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Are we at the beginning of the end for amateur college athletics?
Posted on 7/5/22 at 3:16 pm
Posted on 7/5/22 at 3:16 pm
It started with players getting the $100 handshakes, then went on to more and more under-the-table money. TV contracts grew and coaches now make exponentially more than university presidents. Now the transfer portal gates have swung open and some NIL deals are reportedly in the millions.
How can a weakened and ineffective body like the NCAA possibly keep college athletics from imploding?
How can a weakened and ineffective body like the NCAA possibly keep college athletics from imploding?
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Posted on 7/5/22 at 3:17 pm to BrotherDawg84
I think Amateurism, especially in the revenue generating sports, have been gone for a while now.
Posted on 7/5/22 at 3:17 pm to BrotherDawg84
Sí
Posted on 7/5/22 at 3:20 pm to BrotherDawg84
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It started with players getting the $100 handshakes
Bruh that shite started in 1869
Posted on 7/5/22 at 3:20 pm to UKWildcats
Hell, the revenue sports are in the fast lane to semi-pro or minor league status
Posted on 7/5/22 at 3:21 pm to BrotherDawg84
Yes
Posted on 7/5/22 at 3:23 pm to BrotherDawg84
You guys act like this is really anything new, college athletics have been trending this direction for 75 years or longer.
Posted on 7/5/22 at 3:40 pm to paperwasp
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quote: It started with players getting the $100 handshakes Bruh that shite started in 1869
You’ll note that I listed that first and didn’t mention a year.
Posted on 7/5/22 at 3:42 pm to BreakawayZou83
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You guys act like this is really anything new, college athletics have been trending this direction for 75 years or longer.
Who’s acting like it’s new? But it has hit warp speed.
Posted on 7/5/22 at 3:43 pm to BrotherDawg84
Amateurism has always existed in college sports, but they're called Intramural. At the point where you're paid to attend a university (even with a scholarship) then you're already a non-amateur.
Posted on 7/5/22 at 3:45 pm to BrotherDawg84
nfl should start their own minor league. college football should be a club sport.
Posted on 7/5/22 at 3:52 pm to BrotherDawg84
Look, it can't be the wild west but the dipshit NCAA is not the answer either. Let's just have basic sensible rules and let conferences police the schools.
Posted on 7/5/22 at 3:54 pm to BrotherDawg84
Welcome to 1955
Posted on 7/5/22 at 3:56 pm to BrotherDawg84
Yes. We're there.
LSU's championship in 2019 was likely the last fully legitimate NC.
Bama's in 2020 was somewhat legit but I would consider it "incomplete".
Georgia was truly the best team in 2021 but NIL had already gotten started. Still, Georgia did not participate quite so much in it like the other big programs.
LSU's championship in 2019 was likely the last fully legitimate NC.
Bama's in 2020 was somewhat legit but I would consider it "incomplete".
Georgia was truly the best team in 2021 but NIL had already gotten started. Still, Georgia did not participate quite so much in it like the other big programs.
Posted on 7/5/22 at 3:57 pm to BrotherDawg84
Yes
Posted on 7/5/22 at 5:21 pm to BrotherDawg84
It’s going take a few years to sort out NIL. A few players go bust money will level out on in coming freshman. But transfer portal could be big money for proven players. That real could screw College Football every year. You won’t know who coming or going. What if a College Team (Miami) decides to buy half of another School Team (Georgia) just example. This may be to far example but who knows were we will end up.
Posted on 7/5/22 at 5:35 pm to BrotherDawg84
Posted on 7/5/22 at 5:47 pm to BrotherDawg84
Same thing happened in the 1920's
US president stepped in and the NCAA was formed or it was headed to the lawyers
US president stepped in and the NCAA was formed or it was headed to the lawyers
Posted on 7/5/22 at 5:50 pm to BrotherDawg84
Beginning? No, but NIL was a bale of straw on the camels back. If it doesn't break amateur athletics, nothing can.
Posted on 7/5/22 at 5:57 pm to BrotherDawg84
You say it started with the players getting $100 handshakes but I disagree. It started because fans have interest and will pay money for it. Programs could have chosen to keep charging $1 a ticket and put the game on the local PBS for free. When they decided money was more important it became inevitable that the trickle down to players would occur. They are, after all, the single biggest reason those billions of dollars get generated. It only makes sense that programs would find a way to get the best ones to produce the best products (whether within the rules or not).
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