re: Josh Pate talks about how college football will be unrecognizable in 5-10 years

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it will become a semi pro football league detached from the university

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I have had this conclusion several times since NIL started.
The only thing I can think of to save the “college” aspect of COLLEGE football:

The college scholarship program needs to change.
Scholarship has 12 year window. You don’t have to be enrolled in classes if you are playing a sport. If you are in college to play a sport that you can earn a living playing, then that is all your focus, not classes. Say after 5 years from initially enrolling in college your respective sport doesn’t pan out professionally- you’d still have 7 years to use that college scholarship to earn your degree.

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Schools need to stop labeling sports as extracurricular activities, and just make them degree programs in and of themselves. Instead of saying I played football in college say, “I majored in football in college. Didn’t play professionally, but hey, I have that degree!”