re: Last Week Tonight With John Oliver hammered the NCAA

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If there was a farm system for football like there is for baseball, I guarantee you college football would go the way of college baseball. You'd see a game or two on TV every now and then, but it wouldn't be the multi-billion dollar behemoth it is today. The same goes for basketball.

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The NBA has a system it is called the NBDL, it was the CBA until Isiah Thomas bankrupted it.

Football can not have a system due to the nature of the sport and the cost associated with it. No NFL club is going to bankroll that and the NFLPA would never go for that.

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not the norm in most cases.

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Based on what? Where are you getting this from?

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I tend to think that players should get paid because they are making the schools money.

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Who is going to pay the players? The schools? With what money?

How many schools make enough money from sports like basketball and football to cover all operating costs and then a stipend for all players?

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I can guarantee you The University of Alabama would not be what it is today without its football program. Do you want to know why President Denny's name is all over that campus? It's because he launched a massive ad campaign in northern newspapers to bring their kids south to study at Alabama.

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Eh maybe, you don't know. How many schools have made it without football? Has Dartmouth ever been good? Where would Stanford be without its football program? Probably just as awesome as they are now in academics.

The fact that there are plenty of schools who are successful and don't focus on sports proves that sports aren't the only way to build a big university.

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The football team. Even today you get massive amounts of students from states north of the Mason-Dixon coming to UA. Their reasoning? "My family has always gone here."

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So their reason wasn't football, it was legacy? So football's impact isn't as big as you think?

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Now, if you want to argue about the external dollars that the power of sports as a marketing tool brings in, that's yes, another discussion. But don't act like...

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I wasn't ignoring that fact.

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Just allow them to profit off their likeness.

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This, I bet a lot of people would be happy with this.

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this is one of the most ridiculous statements I have ever read. first of all it shows you don't even know what the NCAA is. no one can "disassociate" from it. the colleges actually are ones that created the NCAA. if you are saying the colleges should get together and dissolve the NCAA you are kidding yourself. without rules we are left with anarchy. sure, you don't like the NCAA but just imagine college athletics without a third party regulating it. even the pro's have a regulatory system.

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First, you're looking to deep into it. All I mean is figuring out a way to separate the two. And yes, I know how the NCAA works.

Third, Is the NCAA just a regulatory body anymore? No.

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advocating destroying schollies just so we can have an NFL minor league system is insane. MOST college schollies go to minor sport athletes.

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Advocating is a strong word. But when you start paying players you're going to run into a LOT of problems. More than you seem think. Paying players will destroy the scholarship system as well, and it will be deemed unfair for the most part. And it will kill small colleges. Paying players is not a simple thing.

Here are my concerns:

Paying players for autographs, jerseys, etc
- Does that open up a way for boosters to pay players?
- If one player is getting paid royalties from merchandise/likeness while another player isn't, how does that affect team chemistry? The All-American Senior Left Tackle isn't going to have a lot of jerseys sold while the 5 star freshman QB who hasn't had a snap probably could. Does a player have any recourse if they feel like the school isn't doing what they can to maximize that player's profitability.
- If we are going to give players $ from jerseys sales in retail stores, who determines what jerseys are going to be sold?
- If we're talking about compensation for playing, does every player on every team make the same? Does the Heisman candidate at USC make the same as the back-up long snapper at La Tech?
- Could every program afford to pay players or would some be forced to shut down their program?

The companies are not going to be giving them money. So the school will end up having to pay them. Do you even understand how that works?

Wait now its a local car dealership? First it was EA Sports and 2K video games. So when Fletcher Kia in Arkansas tells Fournette come to Arkansas for 375k per commercial and he says okay, you are okay with that?

Yes I understand how profits from video games are split up.

The NFLPA collective bargained that percentage also they are inside individual endorsement contracts.

If you want the Southwest Conference again, go for it. But it will be the quickest way to destroy an entity.