re: Kirk Herbstreit worried for college football: "What the hell is happening to our sport?"

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To remedy these issues, I would allow players to make money in college by profiting off of their own name, image and likeness. If you still think college football is all about amateurism these days, especially at big programs, I don't know

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Will only make it worse.

Let’s say you have an High End Booster that is currently helping out the football program at school via purely honest means - buying expensive suites, making huge donations for new facilities, volunteering all of the resources to help above the board. Let’s say they are spending anywhere between 500k and a million in a given year, not including those huge donations every few years for new/upgraded facilities. The whole reason why he throws that extra money in the pot beyond suite costs is to help entice recruits to come to your school. Well now players can be paid to endorse products and do advertisements. Why donate that money to do facilities when I can just outright pay the top guys to come to my school? Not every recruit is a highly sought after national recruit. I’m not going to throw a $50k ad offer to a recruit whose scholarship offer list is whatever P5 school HEB supports and a bunch of middling G5 schools.

That will create a divide in the locker room as well, especially when you have mix of 4-6 high end national recruits and 15 or so guys who regional/state level recruits. And what’s the promise you’ll make to a 5-star guy? Are you paying them just to sign? Are you telling them I’ll pay you after you sign and prove yourself? What if you sign a 5-star linebacker under the promise you’ll pay him when he makes an all-freshman/all-conference team and through his first two seasons, he only plays sparingly here and there? Does he bail? What other school’s HEB is going to pay you, especially if you shunned their offer on the initial go around?

It’s a huge clusterfrick that creates exponentially more problems than it solves all because liberals have some bullshite need for “fair”. The fair comes around every fall, get your elephant ear and foot long corn dog then and leave college football alone.

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I would allow players to make money in college by profiting off of their own name, image and likeness

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Does the school get a cut?

Will it be reimbursed for the scholarship money, the room and board, medical care, etc.?

What about the vast majority of kids that will never play in the pros?

What about everyone's favorite law (Title IX)?

The so called "problem" is the solution. There needs to be a reset and return to true amateurism.

There's a reason I prefer MAC and FCS games.