re: House Bill 188 in the Mississippi Legislature

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This is going to become the correct answer sooner than later.

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That would bankrupt damn near every state and private university that doesn't have a Harvard or Yale sized endowment and pretty much only those two have Harvard or Yale sized endowments. We live in a student-loans-as a necessity even if you're upper middle class world. Beyond that many have state lotto scholarships plus rely on state funding for their budgets and a lawsuit in state court is as unwinnable as federal court win it comes to these issues. AND obviously it would be challenged on constitutional/equal protection grounds the same way it would be if school refused federal dollars in an attempt to keep from fielding black players.

IOW, this has snowball's chance in hell of ever being a solution or even attempted.

If boosters wanna pay players the easy legal solution is to give up CFB and start college-age minor league football teams. That won't happen though because football is expensive, requires resources that unis can provide at low to zero cost, new teams would have no in-built fanbase, would produce a subpar product for several years, and would likely never turn a profit. What most colleges and universities won't admit and what fans are typically unaware of is that only a handful of Div. 1 programs turn any profit and even those who have lucrative tv deals/revenue deals often make very little when they make anything at all.

CFB spends an enormous amount of cash, provides facilities the NFL doesn't provide, benefits from hidden fees that charge students, utilizes the help of PhD's working at their respective schools, and much more. It's not a reproducible model and wouldn't be sustainable without both state and federal funding despite booster support for capital projects.

Maybe one day someone will figure out how to do it without sacrificing quality or operating what amounts to a charity but that day hasn't come.