If players become employees, why would they continue to be students?

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The NCAA is done

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And another that doesn't know what, or who, the NCAA is.

Just make their actual sport be their major, no less strenuous or useful than an actual sports admin degree

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If they are employees, they don't need scholarships.

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So baseball gets full scholarships and men get to add sports like lacrossse, wrestling, soccer, etc.

College football will be dead soon and all the greed from every side involved will kill it

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I mean, why continue the charade of being students? If they unionize, then they are employees and should be treated as such. Having them do tests and school work at that point is silly. They are professionals in this situation.

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It would become a condition of their employment, so yes they would still be a student.

When I attended the University of Texas I had a job with Rec Sports. I checked IDs and assigned tennis courts. I was paid by the school, received a partial scholarship from the state and was still a student.

Athletes can be employees and students with scholarships. The only difference is these students are worth more, and will be paid more, than I ever was. I don't mind it. That is the market at work.

The biggest shock to me, the more I learn about SEC fans, is how most are Communists who hate capitalism and hate kids (especially poor kids) earning what they are worth. I bet you guys love Nancy Pelosi and all of the elitists who think it is fine for them to use the system to get rich but everyone else needs to stay poor.

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When I attended the University of Texas I had a job with Rec Sports. I checked IDs and assigned tennis courts. I was paid by the school, received a partial scholarship from the state and was still a student. Athletes can be employees and students with scholarships. The only difference is these students are worth more, and will be paid more, than I ever was. I don't mind it. That is the market at work. The biggest shock to me, the more I learn about SEC fans, is how most are Communists who hate capitalism and hate kids (especially poor kids) earning what they are worth. I bet you guys love Nancy Pelosi and all of the elitists who think it is fine for them to use the system to get rich but everyone else needs to stay poor.

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You’re barking up the wrong tree. Fans aren’t getting rich off players. It’s the NIL wall the collectives are hiding behind. It’s pay for play, and now it looks like a student athlete can transfer at will to another school. Its not students that are athletes anymore.

Make it a condition of employment

If NIL isn't regulated and enforced ( I think it will be) then I think major college football will fail.

The new SEC tv contract with ESPN, to begin in 2024, will pay each team apx 64 million per year. Unfortunately, expenses for each program are around 150 million per year. If it gets to the point that the vast majority of teams can't consitently compete then programs will lose a lot of money, and eventually drop out. There will be leagues of non scholarship teams, like The Ivy League.

If boosters aren't prevented from buying players, I see minor leage NFL in our future.

edit to note that minor leage NFL teams with players from the geographical regions would be fun to watch. It would retain a lot of what the colleges offer without the farce of being real students. Wouldn't even have to have state names. Instead of Florida Bobcats, Michigan Lakers, Arizona Antelopes, could just be Bobcats, Lakers, Antelopes, with teams of players from states in that general geographical region.