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The schools just hate revenue sharing. It costs them money. It’s the only way out though. Share revenue, collectively bargain, sign contracts. Works in the NFL.

Oh. It was never NIL. It’s been pay for play the whole time.

The NFL system is transparent and dependent on open books and access to contracts, so the NFL system works because there is no real mechanism for "cheating" the system.

Skirting the rules for sign stealing, coaching hires, and inducing players to ask for trades are dealt with rather than ignored, with significant penalties.

Pity the fool that tries to skirt the salary cap and gets busted.

The Antitrust issues with the NFL have been molded over a long period of time, though numerous legal precedents, and are continuously scrutinized by public, private and governmental organizations at many levels.

The NFL system won't work for college.

Private schools don't share their information, while the public schools are subject to open records access.

The notion of collective bargaining and salary caps is a joke. The rampant cheating that existed in the past would just be business as usual, with under the table deals the norm rather than the exception.

Revenue sharing, by definition, means the schools share/pay for everything,

Why should every school pay the same % revenue or the same $/year?

That is not fair, or equitable for the schools. Every school chooses what is best for them, to build or not build better facilities, including food options and amenities, suites and private boxes, scheduling of out of conference opponents, ticket prices, cost and quality of merchandise, etc.

The bigger, better programs would generate more revenue, have more to share, and theoretically get better because they have more to spend. The only difference is the schools pay for it rather than the collectives, alumni groups, associations, NIL partners, etc.

Now, each conference or entity negotiates their own media contracts, with the built in inequalities. Big difference compared to the NFL.

Transfer rules need some benchmarks, but the college football world needs a unified position that would meet antitrust guidelines. Sending some jake-leg state delegation to lobby congress is not the right way.

The Title IX congressional hearings ended with a Federal mandate for compliance, under the purview of the NCAA. Since then, college football has systematically neutered the NCAA, and now some are looking for the NCAA to bail them out, with government oversight. Be careful what you ask for.

The system has always been tilted, its just tilted in a different direction right now.