re: Texas A&M Broke

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I don't really understand the people who think a salary cap is coming or would fix anything.

College football is different than the NFL in that we have boosters who are willing to spend stupid amounts of money to see the school they graduated from (or support without graduating from) succeed.

The courts have made it clear that it's going to be okay going forward for these boosters to give money to recruits and players dependent upon them playing for a school and that no restriction by the colleges or NCAA (or any other organization) will be allowed to limit that.

That means even if you pay players and institute a salary cap on what their paid from the school, the boosters will still be able to set up NIL deals to pay the players above the salary cap to play at the school.

As long as it's legal to do that and boosters still want to pay stupid amounts of money for their team to succeed, no salary cap will work for college football. Professional teams don't have boosters like college football does. The professional model of balancing the playing field only works if boosters disappear.

There's never really been any logical reason for boosters to exist. It doesn't make sense to give prospects thousands or millions of dollars just for your alma mater to win football games any more than giving money to pro-players through advertising deals to sign with your favorite pro-team makes sense. That's completely legal, but it's a non-factor in the pro game because pro football fans don't have the mentality of throwing money at pro athletes just to get them to sign for their favorite team.

But that mindset exists in college. And as long as it does, with the courts decisions on NIL, salary caps in college serve no purpose.

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