re: Mike Leach: about buying recruits(players)

Here’s the majority of the future competitive schools-

PAC-
USC (Southern Cal media market)
UCLA (Same)
Oregon (Nike)

SEC
TAMU (oil money)
Alabama (football heritage saves them)

ACC
Nobody

Big 12
Oklahoma (oil money, heritage)
Oklahoma Sate (oil money)
Texas (size, oil money, heritage)

Big 10
OSU (size, heritage)
PSU (same)
Michigan (same)
Maryland (under armor)

Independents
Notre Dame (heritage, large fan base d/t catholic support)

Leach is right.
College basketball players have been endorsed by shoe companies going back to the 80's and any worthy NCAA team has coaches that have been a part of it, and you can't tell me the head coaches have turned a blind eye to it, they just put it on the assistants as the runner between shoe company and player.

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I'm not feeling the financially driven competition extinction catastrophe narrativ

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That’s wishful thinking. It’s already in action for you to see if you just look. Your examples are NCAA basketball which has been dying a slow death for years, NBA small market teams, and MLB small market teams. They can’t compete and fan bases have dried up over the past 30+years.

It is a terrible idea just because of the loop holes. It will destroy the sport and all of those kids who received an education and a better life through college football will get zero. So, what's it all really worth?

Left wing cock suckers always think they're ahead of the curve and act like they want what's best but in reality it could blow the entire sport up which would destroy any opportunity a lot of underprivileged kids have to get an education through football. Many think nowadays that college is worthless and these kids are being taken advantage of but you can ask the majority of former college football players and they will tell you it was the best thing that ever happened to them.

Just take a percentage of the income that athletic departments receive and give it to the players. Of course that would put a dent in some pockets so we can't have that.

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That’s wishful thinking. It’s already in action for you to see if you just look. Your examples are NCAA basketball which has been dying a slow death for years, NBA small market teams, and MLB small market teams. They can’t compete and fan bases have dried up over the past 30+years.

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So you're OK with Dabo making $9MM per yr and the players that help him win those games capped at Tuition, Room , and Board

The money in CFB has been out of control for years now, and the only issue that causes fans like you angst is when the players that generate those windfalls demand to be compensated MORE FAIRLY

In the NFL a labor Union collectively bargains with ownership for fair treatment, fair pay in that marketplace, something that all courts have upheld

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You think this socialist crap is a good idea

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I hate socialism and my history here proves that. However this is a wrong comparison.

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As long as Leach & his agent can benefit from a free market to get him millions in salary, then it is real easy for him to get righteous about someone else's potential money

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This backwards, though I agree coaches are way over paid.

Stanford is one of if not the TOP Civil Engineering schools in the nation. There are reasons for that. The people they hire etc. That attracts some of the top students wanting to enter that field, it attracts more money from donors and in tuition.

You are in a round about way stating that all students going there SHOULD be paid in line with the professors and more.

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I don't know if this new system will be a bad thing but I think most people are under estimating how massive the money will be.

I also think the grad transfer portal is going to be a highway of transfers. Undergrad transfers are going to be FAR more common.

Every player 3-star and higher will have a guaranteed payment contract. Most 2-stars will sign contracts.

I've read journalists trying to declare this isn't pay for play. That's a semantics argument of who's paying. The school isn't paying but the booster club is signing contracts at the direction of the coach and AD.

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Question:

Do you get this worried when an Asst Coach or a Coordinator leaves and goes to an in Conference Rival?

A Coordinator that makes $1.5MM per year can act like a free agent and the fans say nothing, but those same fans are up in arms about Grad transfers and Undergrad transfers

So what?

Regular college students have free movement and go to whatever college will accept them, why not Athletes, after all the NCAA loves to claim that the STUDENT part of Student- Athlete is more important, if it really is, then give them total Free Agency like regular Students get

When they ask for money the NCAA says, "you're a student and an amateur" then when they say can I transfer without sitting out for a year, then the NCAA treats them like a Pro Athlete and points to all the legalese in their contracts

The NCAA is a corrupt, hypocritical Org, hard to believe that any common sense HUMAN could take sides with the NCAA over the players

What?

Regular students sitting in a lecture hall don't generate BILLIONS in TV dollars, Athletes in FB & MBB do

There is no comparison, please stop comparing these big money Athletes at these big money schools to regular college students that generate very little if any money for their schools

85 FB players and 13 MBB players gross $200MM per year for Alabama's Athl Dept, find another group of 100 students that comes close to that

Lotsa CFB fans really don't understand the financials behind big time College sports