I see no good outcome that does not involve a national solution. Even that will not necessarily be good, but at least it will be definitive.
The sooner they do the trans surgery, the sooner they can attempt the reversal surgery is my medical analogy.
Disagree. This is all inevitable. Starting with Curt Flood. I'm certainly no NCAA apologist, but they've been outmanned for as long as I've been around. They were destined to fail.
Apples to Oranges. Curt Flood was a one professional athlete, who challenged an existing reserve clause rule which led to free agency.
Why does anyone have to be to blame. If you REALLY want to blame anything blame capitalism. ESPN saw a market they can make money in. The schools saw an opportunity to make money. Now the players are taking an opportunity to make money. Free market capitalism started all of this. Which I’m 100% ok with. The chaotic nature of it lays at the feet of the NCAA/member institutions.
I understand the difference. But it was inevitable the process would filter its way down to "amateur" sports.
What does that have to do with anything? TV changed the game. You want to go back to no games televised, no NCAA video games, no athletic advertisement of any kind? Fine. That will end it.
Totally agree. But greed crept in and the opportunity to job hunt with a free education after football was not enough.
Certainly many factors involved. The flood of money into the game obviously triggered most of the problems. Nevertheless, I come back to "if you think the system is unfair, then choose not to participate." It's an extracurricular activity. Not mandatory and not necessary.
Just so we're all on the same page...EVERYONE in the whole supply chain of CFB should get to profit off of it EXCEPT the ones actually producing the results? Spare me the college degree nonsense. These are not real students. Made up majors just to satisfy a requirement, lowered admission standards than the rest of the student population, tremendous access to academic resources nobody else has access to. It's a farce. I know a guy that used to be the HC of a D1 program. I was talking to him before a game and one of his players walks in and they start talking about school work. Guy walks out and my buddy says "your 10 year old daughter can read and write better than him". I laughed, he said "I'm not kidding. The fact that he's even here is a joke."
Did anyone force the universities to have football programs? Anyone putting a gun to the heads of those presidents? Who forced the presidents of those universities to monetize their football programs? Nobody did. They should have just shut their mouths and kept athletics amateur. THEY changed the game, not the players.
Sure. And that will be figured out by either the individual institutions or some governing body. The players aren’t just going to get 100% of the revenue.
You've also not seen anyone suggesting that 100% of the money coming in should be given to athletes. But like any other pay structure, they will be set such that the company (Ie, athletic department) can still have enough left over to pay operating expenses and risk mitigation.
They spend whatever is available to spend. If they had $1 billion, they'd spend $1 billion. My guess is the nonsensical facility builds would go away. You'd stop seeing coordinators making $2M/yr. You wouldn't see anybody paying a coach $75M to walk away. Sorry Dawn, but coaches of non revenue generating sports would drop dramatically. That's where it's going to get interesting. A lot of coaches have been pro NIL. Lets see what they think when they have to take cuts to fund it.
So based on your post, if an athlete ends up in a scenario where he/she is totally being exploited for others to make hundreds of millions of dollars and keep it all for themselves, he/she should just shut up because they can grab their lunch in the dining hall for free.
They've always gotten a lot more than a ''free lunch''. A $30,000 - $100,000 college degree, room and board, medical care and the audition for the pros used to be enough. Now, getting an education has no value.
1. Athletes arent the only students on college campuses on scholarship......even full scholarship.
If we wanted them to be amateurs the presidents of the universities should have told the networks to pound sand when they wanted to televise them. There's nothing about this current setup that is amateur....except what the NCAA keeps saying so their members can keep pocketing all the money. But just bc they say it doesn't make it true. You got coaches making $10M/yr, with some even having housing taken care of, an expense account, car, etc...We built an indoor training facility bc everyone else is doing it. Football only ops building with necessities such as a barber shop and recording studio. It's ridiculous how much money these athletic departments are just lighting on fire. Marty Byrde would have a field day in that setup!!
The crazy part is the majority of that $1B comes from television rights for March Madness. I believe they bring in $900M annually for that. And it's disbursed to the member universities. What other 2 week long amateur event draws a price tag of $900M to televise?
1. That's why there are athletic scholarships and academic scholarships
But it's been that way forever. What hasn't been this way forever is the ridiculous increase in money flowing through these ADs. HBC got a raise and extension to $4M in 2014. At that time, it made him one of the top 10 paid coaches in the country. Saban was making $5.4M. Fast forward 10 years, and Saban was making $11.4M and to get into the top 10 club you have to make at least $9M. If you want to be even more baffled go back to 2005 when HBC was hired making $1.25M/yr.
