Not really. Who is going to go for the band if the game is a worse version of the NFL? Very few. There’s no reason it needs to be pro sports. You can set up a post-grad trust with rev share so players are compensated but not during school and to give them an incentive to graduate.
Nah. There’s a few on this board who thinks it’s great! In fairness, they’re the idiots but they really believe it. “Player empowerment” people are the worst.
LOL. No one was “suffering” under the old system. Such ********. The easy fix is just put rev share in a trust that’s unlocked with successful graduation. Literally solves 99% of the issues.
100% correct. Interest from my formerly hardcore circle of college sports fan friends has fallen off. All that’s keeping it afloat now is gambling and given some of the (massively predictable) issues with gambling addiction I’d be shocked if gambling isn’t reigned in legislatively soon at both...
Never going to allow minimum qualifiers nor should we. It would be a betrayal of all we’ve stood for 100+ years. Do you just have no standards/no morals and want to win at any cost?
If Congress actually reigns in this nonsense with a real rev share plan - like putting it in a trust which can...
Indiana winning it means a hell of a lot less in this era when you’re paying mercenaries that don’t give a **** about your university, education or culture. They just want the bag.
The game is gone. Makes me sad every time I think about it. The super league will be the formalization of the end when we’re not included. NIL craziness, portal free agency, conference realignment chaos, 24 team CFP and 76 team MM… all death blows.