re: Are the “powers in charge” trying to kill college football?

I fear the “powers” have already ruined college football. They will not be able to put the genie back in the bottle. Certain programs, like Texas, have historically shown for decades they will ruin any conference, any semblance, of fair competition for money. The NCAA is totally at fault. They sold these kids NIL for years. That should have never been allowed. But now NIL is signing up high school kids for millions. Texas has a $20,000,000, Lamborghini driving backfield, with millions already committed to high school kids. Their backfield is priced higher than most NFL teams. Alabama and Nick Saban bitch bitterly about any change or parity in college football that threatens them. A poor school like LSU commits 100s of millions for about 85 so called student athletes. The overwhelming majority of whom will never graduate or play professionally. Basically what is being set up is another professional football league, highly paid, that is using, for the most part, taxpayer funded university facilities and resources. The “powers” are using the excitement, aura, game day experience...to promote a new professional league. The solution is like the NFL. A draft and a salary cap. All 5 & 4 stars should be subject to a draft if they wish to participate in NIL money. They have to play for the team that drafted them. A salary cap puts the teams on level playing field. Those players not opting for NIL money are free to play for any program for scholarships and a monthly stipend as they used to. Playing for pride, or a program has already been wiped out. The players and teams want to play for money, establish the sane procedure as the NFL.