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I like how everywhere, in all aspects of life, people have decided to just fuck everything up.
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College football becoming more like employment. The next thing coming is going to be labor rights issues like guaranteed playing time, equal pay for equal responsibilities, etc. The end of college sports is very predictable from where we already are today.
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osuvictory1
Just a schlub from Y-town
I Googled him. A couple Alabama fans were saying they consider him sort of a disappointment, along with other members of their 2021 recruiting class.
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osuvictory1
Just a schlub from Y-town
Actually placing these kids under multi year contracts like the NFL would be one way to get control. The only problem is the NFL has 32 potential suitors and the NCAA has hundreds.
I can't see how most colleges don't want this thing to have some control placed over it, and wondering what is taking so long.
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What's taking so long is there isn't a governing body. NCAA dragged their feet on paying student athletes for decades, and now they're seen as a joke. There's only so long that they could keep fooling fans(and it seems like many are still being fooled) into thinking it was fine to give kids room and board, while their putting their lives on the lone, and then yearly seeing all of the coaches make millions, and conferences make billions. Congress has said they want no parts of the situation, and if it was up to them they'd allow the free for all, because you shouldn't stop an adult from earning a wage for a job they are doing. Room and board isn't a payment, no matter how many people want to talk about "back in their day". Settling for that response is foolish if you're wearing a players jersey or on a message board expecting them to win games for the program you root for.
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One thing they could do is limit a team to something like 10-to-15 incoming transfers per year. That still allows freedom for the players, but makes it hard for a billionaire to be able to buy an entire team in 1 season. Of course he could still get almost a 2-deep from incoming freshmen and transfers with NIL. But it would prevent somebody buying every returning player that‘s either a first or second-team All-American.
And if they do limit transfers, do it right. The limit should apply to 1 year’s team compared to the next year’s team. Not some stupid logic that has allowed teams to get 35 new guys from high school, when the limit is supposed to be 25, but they apply some in January and some in August. That has always bugged the hell out of me.
And if they do limit transfers, do it right. The limit should apply to 1 year’s team compared to the next year’s team. Not some stupid logic that has allowed teams to get 35 new guys from high school, when the limit is supposed to be 25, but they apply some in January and some in August. That has always bugged the hell out of me.
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osuvictory1
Just a schlub from Y-town
I realize why CFB is where it is, but when is enough enough? Time is of the essence now, because this pile of s#+t is completely out of control.
You are then, indirectly, limiting a players ability to transfer and his right to work/earn money. Not a lawyer but I don't think it will fly nor do I think any ideas that generally go at the players ability to make money will fly. The SCOTUS was very clear on that with the NCAA, giving them a not so thinly veiled threat about toeing the line on anti trust laws.
Someone mentioned employee status above and ironically, that is the only way it gets under some sense of control imo. The players have to be employees of someone so they can then unionize and collectively bargain. Then, you can enforce salary caps, player movement etc etc etc
Who/What they are employees of is another topic. I have said for a long time now I think a handful of teams could break their pro sports entity free from the University structure and solve this very efficiently. Not all schools could but the top half of the SEC, OSU, tsun types could.
Lastly, I don't see this stuff as people trying to ruin something that was once good. I see this as the natural consequence of the gross mismanagement by the NCAA, Bowls and, yes, Universities for 50+ years before that. Every last bit of this stems from them trying to keep all the money as the sport grew and not share it with the players.
I think all we are seeing right now is a fascinating, real world laboratory of what a brief moment of nearly unfettered free market capitalism looks like in the 21st century (good and bad).
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That's the million dollar question. We're all wanting limits and guardrails, but no one knows who can implement them. SO we're all in the same boat of wanting an adult to step up, and yet there isn't one
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OregonBuckeye
Semper Fi Buckeyes
We're really gonna have 30-year-old men playing college football, huh? The lack of leadership permeating throughout this sport is fucking embarrassing
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One thing I can say about the future of this with 100% certainty is that when you have an absolute power vacuum AND there are billions of doallars on the table, someone is going to step in and take power (and the money).
When it happens, they will sell it as doing it for the good of the sport which is the basic line for all forms of gangs/governments when they take something away from you.
They won't really give a shit about the sport. They are here for the power and money gangbang.
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We are going to have 30 year old men playing professional football. It just won't be at the NFL level.
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Its the evolution of sport, but due to the NCAA they slowed down what inevitably was going to happen.
And as much as fans are complaining about the lack of rules, we are just as complicit in all of the changes. Fans didn't want the BCS, so it's gone, they wanted a playoff, well here we are. Then the #5 and #6 teams got mad they weren't included, so then the 12 team playoff was born. And now there are rumors of a 14 or 16 team because the #13+ teams don't like that they're not included. It wasn't fair that coaches were being paid, but the players were earning programs and the sport as a whole billions, so now they're getting paid above board. Instead of coaches paying with McDonalds bags, duffle bags, cars, houses, etc. It seems like fans now want the wool pulled back over their eyes and want to act like players weren't getting paid and weren't getting benefits. You can't allow coaches to take jobs whenever they want then get mad when players transfer whenever they want. I hear more complaining over the Portal than the coach at GA Southern who left his team a few weeks before the season to take the fakeUSC job as an assistant!
The next step, IMO is going to turn CFB into a farm system for the NFL. Especially with the new JUCO rules. Why would a number of HSers now go D2 or lower tier schools when they can go the JUCO route for a year and not lose eligibility?
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