Paying Players Will End College Football. True or False?

You're not for paying people who produce millions of dollars in revenue?

And why would it be over?

I don't see why they can't at least get paid for their image and likeness.

I wish college football could be what it was during the 2000s forever. Oh well. Thank god for DVR.

I mean the NFL is being subsidized by college football, how many minor league NFL teams do you see? Not that college power programs aren't making huge revenue off the players. I think they deserve something above the cost of attendance stipends. Then it will be like men's/women's pro soccer with every sport/athlete demanding equal $. It's a slippery subject, but not like there aren't resources as long as the revenue keeps flowing. How many days a year do major college football players truly have off?

Well that’s just it isn’t it? The media screams injustice pay them. How? If the school pays you better make it a set pay rate for all, or you have a league with no salary cap. I think getting paid for their image should be in fairness allowed to an extent. But who pays the center or the punter?

You let these kids work their own deals on endorsements, autographs, etc., and you solve the problem with the market.

shite programs like ULL suffer for it, but the game does fine and the kids are happy.its all good.

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They should get paid directly from the university that benefits from their talents. They shouldn't be paid only according to using their name and likeness. Just fricking pay them.

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Most athletic departments lose money, so this means only a handful of universities will have teams OR you will seethe complete destruction of non revenue sport for men in college.

Then there is this pesky little rule called title IX that has already completely fricked with college athletics that now says you can’t give more benefits to one student athlete than the other

There is a middle ground that can be found. I can't think of it.

But realistically and logistically we cannot pay players fairly. Schools like LSU, Texas, Florida, Alabama, Ohio State, etc your big time blue chips make way more money and revenue than a middle tier school and an extreme amount compared to lower tier. If we have to meet the low hanging fruit as far as numbers go these players are not exactly going to be making a lot of money.

The bottom 80 schools in power 5 cant compete with the top 40 schools as far as paying players/revenue. and top 10 blows the other 30 out of the water even further.

Where will the balance come from? Forcing everyone to pay what the little schools can manage? That opens even more problems.

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But realistically and logistically we cannot pay players fairly. Schools like LSU, Texas, Florida, Alabama, Ohio State, etc your big time blue chips make way more money and revenue than a middle tier school and an extreme amount compared to lower tier.

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This is going on now anyway. It's just going on illegally. So, you either keep it illegal and have the big schools paying more than the little schools can, or you open the gates and give everybody the equal opportunity. The small schools still won't be able to complete financially, but it's not different than what is currently going on when you think about it.

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it wouldn't been college football, it would be semi pro football

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Except that it wouldn't be.