re: At what point does NIL just completely ruin College Football?

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Because you don’t give immature teenagers millions of dollars when they haven’t proven a thing. Plus kids that age have no idea how to manage money like that.

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I don’t disagree, but if you believe these kids and their families haven’t been getting paid under the table for years now then you haven’t been paying attention. The money has been there all along, it’s just coming out in the open.

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It’s a recipe for disaster and college football will be absolutely ruined within 5 years or less. If you think NIL is better for college football then I guess you are just a fool. We can’t help you.

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Certainly it’s hurting the game, but what has hurt the fans the most is television. It controls the sport. It funds all of these huge coach’s salaries. It funds the Taj Majals. It is the entity that destroyed many of our traditions. It has added an hour or more to each game, It controls everything. That started the downfall. At least for ticket holders.

When there’s that much money involved the players are bound to get theirs one way or another. Pretending it’s amateur athletics for everyone but the players is idiotic. I don’t have the answer, but it isn’t to go back and pretend a scholarship compensates the players fairly because the free market says otherwise.