schools themselves have ****** up college football--not the NCAA. Let's be clear about that. NIL is a joke--more activist nonsense. The whole notion that the student-athletes are "exploited" as always been a activist-led joke. The students are getting a free college education plus many other benefits. The money programs earn is all plowed back into the program, facilities, non-revenue programs, and into academic endeavors: It's not like fat cats or investors are getting rich on the football earnings. It's all nonsense. The schools/conferences could all get together and end all this idiocy--but everybody is afraid of losing their place at the trough, which is why conference expansion has spun totally out of control. The schools, in their greed, have let big-business commercial interests take control of the sport: That is the heart of the matter, and why there is this "mess."

pretty much every FBS head football coach makes a million dollars. P5 just about starts at 3 million per year. SEC's bottom is 3 million per.

many P5 ADs make more than a million dollars.

There are probably between 20 and 30 assistant coaches who make more than a million dollars. plenty of fat cats to be found.

and you are naive as hades if you think all of the money fed back into the program or facilities directly helps the actual student athlete.

and taking the revenue generated by football players and investing in other programs is exploiting the football players. That is the definition of exploitation if the players aren't seeing an equal return on their work.

the issue isn't the value of the education or their other benefits. the issue is the people who generate the revenue aren't the main beneficiary's of their work. The kids are generating millions of dollars of revenue, but they receive the same benefits as athletes whose sport loses money.

Aren't you the dude in the PF that complains about Walmart underpaying their employees? That is what is happening with football players. based on the value they bring to the table they are drastically being underpaid, even with the scholarship and benefits. further that extra profit is just going to the leadership, or to employees in net-loss divisions.

and NIL is completely separate from the revenue they are generating. NIL is simply their own ability to market themselves outside of any "pay" they get from the school. again this was a 9-0 Supreme Court verdict that anti-NIL practices were wrong. that's pretty clear it was exploitation.

 

[Delmar]

I firmly believe that the players should share in the massive profit being generated. However I don’t believe people intended that QB’s should be tooling around campus in a Rolls Royce. Evidently Shadeur Sanders has bought one with his $5.1 million NIL valuation. Saw an interview with an Ohio State coach who said that some recruits are demanding NIL money to make a campus visit. How quickly they learn the ropes of capitalism.

 

[Volsfan1313]

Wouldn't be surprised as it becoming like Minor league baseball. The NFL has this xfl kind of like that now. I can see them going to top tier colleges being double AAA baseball style and XFL being like AA where get sent down for tuneup. And group of 5s being like Single A ball. I dont like the idea but wouldn't be surprised if the NCAA rug gets yanked from underneath them.

XFL would be AAA and college would be AA imo