re: Must read this article on the destruction of college football!

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Very few are against the players getting a piece of the pie. But there is no major team sport in America where athletes are compensated that doesn’t have a salary cap or method of ensuring some form of competitive balance. Not to mention a rule contractually binding players to teams for some minimum time period so that fans (the revenue) have any reason to care about individual players and roster management. The NFL would be a disaster without a salary cap and player contracts. So will college football.

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There is also no pro sports league in the US with 130+ franchises. Pro sports enjoy a defacto anti-trust exemption that allows them to operate the way they do. Its relatively easy to wrangle 30 or so cats when you can pull their sand box out from under them. Harder to do with 130+ and nobody even close to being on the same page.