re: NCAA to pay $3 billion to athletes in historic settlement.

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Once again of course they would. I haven't indicated that all college programs were equal or would generate the same amount of interest.

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OK.

Let’s say the worst D1 football program generates $5 million in annual revenue. Their players are the bottom of the barrel, easily replaceable, and effectively add no value.

Now let’s say the best D1 football program generates $100 million in annual revenue. That program’s success is worth $95 million a year (the difference between their revenue and the worst team’s revenue). Their players are the cream of the crop, and are a major factor in that success. So you could argue that, at most, those top-tier players are worth $95 million/year. This is the case whether the top-tier players are 4-5 stars or 2-3 stars.

Of course, reality is more complicated. Those bottom-of-the-barrel players at the worst program aren’t actually worthless because you still need players to field a team, and there are levels of competition beneath D1 they could play in as well.

Meanwhile those top-tier players at the best program aren’t actually worth $95 million. There are others who contribute to that success (coaches being an obvious example). Furthermore, the major programs probably wouldn’t fall all the way to G5 bottom feeder status in terms of revenue if they sucked, considering many of the top programs are very large institutions with huge alumni bases.

So the truth is somewhere in the middle. But a top-tier football player’s value isn’t $0. It’s not $25k or whatever a full-ride is worth, either. It’s more than that. How much more is a matter of negotiation.

As far as I’m aware, programs don’t have to pay athletes anything under the settlement. So if the players truly don’t add value, I would expect the market to reflect that.

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That’s done. I don’t think I will ever view a team as part of the school again.

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I honestly think that’s a part of the full agenda ( no tin foil hat here), the money brokers are all tied into the global picture. It seems like everything is being geared to no unity, no commitment to a school/country, self-centered, no community, etc.

It desensitizes, and one day the bigger things don’t matter as much. That’s our culture ina nutshell.

Who’s going to pay for this?

Why would the NFL ever abandon the current system? They spend $0 and get developed stars to plug into their worst franchises to give them a temporary boost (or in rare cases a massive boost).

The NFL doesn't care about college football fans or their complaints. Until the current system massively effects the quality of play to the point it hurts their bottom line, they won't do anything to change it. Heck hurting the quality of play may not even be a deal breaker, after all the NFL has no problems with the referees trying to be the biggest stars each game.

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fricking worst thing to happen to college football. Its not even fun to watch watch anymore with players switching schools every year .. it might as well be a called junior nfl league and do away with college entirely

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This

I forget what team I was watching but he was there 2 years, left for a year, and then transferred back

It has nothing to do with the program or school

It's fricking weird and it SUCKS

I totally agree and there's no way this would ever happen. I think college football is just doomed in its current form.

Nah, NIL will run it's course and boosters will stop spending millions on kids that play like crap.

You think the FSU boosters will be writing blank checks next season?

Hell if Ole Miss misses the playoffs it might be a while before they go all in again.

Even Texas A&M learned the hard way what their massively expensive #1 recruiting class got them.

Give it 5/7 years and you will see NIL spending flatten out.

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fricking worst thing to happen to college football. Its not even fun to watch watch anymore with players switching schools every year .. it might as well be a called junior nfl league and do away with college entirely

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Directly paid athletes will have to sign contracts. They will need lawyers also. A school can't agree to pay 250K a year and the dude redshirts after four games. Contracts will be signed. Reluctantly.

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Who’s going to pay for this?

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I think this is a real concern. You know, you've likely heard the talk about schools having to kill non-revenue sports like women's volleyball or softball or perhaps track and field, tennis.

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Do you believe they want to give it up? Do you believe the coaches want to give up those huge contracts? Do you think the athletic departments want to cut the number of employees? And what about the non revenue sports? Do they want to give up the million dollar contracts? Their big payrolls?

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They’ll eventually have to give all of that up if they end up destroying the consumers’ interest in the sport.