re: Private equity/billionaires are now in active talks to buy college athletic programs.

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The teams are eventually going to spin off as private entities which will pay the schools licensing fees to use the branding and campus facilities.

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No, they won’t, because the government officials will not allow it. No alumni or high-powered person from that university will want that to happen.

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The teams are eventually going to spin off as private entities which will pay the schools licensing fees to use the branding and campus facilities. I hate it all but still tune in every Saturday.

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Well you will be tuning into NFL games because college football will lose TV rights for Saturday games if they detach from the schools.

Would be funny to see Blackrock buy Nebraska football then relocate the team to Florida to be in warmer weather and better recruiting ground for NIL.

May as well, this is C.F. now.

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Everyone involved from the players, to coaches, to admin are simply trying to get a bag.

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I don’t disagree, but the coaches and admin have been getting the bag for decades while the players got nothing. Which is clearly totally unfair. The difference I see is two of the three parties are supposed to be the adults.

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This kind of idiocy is why this has been handled so badly

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while the players got nothing

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the fricking irony.

this has been "handled so badly" because simps like you consistently parroted the 'players got nothing' nonsense.

- lower admissions standards enabling them to get into college only because they are good at sports
- full scholarships covering all possible tuition related expenses, even after they are done eligibility
- free academic tutoring with priority scheduling and accommodations
- free impeccable healthcare coverage that includes things like braces that have absolutely nothing to do with their sports
- all meals paid for
- all housing paid for
- free gear, equipment, and apparel
- free access to expert coaches and trainers
- free access to beyond 5 star facilities
- first class travel and hotel accommodations
- access to ncaa grants and funds for personal travel and tragedy expenses
- celebrity status and treatment on campus and in their community, even after they are finished eligibility
- national tv and media exposure
- towards the end, yearly COL stipends

all of those things have value. most of them have actual costs associated with them. all of them free to athletes, and for the most part no other students.

the primary value of college sports is tied to the brands of the universities that participate. the vast majority of athletes dont come anywhere close to generating revenue or value for their schools that come anywhere close to offsetting the costs of the lists above.

and morons like you continue to say they "got nothing"

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I don’t disagree, but the coaches and admin have been getting the bag for decades while the players got nothing. Which is clearly totally unfair. The difference I see is two of the three parties are supposed to be the adults.

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That’s true, and I don’t necessarily think paying players is a bad idea (although I believe you have to think through how to do that carefully). But, I think a lot of people underestimate the extent to which amateurism (or at least the appearance of it) added to the appeal of college football.

You can still pay coaches and admin and have an amateur sport. HS coaches get stipends at a minimum and nobody believes varsity kids need to get paid. I’m not convinced that CFB players needed to get cash comp and what we have today is the worst possible way to do it. No structure, so everyone from 17 year olds to 60 year old billionaires are trying to monetize it. So in that since, I 100% agree with you…the adults in the room failed everyone in that regard.

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HS coaches get stipends at a minimum and nobody believes varsity kids need to get paid.

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HS coaches don’t get paid $10 million dollars a year and high school athletic departments don’t have 50 employees making over a quarter million.

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what we have today is the worst possible way to do it. No structure, so everyone from 17 year olds to 60 year old billionaires are trying to monetize it.

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I agree. But you know who I’m not going to blame? 18-22 year old kids who were about 12 when the adults were fricking all of this up

The irony of it all is that if this happens all of what makes college football great will be destroyed and the ratings/popularity will suffer for it.

I'm not sure why you think people on message boards are responsible for a lawsuit brought by a former player.