re: Tennessee “'talent fee'

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Some people just have zero foresight.

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Says the guy who thinks college football will lose interest.

For the very little people it’ll turn off, it will bring in 2x new viewers.

Exactly. NIL was strictly players getting endorsements while playing…. Want to do an autograph signing for tops or panini. Shake hands a local car dealership or restaurant. Not how much 2 mill? Raising ticket prices.

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For the very little people it’ll turn off, it will bring in 2x new viewers.

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You mean it'll become your NFL on Saturday, because your NFL on Sunday isn't enough.

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No one has the ability, the belief, the will, or the energy to even think any of it can be enforced.

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Correct, I believe.

The sport is going to continue hurtling along its present course. Were there some truly authoritative central body that could control and direct it, reforms could be implemented.

But of course there’s nothing at all even approaching that.

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Which is why the player earnings stayed the same after the restrictions were lifted, right?

Cam Newton brought Auburn a title for $250K. How much would he have cost had he come out of high school last year? Feel free to adjust for inflation.

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They did stay the same. NIL is not done by the schools themselves.

Players are not getting big checks from Alabama, Texas or any other schools. Cam Newton did not get a single check from Auburn.

What you seem to struggle with is the fact that people and organizations are free to come to agreements for competitive reasons to make a product. These restrictions are not artificial, they are voluntary and done for a purpose.

What's next, the NFL/NBA/MLB are no longer allowed to have a salary cap? Why do they do it? Because they would have a shitty product if they didn't, and in the end they would all make less money if they were even able to stay in business.

The fact people think capitalism means no rules at all just shows how far our education system has slipped. You can actually form a communistic community under capitalism and it's perfectly fine. It's when it's no longer voluntary that it becomes an issue and the NCAA is 100% voluntary.

And yet, what you claim to be non artificial is actually 100% artificial and created by government interference.

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I blame on it the Left.

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Ironically the free market is the reason for this situation as well.

I think most normal people can agree that someone should be able to make money off their own name.... signing footballs, doing advertisements, etc if someone is willing to pay them to do that.

But since there isn't a specific clause that there must be monetary exchange for an actual good or service, schools and donors decided to just pay the players for nothing or next to nothing tangible in exchange, and that created an arms race in the CFB "market".

Even if we try to backtrack and put a clause in there to prevent players essentially being on a salary, it'll get challenged in court and the players will win.

I guess that's a longwinded way of saying that even though leftist ideals opened the door, free market ideals will likely keep it open.

The best we can hope for at this point is for one super conference with all the players getting an equal share of revenue, collectives to be banned, and then they would still be allowed to sign autographs, make appearances, etc for money but those probably go through a clearinghouse or something best case scenario.

Them not being able to use their own name for money was morally incorrect, but I think the current setup clearly is as well.

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The NCAA just decided to give up trying anything.

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I respect your posts, but I'm thinking you're on the younger side, and haven't lived through multiple decades of the NCAA getting caught up in losing battles trying to keep schools in line.

It was a lost freaking cause, and you weren't going to do anything to places like Oklahoma or Alabama.

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I’d much rather a college athlete get paid than some shadow committee behind the scenes.

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Fine. But some institutions have more money than others.

There is no competition without parity. That's called a side show.

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Says the guy who thinks college football will lose interest. For the very little people it’ll turn off, it will bring in 2x new viewers.

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College football is maxed out. But a decline will happen if all the smaller schools drop football because of costs and no rent a wins from major programs. MAC schools for example won’t be able to sustain the growth. It might not sound like much and a lot people will cheer the only conference game schedules but when you take entire regions of the country and make them into casual fans you are killing future growth. ABC/ESPN spent a boat load on SEC contract knowing they make their money back in SEC country, they make their money on other regions.

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Ironically the free market is the reason for this situation as well.

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No, it's not.

What's behind it was government came in and disrupted the free market.