re: President Trump planning to create commission on college sports

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The whole transfer whenever, NIL not being pay for play has been a disaster

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A disaster for who? Who’s college sports supposed to benefit? I believe that’s the players. Seems they’re better off than they have ever been.

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if it meant cfb going back to how it was.

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So....unconstitutional by a 9-0 ruling?

College sports isn't going back, and the NCAA was stupid for not getting ahead of this years ago when it's product started looking way more like "business" than "amateur".

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people tolerate government over reaching when it’s their side doing it.

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Government over reaching is what got us here to begin with.

Should’ve known the first reply was going to be a stupid one

It’s not a constitutional issue. Antitrust laws were never meant to apply to college sports. Just enact an exemption in Congress and the problem goes away.

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It’s not a constitutional issue. Antitrust laws were never meant to apply to college sports. Just enact an exemption in Congress and the problem goes away.

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This is true only if college football acted like an amateur endeavor and not a business for the past few decades - which is my point. If college sports spent more effort acting amateur none of this happens.

Instead the NCAA extracted every dollar it could from every hole it could find, which made it appear to everybody the college football is just a capital enterprise like anything else trying to maximize revenue no holds barred.

Once it’s a capital enterprise than the people providing the labor are de facto employees.

If there was even a handful of decisions the NCAA made in the past 40 years that left money on the table for the sake of student athlete non-football achievement, they could cite that as a reason to say it’s still amateur, but they didn’t.

Once you say college football is a business, now the market share is split between the NCAA and the NFL and both enterprises are large enough to garner anti-trust concerns, regardless of how the laws were written to begin with.

Standard Oil didn’t have 100% market share when they got their dick slapped in the early 1900’s

Let the stupid posters out themselves. Anyone who is anti-Trump is a complete moron and hates America.

Cam Newton did not get 180K


It was more like 225K plus a favorable loan

I was going to get to that, but I like the hypocrisy from Saban to fix the very thing that he actively created and benefitted from until......

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Can you define “acting amateur”?

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The Big Ten for the past 20 years is the counter-example.

1) Traditionally the Big Ten did not play games Thanksgiving weekend so athletes can spend time with their families. When the Big Ten went and expanded to have a Conference Championship game ($$$$), the also backfilled games to Thanksgiving Weekend (also $$$$)

2) The Big Ten then expanded so much that Rutgers can play in conference away games at Oregon. This is one thing for football where the games are on Saturday, but this means the back end of the women's basketball bench are doing the same thing on a Tuesday mid-semester.

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At any point in time, they could have said

"we're going to keep our tradition of not having games Thanksgiving weekend so that student athletes can spend that time with their families"

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"We need to keep our conference as a regional conference; we can't have volleyball players fighting jet lag taking their physics exam after needing to fly cross country for a Wednesday conference game 3 time zones away"

Instead, every single word uttered by officials was identical to those who are motivated entirely by business and revenue generation.