Why are some fan bases scared of the NCAA losing power?

I personally could care less if the NCAA exists or not.

The part of the NCAA lawsuit that I don't like isn't about the NCAA losing power. I simply believe that enforcing a prohibition on paying recruits to come to a school would be good for college football. I think it's a good rule that should be enforced strongly. I'm disappointed that pay for play is going to be how it works in college football going forward.

If whatever organization runs college football could prevent any NIL contracts from having any conditions that effectively require a player to attend a particular college, I think it would fix 95% of the problems that exist with NIL.

I'm a bit disappointed that as soon as the NCAA tried to enforce that rule, the rule effectively got thrown away.

It's not the end of the world, but I think it's bad for the sport.

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I simply believe that enforcing a prohibition on paying recruits to come to a school would be good for college football. I think it's a good rule that should be enforced strongly. I'm disappointed that pay for play is going to be how it works in college football going forward.

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Sounds like communist talk to me.

No one cares if NCAA bites dust. CFB fans should care about what replaces it. I personally hope that P5 schools separate and only play each other while the smaller programs take on more realistic budgets, not subsidized by being punching dummies for bigger programs and can actually compete for their own championship.

Share revenue through video games and TV where the Conferences employ the players and can legally enforce transfer and NIL rules. No more collectives. With exceptions(physical job, podcasts, commercials, social media, etc) players cannot receive payments from outside sources.

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The part of the NCAA lawsuit that I don't like isn't about the NCAA losing power. I simply believe that enforcing a prohibition on paying recruits to come to a school would be good for college football.

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If UGA couldn’t pay players it wouldn’t have much of their roster. Walker was paid to attend UGA (1980 title and run) and Kirby is coaching a roster of paid players since he got to UGA. You don’t believe those recruiting classes are anything but bought do you? Pruitt half assed buying recruits that UGA paid full price for. Mimms was just one of dozens of bought and paid for recruits from those years.

fricking hypocrite.

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Sounds like communist talk to me.

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Because you're stupid and don't understand capitalism or communism.

The idea people voluntarily grouping together and adhering to certain standards to produce a product is somehow communism where people are forced to do things in order to be productive for the state is outright ignorant.

I hope you didn't pay for whatever education you got.

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Schools that stayed back in the NIL situation at the absolute beginning are learning more. No NIL deal will ever require going to a certain school, but they can require a certain amount of selective appearances that will make it hard to be at another school. They can even require living in an area. What good does it do MBOBR if Angel is driving her big body Benz somewhere outside of BR?

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The actual bylaw for the NCAA says that NIL deals cannot contain any "inducements" to attend a particular school.

No NIL deals say "you have to go to X school". But having appearance requirements that require you to live in the town a school is in can be viewed as an "inducement" to attend that school. And the NCAA was using that to go after Tennessee.

Doesn't matter now as the courts are removing that (which is really the only NIL rule in the NCAA bylaws). But it's wrong to think that it had to be spelled out in the NIL contract to be a violation of that now meaningless rule.

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If UGA couldn’t pay players it wouldn’t have much of their roster. Walker was paid to attend UGA (1980 title and run) and Kirby is coaching a roster of paid players since he got to UGA. You don’t believe those recruiting classes are anything but bought do you? Pruitt half assed buying recruits that UGA paid full price for. Mimms was just one of dozens of bought and paid for recruits from those years.

fricking hypocrite.

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There's a reason UGA wasn't being investigated for buying players and Tennessee was.

It's not because of some conspiracy theory about UGA owning the NCAA. The simple truth is UGA didn't buy players and Tennessee did.

UGA did buy Hershcel Walker a camaro though. But that was 40+ years ago. UGA has never been even rumored as one of the schools that paid players. Most of our issues have been players getting in trouble for trying to get money like players selling autographs, game jerseys or championship rings.

That's what happens when schools DON'T pay their players and they try to get money in other ways.

I'm constantly amused by the accusations of buying players when even rumors of such behavior are difficult to find, let alone actual evidence of anything.

I guess if it makes you feel better to think UGA's success comes from cheating you're welcome to do so. It's just amusing that the actual evidence of cheating points to your program.

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Are they scared of the collectives of schools with larger checkbooks?

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Yes

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You can thank the Nick Sabans and Kirby Smarts for the change

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What a dumbass opinion

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It's not an opinion. It's a fact.

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Because you're stupid and don't understand capitalism or communism. The idea people voluntarily grouping together and adhering to certain standards to produce a product is somehow communism where people are forced to do things in order to be productive for the state is outright ignorant. I hope you didn't pay for whatever education you got.

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Oh my God you thought I was being 100% serious.

Hahahahhahahahah