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OT: Miami AD calls for lifting all caps on athletes’ compensation
Posted on 1/19/26 at 12:29 pm
Posted on 1/19/26 at 12:29 pm
Says schools already rendering the House settlement irrelevant by doing third-party deals, it’s a fool’s errand trying to put the genie back in the bottle, Ohio State and Notre Dame ADs agree.
Money quote, literally: “Everyone is looking to get an edge on everyone else as this industry has done forever. They are going to spend X, so we are going to spend 2X.”
Thoughts?
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Money quote, literally: “Everyone is looking to get an edge on everyone else as this industry has done forever. They are going to spend X, so we are going to spend 2X.”
Thoughts?
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This post was edited on 1/19/26 at 12:34 pm
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Posted on 1/19/26 at 12:38 pm to InkStainedWretch
Wrong lesson. The answer is the subjugate all these schools to rules with real teeth in terms of player compensation instead of letting them play this death drive frick-you-got-mine game.
Posted on 1/19/26 at 12:39 pm to InkStainedWretch
Due to the federal court rulings there are only two paths:
1) increasing chaos and inevitable collapse in a portal/NIL world
2) make the players employees, give them contracts and collective bargaining and move ahead like any other professional sports league
Those are the options.
1) increasing chaos and inevitable collapse in a portal/NIL world
2) make the players employees, give them contracts and collective bargaining and move ahead like any other professional sports league
Those are the options.
Posted on 1/19/26 at 12:41 pm to tide06
One of the chief culprits of acceleration towards 1 is telling us we should just let the sport run the lambo into the wall like a CEO trying to commit suicide. Interesting!
Posted on 1/19/26 at 12:43 pm to Diego Ricardo
I don’t disagree but who’s advocating that except fans on message boards decrying the sport’s direction?
Posted on 1/19/26 at 12:59 pm to tide06
I mean if they’re going to be paid to play, we need contracts and structure similar to the NFL. Hold the players accountable for their performance, if they’re fail to live up to expectations or portal out before fulfilling the contract then they must repay every dime or lose eligibility.
Posted on 1/19/26 at 1:00 pm to InkStainedWretch
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I don’t disagree but who’s advocating that except fans on message boards decrying the sport’s direction?
You can't want a drug addict to beat an addiction enough that it happens for them.
They're either going to make the changes everyone knows this sport needs or make it enough of a farce that people just decide to watch the NFL because it is a more rational sport where my franchise's centerpieces, by-and-large, will be playing on my favorite team every year until they're busted or retired.
Posted on 1/19/26 at 1:08 pm to InkStainedWretch
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Thoughts?
It would cause ever ballooning costs just like the education system at large. Pretty soon every school would be charging every student football player salary fees.
A lot of these administrators of pseudo-government institutions make “free market” arguments like this, but fail to acknowledge, either by omission or ignorance, that these aren’t free market systems.
Schools, and by extension athletic departments, have no real risk on the expense side. The people running them are an expense, there are no equity partners, and ultimately, they’d get a bailout if they ever somehow went under. So they will just spend and spend and spend and demand more and more money.
Posted on 1/19/26 at 1:48 pm to Gj4Bama
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I mean if they’re going to be paid to play, we need contracts and structure similar to the NFL
1-2 year contracts, free agency and possibly even salary caps based on a collective bargaining agreement.
Posted on 1/19/26 at 2:02 pm to InkStainedWretch
People love to blame the players but it's the old men in the room who have created all of this. The unlimited amounts of greed.. it's only normal if I'm working I want my cut as well.
These same schools love talking about "the system" as if they aren't creating it.. whine whenever you lose the player or he gets bought out then turn around and bid $4M for UGA's starter than $6.5M the next season for Alabama's.
But sure sure it's the players who are doing this and not the crazy amount of greed from old men running television network, football conferences and university atheltic programs.
These same schools love talking about "the system" as if they aren't creating it.. whine whenever you lose the player or he gets bought out then turn around and bid $4M for UGA's starter than $6.5M the next season for Alabama's.
But sure sure it's the players who are doing this and not the crazy amount of greed from old men running television network, football conferences and university atheltic programs.
Posted on 1/19/26 at 3:13 pm to InkStainedWretch
The rich Miami crowd must be wanting to get in on the NIL action.
Posted on 1/19/26 at 3:14 pm to InkStainedWretch
I'm not sure if it'll work out either way.
Posted on 1/19/26 at 4:40 pm to tide06
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2) make the players employees
I know this overall concept has been buried in the courts for a while, but I seriously can't believe someone hasn't sued yet to make enrolling in school optional.
Of all the 'major' hurdles left to fall, I have to imagine this one will be next.
Posted on 1/19/26 at 4:43 pm to tide06
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Due to the federal court rulings there are only two paths: 1) increasing chaos and inevitable collapse in a portal/NIL world 2) make the players employees, give them contracts and collective bargaining and move ahead like any other professional sports league
Posted on 1/19/26 at 4:44 pm to InkStainedWretch
Texas will prove once again this season that national titles cant be bought.
The way to return sanity to college football is limiting the portal.
But the courts fricked this all up and I'm not sure it can be fixed.
The way to return sanity to college football is limiting the portal.
But the courts fricked this all up and I'm not sure it can be fixed.
Posted on 1/19/26 at 4:58 pm to YStar
Yes, because the players are all just innocent little cherubs who are all paragons of virtue. They’re being forced to chase those bags of money (extreme sarcasm).
Let’s be honest here. Probably two thirds of all college football players would never in a million years be accepted into these universities if they couldn’t bench press a house or run like a deer or throw a football 100 yards.
They wouldn’t be able to show case their talents often on a national basis. They wouldn’t get to be developed mentally and physically by the schools. They wouldn’t have access to literally a tutor for every single class they take at their school. They get free housing, food and books.
The schools bend over backwards to keep them academically eligible and get all kinds of accommodations that normal students don’t get.
They get attention from good looking women that they never in a million years would get if they weren’t players.
Yes, the players work hard and they sometimes take a physical beating. I’m not saying players shouldn’t get anything but let’s be brutally honest here, 95% of them leave because they’re chasing a bag of money. Nothing more.
To think otherwise is incredibly naive. And that is their prerogative, but don’t be surprised if one day the entire system collapses and everyone gets NOTHING.
Let’s be honest here. Probably two thirds of all college football players would never in a million years be accepted into these universities if they couldn’t bench press a house or run like a deer or throw a football 100 yards.
They wouldn’t be able to show case their talents often on a national basis. They wouldn’t get to be developed mentally and physically by the schools. They wouldn’t have access to literally a tutor for every single class they take at their school. They get free housing, food and books.
The schools bend over backwards to keep them academically eligible and get all kinds of accommodations that normal students don’t get.
They get attention from good looking women that they never in a million years would get if they weren’t players.
Yes, the players work hard and they sometimes take a physical beating. I’m not saying players shouldn’t get anything but let’s be brutally honest here, 95% of them leave because they’re chasing a bag of money. Nothing more.
To think otherwise is incredibly naive. And that is their prerogative, but don’t be surprised if one day the entire system collapses and everyone gets NOTHING.
Posted on 1/19/26 at 5:15 pm to YStar
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People love to blame the players
No one is holding a gun to their heads and making literally thousands of them transfer every year in a quest for more money.
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The unlimited amounts of greed
Is a broad problem that goes a lot deeper and ruins a lot more than college football. There is a general theme of aggressive selfishness that exists like a cancerous tumor at the heart of American society. Greed and fricking over other people for personal gain are considered virtues in this country. And that applies to the players as well as TV executives, school administrators, the NCAA, or whoever else. We all have a role to play in this bullshite. Even the fans who, despite all our complaining, will support all of it as long as it benefits our favorite team.
Posted on 1/19/26 at 5:42 pm to Robot Santa
What you’ve stated is definitely true, but chasing money, fame, and power has been around for almost as long as humans have. It was pretty common in ancient Greece, Rome, etc.
I think the frustrating part is that it wasn’t always so broad and in your face in America, but social media has ramped it up to never before seen levels. I’ve seen hints of some backlash against social media in the school age kids recently, so I’m hopeful things can self correct a bit. However, I’m not naive enough to think the majority of society won’t still chase those 3 things.
I think the frustrating part is that it wasn’t always so broad and in your face in America, but social media has ramped it up to never before seen levels. I’ve seen hints of some backlash against social media in the school age kids recently, so I’m hopeful things can self correct a bit. However, I’m not naive enough to think the majority of society won’t still chase those 3 things.
Posted on 1/19/26 at 6:20 pm to tide06
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2) make the players employees, give them contracts and collective bargaining and move ahead like any other professional sports league
Greg Byrne has been one of the ADs steadfast against this, and I get it. But short of congressional intervention (which I don't think will ever happen) it will be the only way to slow the chaos. We now have guys signing contracts and then days later leaving their school with zero consequences because their contract can't really be enforced. That is not sustainable .
Posted on 1/19/26 at 6:42 pm to BamaDude06
The love of money is the root of all evil.
Have the courts ruled yet that requiring actual athletic talent in order to participate is a "restraint on trade?"
Have the courts ruled yet that requiring actual athletic talent in order to participate is a "restraint on trade?"
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