College Football MUST ESCAPE NCAA's Sports Socialism!
- Thread starter Gamecock72
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I'm tired of these wild-@$$ed estimates - "over $200 million" paid out in NIL right now. Somebody's going to have to document that for me to take them seriously. He is correct to this extent, though. What is being done in college football now is not the traditional, name, image and likeness transaction. College football has morphed into a straight pay-for-play system and NIL is just a name to cover cooperative or individual slush fund payouts. That can't be allowed to stand indefinitely.
Cleveland Browns and Baltimore Ravens owner Art Modell claimed that the NFL Owners were "32 republicans who vote socialist”
By being socialists in their business dealings and sharing basically all profits the NFL ensures every franchise makes money. CFB needs some intelligent cooperation/socialism and sharing so they can negotiate with the talent and TV, set rules and navigate legislation.
By being socialists in their business dealings and sharing basically all profits the NFL ensures every franchise makes money. CFB needs some intelligent cooperation/socialism and sharing so they can negotiate with the talent and TV, set rules and navigate legislation.
I think that, like the NFL, the colleges are not Darwinian in the sense that only the fittest should survive. Nobody's trying to put anyone else out of business.
I think a system that keeps schools in the game is good because I don't want the U of SC to ever be unsustainable as a major brand. But uniformity must come to how NIL is administered or no conceivable mutually beneficial format can ever be devised, let alone work.
