Forbes ?? Candidate for SC
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I don’t know man. I’m not saying he is going to SC but I do think he is entertaining the idea.
Y’all are going back and forth and making very good points on how this Wild West model isn’t sustainable in general for college athletics.
When all this started out it was like, what’s the big deal, players should get paid, and now, it’s like, holy bleep, how the crap are we going to fund this without a few resident billionaires?
It’s an insane asylum in its current makeup
When I first read this I was like, Dadgum, dude is almost 100 and on message boards
Right and the solution in theory is pretty simple. Just put in a cap.
It’s very simple but the NCAA has no teeth or manners of enforcement. The only way to do that is to do what none of the suits want and why this is the way it is which is make them employees with the same collective bargaining structure you see in pro sports.
Meanwhile, in trying to play this untenable game for really two major revenue sports, you eliminate opportunity across the board for kids that excel in track and field and things like that bc universities can’t keep up. Many are cutting sports or have some big time fat cats but in general across the college landscape, many more people are getting screwed than benefiting.
They all basically jumped in the deep end without knowing how to swim
Correct, that's the stated goal for the athletic department. That's a significant amount of new money flowing to the baseball program. We did a story a year or two ago in which Forbes noted that NIL deals were primarily used to cover tuition costs so players wouldn't graduate with student debt.