Oklahoma and Georgia started all this

It's true. I think the year was 1985 or '86. Never dreamed it would end up like this. Nobody did.

Dayum, when and where the heck was this?

80s. NCAA spent a lot effort trying to punish OU for this.

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$8 ticket

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Dayum, when and where the heck was this?

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I was being charitable to the lesser teams. Elite games, of course, were subject to a premium.

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There was a time when only a couple of games were televised each week. You wanted to see your team? Go buy your $8 ticket and watch it in person.

The NCAA had it all under control.

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Yeah, watching college football all day Saturday on multiple TVs sucks.

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Dayum, when and where the heck was this?

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lol, yeah $8 might get you a beer, now.

frick off. If it wasn’t for us you’d only see Alabama, Ohio St, and ND play every weekend

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Oklahoma and Georgia started all this
I think most will agree that dollars are driving this, and TV’s are driving the dollars.

There was a time when only a couple of games were televised each week. You wanted to see your team? Go buy your $8 ticket and watch it in person.

The NCAA had it all under control.

Then, like so many other times, the lawyers fricked it all up. Georgia and Oklahoma sued the NCAA to break their stranglehold on TV scheduling. Went all the way to SCOTUS, who ruled in their favor.

The floodgates were opened, and here we are now.

Thanks, guys. Well done.

(Not gonna dig for it, but safe to assume there might have been a Texas/Alabama “media darling” factor in all this.)

UPI article from back in the day

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Old news for us older farts. That ruling has its roots back in the 1970's. Several Historical markers. Prior to President Nixon Signing Title IX in the Summer of 1972, schools would sign 35 to 40 players and teams at SEC, SWC, BIG8, etc would have rosters of 140 to 150.


After 1972 Title IX, the easiest way to comply with Title IX was to put restrictions on Scholarships for football.
1) Historical marker 1: In 1973, limit was set at 105

2) NCAA since 1953 controlled College football and starting with ABC getting it in about 1966, TV ratings began to grow. 1969, first prime time game (Bama and Ole Miss) and by the 1970's ABC TV revenues were growing. The NCAA restricted how many times you can be on TV (national) I think to 6 times in a 2 year period. To

3) The President of Long Beach State in 1975 proposed taking all the NCAA football money and allowing the D1 (which was then maybe 65-70 schools) to keep 50% and giving 25% to D2 and 25% to D3 and put scholarships at 65. The Big schools threatened back then to form a 4th division but NCAA threatened, etc, they backed off. Scholarships were set at 95 and TV money was not allocated.

4) By 1980 some 130 schools now in D1 (to try to get NCAA D1 TV money). The SEC, SWC, BIG8, ACC and Notre Dame formed the CFA, BIG10/PAC10 formed an alliance and NCAA football was split between CBS and ABC, more money started flowing in but the NCAA still did not allow teams to negotiate on their own. And OU and UGA started doing pay for view with local Cable providers to televise their home games in their own respective states when they were not on NCAA sponsored College Football. The NCAA sued an the SCOTUS ruled 7-2 in favor of UGA and OU on the grounds that the NCAA was violating the "Sherman Anti Trust Act"

So at that point, the entire basis of the NCAA was on shaky constitutional grounds. Nobody threated to pull away but it did bring about teams and Conferences negotiating TV deals. I remember the SEC having deals with Turners WTBS Superstation in the late 1980's (Bob Neal was the Announcer, did the Braves games back then).

SWC starts to implode, Arkansas leaves for the SEC in 1991, Roy Kramer finds that he can have a playoff game (SEC makes more Money) and no surprise the NCAA puts in a 85 Scholarship limit in 1992.

Lots of other rules came into place, like how large a teams Media guide could be (unfair recruiting advantage) what you could put into it (unfair recruiting advantage) how many on field coaches you can have, etc.

June of this year, SCOTUS 9-0 ruled against NCAA on NIL on "Anti Trust grounds"

So writing the obituary of the NCAA, the 1970's was the starting point and 1984 SCOTUS was the first legal ruling that pointed to the NCAA's amateur model being on shaky grounds. And as TV money grew, coaches salaries grew, etc, etc, there is no surprise we got to here.

The late great SI sportswriter Frank Deford predicted the NCAA would implode as far back as 1975. Check out this article.


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College football didn't die today or with the playoffs..it died in the summer of 1984.

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Damn that’s a long and well attended funeral.

I remember buying eight-dollar tickets

In 1987

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frick off. If it wasn’t for us you’d only see Alabama, Ohio St, and ND play every weekend

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Cool your tits, Nancy. It’s a discussion board post. Nobody is going to hurt you.