re: Boston College HC Jeff Hafley leaves to become Green Bay's DC

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Except that's just another iteration of an NCAA-like governing org, which still can't overstep court rulings on NIL and transfers.

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What’s being proposed and will likely happen in the future will make both of them irrelevant. The major conferences are going to leave the NCAA. That’s no surprise and it’s been predicted to happen, or at least be a nuclear option, for a while. The real key will be the athletic departments severing all ties with the universities. That’s the key because it does away with Title IX, ends the influence of NIL and Collectives, and also ends the portal. If the teams are no longer part of a federally-funded education system, all of these things vanish into thin air.

At this point you have a pro league that will license the names, colors and logos from the schools and lease the facilities. This will put money back into the schools so they are still benefiting from the arrangement. There will be a collective bargaining agreement between this new entity and a players’ union that will hammer out the new landscape. It will be direct pay from teams to players with formal contracts. The players can say goodbye to free movement and unregulated pay negotiated for each season. NIL will be replaced by players signing outside endorsement deals and building their own brands, but the Collectives and pay for play will be replaced with a set pay scale and contracts with mandated minimum lengths.

The major hurdle will be getting the NFL on board. I doubt that will be a major problem, but the new entity will have to appease them by keeping similar eligibility limits so flow of talent to the NFL Draft isn’t affected. If the NFL were to change the draft age, that could kill this whole thing, but they seem to like things how they are today. They’ve made it clear they they don’t want to pay to run a second division league and will be happy to continue benefiting from players being developed in “college” football, as long as it doesn’t step on their toes.

The players have been talking about how they want revenue sharing. Once they get it, I think they are going to regret how much it really costs them. But at least this will bring some order back to the chaos that college football has become.