cardboardboxer

I mean we stole him from TCU.

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This settlement will get blown up within the next 12 months and it will all start again.

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Exactly.

The only point of this settlement is to get a framework that Congress can use for legislation. That is when this ends, when Congress changes the rules around employees to allow college football to have its cake and eat it too.

In trade Congress will likely ask for three things:

1. That many states are represented in the future superconference the legislation will defacto build. The fantasies where its just the Big 10 as is and the SEC as is won't have the political capital needed, those two conferences will need the votes of senators from the states covered by the Big 12, the ACC and maybe even the rebuilt PAC to get the legislation pushed through. The superconference will have around 70 programs in it at the end of the day, and some of those will be subsidized by the larger programs.

2. Women's sports are protected on the funding side, and given a dedicated percentage of the eventually salary cap that is higher than ADs would willingly give (get ready for like 10-15% for women).

3. Some sort of funding towards an apparatus to provide ongoing healthcare to players and former players not tied to their salaries (aka just more the ADs have to spend, not carve outs of the salary cap).

And college football as a whole will be happy to make these changes, because the House ruling was only giving players 22% of all revenues compared to 48% in the NFL.

If Congress doesn't act and this all gets collective bargained instead the number will get much closer to the NFL number and college football will have to be divorced from ADs to save all other college sports.

It does seem like the programs that upgraded prior to NiL will have the advantage with facilities, but on the other hand facilities won't be as important for recruiting.

Some of the facilities- practice fields, nutrition centers, etc. - were sold on the concept that they would make the team better (compared to say the locker rooms with TVs that just exist to impress recruits). I guess we will see if any of that actually works when the playing field is more even.

frick that, Texas thought they were too good for the SEC then.

They only changed their mind when our entrance enabled the SEC (mostly Saban) to drain the Texas talent into the SEC.

And he lost to FSU when no one else (but Charleston Southern) did.

House money from here on out

Weird melt

That wasn't about money by the time he left. He hated our AD.

Its top four and everyone else.

Our beer is a lot like German beer