Which shows a lack of priorities. The point is that doing all this, bringing in kids who either don’t belong or don’t care ruin it for others trying to get an education.

Fans that have no other attachment to the university than sports can still give those teams money and stop the farce of acting like they actually give damn about the university itself, which is an academic institution.

Again, let these fans privately fund these teams without association to the university or any university owned property. If universities want, they could lease out their stadiums to these minor league teams, but they should otherwise not be associated with the university.

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Posted on 5/19/24 at 1:47 pm to bamameister

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I would suggest that this business model has reached its soon-to-be demise.

There are several challenges in CFB right now.

1. There are thousands (even tens of thousands) of students enrolled at every major university across the country. Nobody cares if 85 of them can't spell their name as long as they can win football games.

2. Coaching salaries have gone insane. $10,000,000+ a year to coach an amateur sport at an institute of higher learning is ridiculous. Even assistant coaches are making north of $1,000,000 a year.

3. Most college coaches aren't successful because they beat everyone with X's and O's wizardry but because they are better at recruiting. It is ultimately the players that make the difference. And if I am Johnny Heisman sitting in a room with a $10,000,000 HC, a $1,000,000 OC, and $500,000 QB coach all making money off my heroics while I am supposed to be content with a scholarship, I wouldn't like that either.

The coaches can bitch about NIL all they like, but their eagerness to sign all of these astronomical contracts (and often move around to do it) has motivated the players to want money as much as anything else. If all the coaches were making low six figures, the players might not be so greedy.

4. The world has changed a lot, not just college football. We now have 20-year-old social media stars making bank that would have been anonymous college students a generation ago. All of that is essentially NIL, and I don't think it's fair for athletes to not be able to profit from it simply because they are enrolled in college. The tricky part is people buying players through it. But hey, if an oil tycoon wants to indirectly pay Johnny Heisman seven figures to go to Texas, good for him.

5. With or without NIL and the Transfer Portal, the wealthiest teams are going to win anyway. Why do you think programs have been spending millions to hire high profile coaches, build a new weight room or locker room every few years, and miniature golf courses and arcades and all that shite? It is to impress recruits. If all the players were zoned for certain schools (like in high school) the facilities arms race wouldn't have been nearly as intense.

Programs have been indirectly buying players for a long time now.

6. The only thing I think NIL/TP will change going forward is it may not be quite as important to get that Nick Saban or Kirby Smart or Pete Carroll or Urban Meyer type of coach (the elite recruiters) that is usually what decides which of the best 15 or so programs (the ones with all the resources) is on top at any given time. The HC will still matter very much if they have a good track record of getting players to the NFL, but it isn't going to matter as much as before.

Ultimately, I think the only real problem with it all is fans will get their feelings hurt over some moves - like Isaiah Bond (hero of the Iron Bowl) leaving Bama for Texas. I honestly don't think the fans care if Johnny Heisman makes $10,000,000 in NIL money as long as they think he cares about Alabama or Ohio State or UCLA (or wherever) as much as they do. And that would be understandable IF the fans cared as much about the individual players as they do winning - which they don't.

The coaches care more about money than they do the school and players, the players care more about opportunity than they do the school and coaches, and the fans care more about winning than they do the players and coaches.

You can forget about loyalty from anyone in CFB. The fans are no different.

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