re: Paying Players Will End College Football. True or False?

Way to broad for them to get paid.


Beach volleyball, water polo, football, golf, swimming, etc etc etc. The pay plan would be too extreme.

Look, just make it so there is no age restriction to go to nfl. If you want to go get paid and die, then by all means go try it, if not you need to go to college or some other crap league in the meantime for 3 years. No exceptions, paying players in college will be the worst decision ever made by the ncaa if they do it.

Paying players is certainly not the panacea that many folks think. Would it eliminate under the table payments? Not likely. Boosters will just add to the pot of money, and the same problems that we have now with cheating will continue.

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You're not for paying people who produce millions of dollars in revenue? And why would it be over?

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#1 a lot of great players get paid under the table. Don’t be naive. They are well taken care of.

#2 those same players and more get a full ride to a 4-year university. If going pro doesn’t work out, you have a degree to fall back on with no student loan debt.

#3 can you imagine if a player is paid by one school and enters the transfer portal because another school offers more? College football would become free agency with no contracts.

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

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They get paid $30K a year (or more). It's called tuition, books, lodging, registration, lab fees, etc, etc, etc.

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So why is it illegal for a football player to be hired to advertise something, or sign something, or teach a football camp?

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It isn’t illegal. If they want to market themselves and be paid for whatever sport they’re involved with they’re free to do so, they just aren’t eligible to participate in the NCAA.

Most people fail to realize their real argument is against the NFL. Just because a player has to wait three years per the NFL’s rules, and chooses to spend those years playing college football, it doesn’t mean the NCAA should have to open a can of worms that they can’t possibly deal with on any sort of equitable terms or blow up their model entirely.

Once it starts you can't go back. Free Agency will logically follow because if it is legal under NCAA Rules to pay a player what is to prevent a player from leaving?

If another team offers more after a player is successful at say LSU and Bama or Auburn offers more money how do you tell him he can't take it? The transfer portal is already bad enough but yes paying players is going to ruin the sport.

End is not the word. It will change the landscape of college football and have implications on recruiting but college football will always be great and never cease to exist

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And why would it be over?

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That's really a dumb question. Most schools lose money on their football program. How will they pay? Socialize NCAA football? If that ever passes many schools will drop football.

According to one survey only 8 schools in the NCAA cover athletic dept expenses.

Louisiana State University (LSU)
Pennsylvania State University (Penn State)
University of Georgia
University of Iowa
University of Michigan
University of Nebraska
University of Oklahoma
University of Texas
Football revenue supports the entire athletic dept budgets at all schools. If they start paying football players they have to pay all sport players regardless of revenue. At LSU the "profit" is high because of the TAF and private money paying for upgrade to facilities. Its not all generated by the sport but aided greatly by it's sport foundations. Players are compensated now and that's how it should stay. If the players start refusing to play other will gladly accept that scholly.