re: College Football is the dumbest pro sport in America

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The Universities have to come together with a collective bargaining agreement. Force the players to conform and have some solid roster rules.

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They have, about 100 years ago. It’s called the NCAA.

Yall have to remember, the NCAA is not a government institution. It’s a “collective” agreement among all participating schools that has certain rules and punishments. It was put in place for a reason. Any decision or action by the NCAA should be seen as an action done collectively by all the participating schools.

Example: the NCAA has always counted JUCO playing time as counting towards the 5 years to play 4. Pavia successfully sued to have his JUCO years erased because JUCO does NOT participate with the NCAA. You read that right. The NCAA was using time played at colleges that don’t participate to count towards a rule meant only for participating schools. You can’t make this crap up.

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The universities have total control over this mess. They just need to admit that the players are employees. That would fix everything.

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Indeed, the National Labor Relations Board filed a complaint in Federal Court against the NCAA (read all participating schools) for the athletes to be declared employees. By the way, that would be a nightmare for the schools. Imagine having to negotiate with EVERY single sports team individually every year for revenue sharing.

In regards to my post above, ultimately Pavia used the Sherman Act to get his, and his only, pass to have his JUCO not counted. The Feds may end up declaring this whole thing (revenue sharing, NIL, all of it), to be a Labor issue. Heaven help us all if that happens…..

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It’s the Wild West.

NFL teams don’t have this much traffic every year.

There is no allegiance or team pride anymore. Just a bunch of mercenaries.

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yep, and it has destroyed one of unique aspects of college football, as opposed to the NFL (which I don't watch). Mercenaries who come and go in large numbers every year. Once we figure out who's on our roster, they're gone. Zero connection to the university.

This kills a very large part of my emotional attachment to the team.

It's sad to see a great sport become completely transformed (and not for the better) in such a short time, with no one in charge.

The greed is killing college sports. You'll start seeing ads on jerseys. It will look like NASCAR pretty soon, with everything sponsored. Amateurism in athletics is dead.