My how the chickens have come home to roost!

It’s a pure Capitalistic environment at this point. Let it continue and the market will settle. No need to over regulate it. Let it ride.

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Let it continue and the market will settle. No need to over regulate it. Let it ride.

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This is my sentiment at the moment. I believe it will balance out eventually.

If in 5-7 years it is still looking like it does now, or has gotten worse, then I'll start worrying or stop caring.

I would be more sympathetic to your rant if coaches and now even assistant coaches were not making millions a year. (Highest paid person public employee in the state in most cases)

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It’s a pure Capitalistic environment at this point. Let it continue and the market will settle

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Back to the haves and the haves not to an unbelievable degree with no regulation. Player's being screwed was actually healthy for the sport from a fan's viewpoint...it was trying to level the playing field as much as possible. With see no evil, hear no evil policy, this current system will exacerbate the divide...and the sport will be left to those who care to an unreasonable level.

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I would be more sympathetic to your rant if coaches and now even assistant coaches were not making millions a year. (Highest paid person public employee in the state in most cases)

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Exactly!! At the end of the day the NCAA, the schools, the conferences and the coaches have only themselves to blame for this situation.

NCAA and conferences signing TV contracts for hundreds of millions of dollars. Companies like EA Sports making millions of dollars off player's likeness without any compensation to the players. Local companies making millions off home football game weekends. Coaches making millions of dollars each year.

Only a fool would not expect that the players (the ones actually creating the product that was producing the money) wouldn't want in on the money.

Honestly at this point football just needs to be split off from all other sports. Drop the pretense of student athlete, no one really cares anyway. Just make them employees.

In many ways that would be better. The players wouldn't have to go to class anymore but they also wouldn't be offered a free education anymore either. They want to attend classes, they get the standard employee discount. They have to sign a year contract each year and have to contribute a certain amount premium to their medical insurance each paycheck and pay taxes. The schools can compete by how much they want to pay the player.

I don't like what college football is becoming but maybe if the NCAA, the conferences, the schools and the players didn't get utterly greedy and make millions off the sport this wouldn't have happened.

I think a split off is inevitable. You get about 60 now Division 1 FBS schools that formally split off from the NCAA for football and form their own superleague and it becomes NFL 0.5.

The other schools stay in the NCAA and all agree to largely go back to the old system and end the NIL stuff. So you'll have the smaller schools that will offer more of the traditional college football and then the big school will essentially offer NFL 0.5.

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I like it. College football is all about money so let the money flow.

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I disagree. I think the level of money that made college football what it is today grew from school pride. There was an irrational amount of money flowing into the programs which can only be explained by something irrational in terms of investment return.

There was a relationship there between players and fans that wasn’t purely transactional that I imagine will dissipate as the years go on, seems that way already.

Fan support is the primary revenue driver. Gambling has become a a prominent secondary driver in the past few years and will affect where things settle. How to see the level of revenue continuing, at least in the ways it has in the past.

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any person with a braim knew it was already happening. it's just in the open now. saban won bc he bought the players. simple as that.

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Good point, however, I think it's definitely worse now.

I think most people are just pissed about the transfer portal and not NIL

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Anyone with a pulse knew this was coming.

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It’s true. Fact of the matter is there is just not that much money in a college players’ image or likeness. Most any that they have is tied strongly, if not directly, to the school.

The here are probably 5-10 total college athletes at any given time that could make significant money off their likeness.

So NIL has taken the role of paying for services, but the money doesn’t come from the entity that they are providing the services to. Disjointed system with misaligned interests.