Jameson Williams suing the Big Ten and SEC

Also where does it end? Could an athlete sue 247Sports? They sell subscriptions to rank highschool athletes.

Could they sue the preseason magazines? ESPN for playing their highlights? All these organizations profit while using a players NiL.

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Also where does it end? Could an athlete sue 247Sports? They sell subscriptions to rank highschool athletes.

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I'd actually love to see how this would play out. Is 247 sports generating revenue from clicks and ads used on pages where they rank players and list their names along with pictures? Players could use 247 and On3.

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Burn it all down. I hope a million Jamesons start suing.

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my brother feels the same way. burn it down and start fresh. i'm still kind of on the fence, sort of. but i do think we are to far gone at this point. at this time i think its no longer "college" athletics, especially football. thats very sad for an old head like me.

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If you are not good enough , get a job or go to school like everybody else . People would be begging for the old days

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That was always my stance. The schools/programs provided tremendous value to these players. People acting like the players weren’t getting anything of value were being dishonest.

The easiest guardrail to put up is taxing the absolute frick out of "people" like Mark Cuban, Larry Ellison, Cody Campbell, John Ruiz, the Walton family, etc. and all of their businesses so they don't have enough money left over to throw away millions on vanity projects like buying a championship caliber college athletics team.

Players have never “deserved” a single cent, market-wise. The do-gooders and race-baiters who kept pushing the line “these players generate millions for these schools and don’t receive a dime! It’s unfair!” won’t acknowledge one fact: these players don’t generate anything. No fan in the stands paid one cent to watch Julio Jones or Tim Tebow. Fans pay millions to watch The University of Alabama Crimson Tide play the University of Florida Gators. Without the framework of collegiate football and the NCAA, not a single player is worth anything.

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Players have never “deserved” a single cent, market-wise. The do-gooders and race-baiters who kept pushing the line “these players generate millions for these schools and don’t receive a dime! It’s unfair!” won’t acknowledge one fact: these players don’t generate anything. No fan in the stands paid one cent to watch Julio Jones or Tim Tebow. Fans pay millions to watch The University of Alabama Crimson Tide play the University of Florida Gators. Without the framework of collegiate football and the NCAA, not a single player is worth anything.

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I don't think I really agree with this even though I understand where you're coming from. I do think that there'd be a different level of interest if the Crimson Tide were a team of Dekes and Q Dogs instead of elite athletes from across the nation.

However, I think the idea that most athletes were getting a bad deal was always faulty. I think some of it is up to even Gen X, the college expense was something that people could afford by working a job in college and taking out an auto-loan level of debt. Now, you essentially have to take on mortgage level of debt to attend any college in this country. The scholarship deal in exchange for athletic participation has gotten better not worse for the vast majority even after television revenues exploded.

We're at a point now where first three rounds caliber talent - especially those more in the 2nd/3rd round range - have to seriously consider staying in college because they'll make more money than they would getting drafted. Once 5 in 5 happens, the NFL is going to see more 3rd and 4th year players stay out of the draft. I think there is a growing trend of thinner drafts lately. Eventually, that is going to cause roster management problems for the cream of the crop elites of this country that own NFL franchises. All the sudden, the pressure to bottle up spending in college will be coming from the NFL and their owners who often get cushy ambassadorship appointments each presidency.