re: Why does society perceive playing football earns the right of payment?

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this I feel pretty certain of. The current recruiting industry is a hundred million dollar business. People know who kids are when they are 14. People would watch nolan smith and derek stingley and kayvon thibodeaux wherever they play. Especially if given legitimacy by the NFL

Call it the NFL development league. Allow it to draft high school players and college players. Put it on TV Saturdays. I think that would work well and pretty much completely end the NCAA as a major sport organization

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The recruiting industry is huge, but the money changing hands revolves around camps, training facilities, rating services etc. People are paying to get their kids exposure or figure out which kids are worth offering. People aren’t paying to actually watch them play.

I just don’t see 18 year olds and marginally good former college players being that big of a draw. If they were, more people would tune in to watch the Under Armor AA game. Or they’d just pay to get more HS games televised. Maybe it could be viable but it would be absolutely dwarfed by CFB. Bama fans aren’t going to stop watching Bama play and instead go watch Tua play on a team they have no affiliation with.