re: Transfers should have a 1 year ban on nil deals like old transfer rules

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Those behind the curtain that made this mess Do Not want to fix what they created!

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A lot of college football's problems are essentially of this type: it is a problem for everyone except for the people in control of the thing.

I think this is mostly because college athletics is sorta like small-state competition that lends itself to this loose confederation approach where nobody's individual power is challenged too much. In other words, the whole exercise is about protecting fiefdoms.

What college football needs is an enlightened despot that can see above the petty interests and drive the sports toward a end goal with intentionality. Because everything is about not challenging the fiefdoms in college athletics, the sport grows with no design and it leads to irrational solutions.

This is one of core problems of college athletics. The other is more on the collegiate system altogether: it is predicating on exploiting cheap or free labor. College administrators never want to pay anyone a real wage other than tenure-tracked professors and they're deemphasizing those too. A lot of the amateurism system - outside the original player safety concerns in the Teddy Roosevelt days - was predicated on college administrators simply not wanting to be on the hook for paying the players. Paying labor in scholarships and getting more work out of them than the dollar amount of the scholarship is worth is the core principle of university labor acquisition.