re: NCAA loses ability to enforce NIL policy in Tennessee and Virginia

The main reason people are so butt hurt about this is that they think since the fans “pay the bills” and support the programs so strongly, their interests and desires should be paramount and players should be happy and satisfied to basically be peons and gladiators putting their asses on the line for the fans’ enjoyment.

And the fans’ interests and desires are not being considered here, and will never be considered here ever again.

Fans quote the value of a scholarship, etc., which is probably legitimately astronomical in their frame of reference for dealing with things, but in the reality of how much money is floating around in the sport today is microscopic.

This has always, under the minutiae of federal law, which doesn’t give three cacas about the competitive sports aspect, been a house of cards that was destined to collapse once the right challenge was filed in the right venue.

Absent a contractual situation, which is where I think we’re headed whether it specifically labels the players as employees or not, there is nothing that can be done to restrain players’ earnings from their talents or their ability to take their talents elsewhere. Tuberville who isn’t objective is the only person yapping otherwise in Congress, and I will note to you that the last Supreme Court ruling relevant to this was 9-0 for the players.

I don’t disagree with anyone who says “it’s destroyed college football as it was.” It absolutely has. But it is what it is. Eventually it will fall into some type of equilibrium and fans can either watch or not watch.

And I think at the end of the day most will keep watching because despite all the big talk I think they want to see elite players out there wearing their school’s jersey, even if it’s transitory, rather than taking it to D3 or intramural which is the only way to return the old order.

Again, this was the inevitable result of this becoming a zillion dollar business, but everyone who was popping their buttons as the contracts kept getting larger couldn’t see it.