Ok then salary caps?
Then we agree. Imo a CBA would include a salary cap from the owners' side.
Just trying to understand your position.
Then again, college sports has never been remotely close to an even playing field. Probably the most uneven.. due to lack of above. I can't say if it would help or hurt us, but the uniformity would be nice.
Are y'all discussing salary or NIL?
NIL is basically marketing/sponsorship. I'm trying to imagine the NFL player association that would agree to capping their capability to earn their sponsorship deals.
It's a losing hand to try to mandate parity across over a hundred teams, from Notre Dame to SDSU--especially now that NIL is mandated by SCOTUS. The markets and visibility are just too disparate.
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That's pretty much what we see here with the NCAA/NIL/Investigations right now. It's what's driving the game of chicken between the NCAA and the major universities w/ strong collectives. Remember their statement? "We're just doing what our members are asking us to do."
Do you think the strong NIL collective schools like UT, Bama, UGA, FL St, Michigan... are asking the NCAA to jump through hoops and find ways to make them guilty? Nope.
It's the little school members who can't compete with all that saying, "NCAA, you need to put the toothpaste back in the bottle because we have tiny little toothpaste bottles."
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What probably needs to happen is, the strongest/richest/most visible conferences/teams need to break away and form their own version of 'AA. Allow paying players with CBA. No limit on NIL income abilities.
The other schools continue, and will generally be naturally competitive with one another at the NIL level, (or no NIL level, whichever the market proves out).