...then somebody's going to have to do something. https://www.facebook.com/reel/972008808874558
If This Man is Nervous...
- Thread starter KingWard
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I and others have said it since day one. These college athletes demanding to be paid will destroy the thing they need the most. It's happening right before our eyes.
I've been against NIL from the beginning. There was nothing good that could come from it, and here we are.
It isn't going to get fixed. It is going to have to implode or collapse or fail in whatever way it will fail before anything will change. The players, the coaches, the ADs and, especially, the lawyers are grabbing too much money to allow anything to change. The fans have clearly said they don't like what is happening but they are being completely ignored.
I read an interesting editorial by an Ohio State grad/fan. He said the games weren't worth going to anymore because of the cost to attend. The cheapest ticket to the worst cupcake game was $100. He said the additional cost for parking, travel, food, etc. made attending a game a no value proposition. A family of four going to the cheapest game of the season would spend over $500.
When Ohio State fans, some of the most rabid in the country, say going to the game isn't worth it anymore, change isn't far behind.
The proverbial toothpaste is out of the tube.
Same here, but the cool kids told us we just needed to step aside.
Yeah what a bunch of idiots telling us the kids should get paid like this. Most of them probably received some sort of unearned income as well while the rest of us work our butts off just to keep the kids happy.
I agree.
Free room and board.
Free education.
Free nutritionist.
Free gym.
Free medical staff and facility-use.
Free coaching.
Free TV exposure and NFL platform. . . I feel for them, these poor, poor kids who have to “work” so hard for all that meager preferential treatment. They deserve so much more. /s
But I agree also with the comment that once you start, you can’t pull back. We’ve seen it happen in everyday life beginning in the ‘60’s with LBJ’s doomed Great Society and companion Economic Opportunity Act: A growing portion of society living off the government and taxpayers instead of contributing.
Yeah but the fans continue to spend money at it. Until that stops nothing will change.
You are absolutely correct, but the numbers are indicating that the amount of money the fans are going to be required to spend to maintain the status quo may be reaching the tipping point where the fans stop spending as much. There will not be a rush for the exits across all of college football. The change will come incrementally. First, the teams that have basically no chance of making the CFP i.e. Wake Forest, West Virginia, Rutgers, Colorado State, etc. will see mostly empty stadiums as their fans refuse to pay the big money to attend when they can watch at home. Then, that pattern will spread to the next tier of teams, the teams that now delude themselves into thinking they are a contender (South Carolina falls into this group). These programs will demand more and more money from fans to attend and try to fund the NIL and facilities they think they need to make the CFP and the fans will realize they are paying a substantial amount of money to see a team that isn't going to make the playoff and they will decide to save the money and watch from home. The top 10-20 teams will still have full stadiums for their "big games" but will find themselves surrounded by and playing a schedule mostly made up of teams that can't compete with them. The games will not be interesting and the top team's fans will stop going to all the games and huge swaths of empty seats will be the norm.
I don't see this happening in the next two years, but I can see it within 5 years. The first tool TV and the CFP will use to avoid this will be playoff expansion. They will think that by letting 26 (or more) teams into the playoff, they will insure maintained interest by more fan bases. This might work for a year or two, but the "everybody gets a trophy" playoff idea will be pretty transparent and the fans will lose interest in that.