re: BayouTraditions and similar NIL “collectives” are offensive.

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Why the frick should these guys still have to actually make grades and go to class? Just expand the professional leagues.

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The idea that these players have any value outside the college setting is laughable.

There has never been a successful minor league sports league in United States history, without heavy subsidies from the parent league.

People do not want, or need, minor league sports.

College sports has been the outlier, because of its connection to universities. People care about LSU because they went to LSU, grew up watching LSU, their kids go to LSU, etc.

The idea that that connection would still exist if the ties between the universities and the athletic programs was severed is absurd.

People are making a serious error in market analysis by thinking that the success of college athletics is anything but fandom of the UNIVERSITY.

Does anyone think that the Baton Rouge Tigers, with the exact same roster as LSU, would have any level of commercial success? There is no track record of that being true, ever.