Guess Revenue Sharing is coming soon! Things are going to change drastically!

I won’t be renewing my football tickets

Been a long time coming. Congratulations to the players.

So is the all American QB getting paid the same as a bench warmer on the soccer team?

I was having a discussion last year with a former college and NFL player. At one point he asked me if I knew the difference between college football and the NFL…the answer….the NFL has a salary cap !!!!!

Wonder if this changes the amount of money coming in thru NIL? Will donors feel like the school should pay before they pony up? I imagine it doesn't affect the biggest donors, but it may give pause to some.

The only thing I want to know is if this will entail a move in the direction of fixing the transfer portal issue. If NCAA member schools are paying players directly, will they be able to require them to sign contracts that they agree to transfer rules and limitations as a condition of their "employment"?

This is really all I care about anymore. If the schools can get leverage back by paying the players directly as employees, surely they can require them to adhere to certain conditions of employment. Then the athletes will unionize, collective bargain, and college sports will end up pretty much just like the NFL, NBA, etc. That's the direction its going in, I say the sooner we can get there and get all this Wild West insanity over with, the better.

The elites' plan to destroy the American tradition of big-time college athletics is almost complete.

Yayy! Ticket prices just tripled!!

So what effect does this have on current NIL policy, if any?

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The settlement would also resolve claims of missed back-pay for current and former college athletes dating back to 2016

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They need to push that back to the late 80s/early 90s. Hook a brotha up.

The glorious spectacle of college football was already under seige by the NIL and portal, but this is its final death knell. The game will slowly become a mercenary, soulless minor league for the NFL, with a cast of self-serving players that shuffles amongst different programs annually based on portal trends and available school revenue. Richer programs will become perennial juggernauts, poorer programs will fade into obscurity. The results on the field will be ever more predictable and repetitive. Tradition and pageantry will matter less, if at all. The minor sports will come calling with their indignant hands out, waving the Title IX banner, and interminable squabbling about money will ensue. Over the coming decades, the religious devotion of the fanbases will wane as their emotional ties to the players and program are eroded by the new transactional nature of the game, the roster turnover, the transparent financial decisions of recruits, and the predictability of outcomes. Those fans are what drive revenues in the first instance. They buy tickets, they amass merchandise, they watch games, and they are the reason the TV networks shell out hundreds of millions in contracts. Once the fans lose devotion, the revenues will go too. The game is being dismantled by a bunch of dilletante politicos, lawyers, and coastal meddlers with an ideological agenda who have never even been to a real college football game, much less experienced the passion and agony of supporting a program for decades.