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Interesting Article on the Future of College Athletics
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CFB is already run like a business. They might as well take the next step.
We have to get to a place where colleges are paying the players instead of asking the fans to do it and put a cap on what can be spent.
We have to get to a place where colleges are paying the players instead of asking the fans to do it and put a cap on what can be spent.
Yes exactly, and I think NIL is just a stall to placate the athletes to delay the inevitable sharing of TV revenue
Maybe, and I'm not a prophet to predict how things will look in the future.
But one thing I can feel comfortable betting on is greed.
There is too much TV money involved these days to ignore, and it may not be the athletes making the biggest push.
There are too many attorneys out there (as mentioned in the article) and players' agents who I'm sure see this as a nice source of income to not be involved in stirring the pot, so to speak.
I've said this before, graduate students across campuses are increasingly forming unions, and the money involved there is a fraction of the TV revenue generated from sports.
The questions I can't answer is what will happen to the non-revenue sports.
I am guessing the mega-conferences for these sports will disappear and they will be part of regional conferences.
Football and basketball may just end up being minor leagues for the pro equivalents - I don't know.
There are so many questions, including what will happen with all the facilities the boosters invested in across college campuses.
Universities may end up renting these to the sports teams to generate revenue, if they lose complete control of the teams.
Just some thoughts.