re: Supreme Court Ruling…Possibly the best day of my life.

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A good ruling for the players, but not a good ruling for college football, IMO.

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Correct. The ultimate irony is that in their greedy rush to get more money, one generation of players will destroy the ultimate source of that same money: fan interest in college football. Very few will invest their identities and passions and time and energies in college football when the sport becomes an overt bidding war between a limited number of rich institutions catering to mercenary primadonnas. No one wants to watch a de facto, generic minor league system stripped of pageantry and tradition and the appearance (even if it is illusory) of player loyalty. And when the fan interest wanes, so will the revenues, and the TV contracts, and million dollar coaching contracts, and all the rich glamor. Those who celebrate these rulings are largely misguided social justice devotees who don't grasp the larger picture. It was never the players who generated the revenues. It was always the fans and their emotional attachment to the game and its unique rituals.