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Time to cancel college sports.
They all want the $ then let them go to the NFL and NBA G League along with Baseball Farm Leagues. Let them travel on buses overnight and work for a rich person that treats the like a commodity.
I can support the BR Tigers just like I did for LSU.

The SEC is about to start a $3 BILLION media contract. LSU football generated $54 million in revenue. LSU gets paid quite handsomely for licensing their trademarks to people to slap it on hats, t-shirts, forks, knives, spoons, dildos, etc, etc. Most people aren't buying those to show support for the Sociology program.

The coaches are getting paid 6, 7, 8 figure salaries players. Yet, you're saying the players don't deserve any share of that massive revenue even though they are the ones most responsible for generating it?

And yes, the players are not completely "playing for free". All of their general living expenses are covered (housing, food, health insurance, etc) in addition to tuition. But what does that come out to annually? $75k to $100k per year (best?) Is that market value for a player like Jayden Daniels who plays a big role in generating well over $100M per year? I doubt it. In a free market Daniels is earning a salary of at least $2M, $3M, $4M annually for his efforts in a business that has revenues exceeding $100M

As for the scholarships I think most would agree the players by and large don't really want the hassle of attending school. If they could play without doing so they would. But being a student at the school is a prerequisite for playing football. So if you are going to require the players to attend school shouldn't you cover the costs of doing so?

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They all want the $ then let them go to the NFL and NBA G League along with Baseball Farm Leagues. Let them travel on buses overnight and work for a rich person that treats the like a commodity.

They probably would. But you know who DOES NOT want to end college football? LSU, Alabama, Ohio St, Georgia, etc, etc because they don't want to give up the massive amount of money it generates. The NCAA/Colleges loved the pre-NIL set up because not only could they continue to generate greater and greater revenue, but they didn't have to pay the "labor" market value for it. Furthermore, they could generate additional revenue using a players NIL with the player being given virtually nothing lest he risk his eligibility.

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I can support the BR Tigers just like I did for LSU.

But you wouldn't. That's because you don't cheer for the players. You cheer for the "uniform". Even before this current transfer era the players changed significantly from year to year via graduation, etc. Yet, your fandom level remained the same. That's because your fandom doesn't leave with the players. If LSU lost football and basketball and got a minor league team in the process it would do about as well as every other minor league team...which is not very. Most of the best baseball prospects in the world don't go to college and go straight to the minor leagues. Yet, those teams in and of themselves don't have a viewership market to generate $100+ million in revenue. Fans have decades of goodwill and loyalty invested into the LSU brand. You can't generated that level of loyalty/goodwill by simply starting a BR minor league football team (just look at how few people attend USFL games)

The way to "fix it" would be for essentially the major conf. football and men's basketball program and the conferences they are in disassociating themselves from the NCAA and the players unions along with the conferences/school entering into a CBA agreeing to terms to split the revenue generated.

Unfortunately, as long as those teams are affiliated with universities they are subject to federal law applying to all students at those universities so a school probably couldn't simply pay the basketball and football players big, market value "salaries" and pay the softball players next to nothing. Given the schools wouldn't want to end the revenue train generated by football and basketball, they would likely choose to cut all of the minor sports (including baseball)