re: Saban in Congressional roundtable speaking about NIL today

You really are so determined to preserve the past that you would grant college football an antitrust exemption?

This was a political show by Ted Cruz, nothing more or less.

There is zero chance … zero, nil, nada … of an antitrust exemption for college football getting through Congress. It is not going to happen, no matter how many fans bitch about it on message boards.

The key to fixing this is, again, contractual. The schools and the athletes sign a mutually constructed agreement … it will never again be take it or leave it with the athlete having no voice … that an athlete will stay for a certain length of time or incur a penalty. That fixes the Wild West transfer portal which is the real problem here.

The athletes getting paid more than a scholarship is the new reality and is not going to be changed by Congress or the courts. I think once people accept that, we will reach some sort of equilibrium here and things will settle down and all the dire predictions will prove silly.

But there are some fans who will never accept players not putting their asses on the line as gladiators performing for their entertainment with little compensation in the grand scheme of the sport’s financial structure and dancing at the tug of drill sergeant coaches’ marionette strings, and the schools are going to fight like hell not to have players join them at the feeding trough and share the slop. Is what it is.