re: Since recruiting is dead, this forum needs to change its title to Newly Purchased Players!

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The fact is, if a hypothetical Akron Zips billionaire alum all-of-a-sudden wanted to win a football championship for a school that has been completely irrelevant for their 130 year history, he could go out and throw millions at a roster (and staff) and be immediately competitive in the playoff picture, which wouldn't have been possible before because the individual traits of a program and school that make it unique used to matter the most, not just money. CFB is losing its identity and becoming more and more like the sanitized NFL.

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if you're in the wrong conference you'll never get the players you need to compete... that billionaire would probably be a Buckeyes fan already because they actually can compete

20% of the players are out for the highest bid. About 70% want an above average bid but also want a good fit and good culture. 10% just want to play for LSU and get paid some. With that 80% LSU should be in the playoffs almost every year and win Natty every 5-6 years.

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The NCAA did what they could to delay the inevitable for as long as possible, but ultimately it has been shown that they no longer have any power after all of the court rulings. This was always going to be the result with capitalism as the laws are written and with CFB skyrocketing in popularity (and revenue) from inception until today. I'm not sure if there's anyone specifically to blame other than previous federal gov regimes, because there's no way for our founding fathers could've taken into account that a sport that didn't exist yet probably shouldn't be subject to the articles and amendments to the Constitution. If anyone, it's the federal government and the supreme court for not recognizing that America's most popular sport is in deep turmoil while also endangering all other sports at collegiate institutions, and new laws or exceptions need to be written for a very unique sport and situation.

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To suggest that college football and college football players "shouldn't be subject to the articles and amendments to the Constitution" is pretty fricking un-American.

And to laud the NCAA for doing "what they could to delay the inevitable for as long as possible" is laughable. The NCAA did it's best to keep the money in the hands of the schools. It was LONG past time for players to be compensated.

In NCAA v. Alston, the Supreme Court finally announced what everyone had known for decades. The NCAA used "amateurism" to reduce its labor costs. And are you honestly suggesting that the Supreme Court should ignore the law of the land when it comes to college football players?

With the House v. NCAA settlement being granted final approval Friday, things can and will change. The players can form a union, and the rules that college football needs to be a more successful product can be written into a collective bargaining agreement.

It seems to me that the two biggest problems with college football currently are unlimited free agency (unlimited transfers) and asymmetric "NIL" bidding (competitive imbalance). Both of those issues can be resolved through a collective bargaining agreement.