BigOrangeAl 1979
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You know what would be cool? All of you that constantly whine and cry about college football ending and not being the same would just move on if it make you so damn miserable.
But if you did that, what would you whine about?
Its the coaching salaries that has really been impossible to the NCAA’s argument about amateurism. When individuals are getting insanely rich from the work of unpaid athletes it’s clearly a business for some but not all and is what the Supreme Court said violated anti trust laws. I don’t think greed necessarily had anything to do with it though. The NCAA set amateurism as a rule before there was much money in it, and that’s been part of the model which has made it popular and thus rich. Also, it’s important to remember that the ncaa is comprised of over 1,000 schools. The vast majority of those can’t pay players and they effectively control the rules. I’d say it’s just a system that evolved into something lopsided and unsustainable (and apparently illegal).Ya know, over the years, I have thought about this an awful lot, and it always comes down the same in my mind…
For a very long time, a very long time, Coach’s salaries, even in non revenue sports have increased exponentially compared to the value of a scholarship.
At anytime a University could have said, “wait a minute…”the right thing to do, now that there’s all this tv money being shelled out, is to make sure every scholarship athlete on our campus is treated the same, financially, that is, we need to get out in front of this.”
Instead, they hid behind title IX, since the 1970’s, hid behind amateurism, hid behind workmen’s comp, built gigantic facilities, employed entire armies of people that benefit directly from the “student athletes”.
Look at Rivals, 24/7, D1, Perfect Game, not to mention ESPN, who has become the defacto NCAA. Entire institutions, businesses thriving, while talking out the sides of their collective mouths about how giving the athletes a bigger cut of the pie will destroy college athletics.
It’s all come home to roost.
It's going to really be about 6 schools that dominate. NIL basically allows for open cheating & who does the best & has the fan base to offer the 5 stars big money will win.
College sports was set up to be a game verse amateurs & people who love their college.
It's far from that now. I'm shocked kids even have to register for class anymore much less attend a class.
Its the coaching salaries that has really been impossible to the NCAA’s argument about amateurism. When individuals are getting insanely rich from the work of unpaid athletes it’s clearly a business for some but not all and is what the Supreme Court said violated anti trust laws. I don’t think greed necessarily had anything to do with it though. The NCAA set amateurism as a rule before there was much money in it, and that’s been part of the model which has made it popular and thus rich. Also, it’s important to remember that the ncaa is comprised of over 1,000 schools. The vast majority of those can’t pay players and they effectively control the rules. I’d say it’s just a system that evolved into something lopsided and unsustainable (and apparently illegal).
For as long as they have been playing college football, at any given time about 6 (or less) schools dominate the sport.It's going to really be about 6 schools that dominate. NIL basically allows for open cheating & who does the best & has the fan base to offer the 5 stars big money will win.
College sports was set up to be a game verse amateurs & people who love their college.
It's far from that now. I'm shocked kids even have to register for class anymore much less attend a class.
For as long as they have been playing college football, at any given time about 6 (or less) schools dominate the sport.
Now, the handful of schools that dominate changes over time, but many schools that we all know have had multiple periods of dominance.
I don't know where this notion is coming from that "back in the day" the sport was wide open and any number of schools could win a title, and now within the last 10 years Alabama and a few others control everything. College football has never, ever, been that way. NIL and the other modern changes perpetuate the way the sport has basically always been in terms of the number of dominant teams.