College Game Is Dying/How do we save it [RIP NCAA Catchall Thread]

USCJacket said:
What you continue to ignore are the realities of the past vs the present. CFB was not bringing in anything close $$$ wise in the past like they have in let’s just say the last 30 years, and more so the last 20+ as TV $$ has exploded to conferences / schools.

Coaches like Bear Bryant, Tom Osbourne, etc weren’t making an adjusted salary to the time anywhere close to what is considered an “average” HC salary of $5 million to now maxing over $13 million a year. AD’s, conference commissioners, NCAA employees weren’t making millions per year. Hell, assistant coaches are making $2+ million now. You do understand the ACC paid John Swafford $2.88 million in 2023, right? Swafford has been retired since 2021.

You continue to romance the myth of “amateurism” when the players are what make the product weekly. No one has said SA’s should be $1 million per year salary employees through the school, but they do deserve a revenue share. That’s all the corrupt NCAA had to do starting in 2015 and this mess would have been avoided. Instead, the SA’s will eventually get both a revenue share along with be contract employees. That’s the only way everything will be stabilized at this point.

If you don’t like what’s going on, that’s 100% your right to feel that way. You also have the right not to watch CFB going forward. People boycotted the NFL in 2020 and have returned.

I don’t watch MLB or the NBA, for the simple reason that to me personally both are boring.

I’ll ask you one question. Why do you think the Supreme Court ruled 9-0 in favor of SA’s vs the NCAA?
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You mean the ruling involving academic benefits ?
 
GoldZ said:
You mean the ruling involving academic benefits ?
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Way to try and spin it. But keep up the good fight that the fake “amateurism” model you think was “fair” was even remotely that. Fair. Funny that in a country where neither the R or D members can agree on anything, they unanimously did as it relates to the corrupt billion dollar industry known as the NCAA.

Justice Brett Kavanaugh published a concurring opinion that takes a harder line, suggesting that the NCAA's rules that restrict any type of compensation -- including direct payment for athletic accomplishments -- might no longer hold up well in future antitrust challenges.

"The NCAA is not above the law," Kavanaugh wrote. "The NCAA couches its arguments for not paying student athletes in innocuous labels. But the labels cannot disguise the reality: The NCAA's business model would be flatly illegal in almost any other industry in America."

"Today's Supreme Court ruling highlights just how much the tide is turning against the NCAA and its unfair treatment of college athletes," said Sen. Chris Murphy, D-Connecticut, who has been one of the association's most outspoken critics on Capitol Hill. "The status quo on 'amateurism' is finally changing and the NCAA no longer has carte blanche to control athletes' livelihoods and monopolize the market. This is the kind of justice, and basic rights, college athletes deserve."

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High court rules against NCAA on compensation

In a ruling that could help push changes in college athletics, the Supreme Court on Monday unanimously sided with a group of former college athletes in a dispute with the NCAA over rules limiting certain compensation.
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USCJacket said:
Way to try and spin it. But keep up the good fight that the fake “amateurism” model you think was “fair” was even remotely that. Fair. Funny that in a country where neither the R or D members can agree on anything, they unanimously did as it relates to the corrupt billion dollar industry known as the NCAA.

Justice Brett Kavanaugh published a concurring opinion that takes a harder line, suggesting that the NCAA's rules that restrict any type of compensation -- including direct payment for athletic accomplishments -- might no longer hold up well in future antitrust challenges.

"The NCAA is not above the law," Kavanaugh wrote. "The NCAA couches its arguments for not paying student athletes in innocuous labels. But the labels cannot disguise the reality: The NCAA's business model would be flatly illegal in almost any other industry in America."

"Today's Supreme Court ruling highlights just how much the tide is turning against the NCAA and its unfair treatment of college athletes," said Sen. Chris Murphy, D-Connecticut, who has been one of the association's most outspoken critics on Capitol Hill. "The status quo on 'amateurism' is finally changing and the NCAA no longer has carte blanche to control athletes' livelihoods and monopolize the market. This is the kind of justice, and basic rights, college athletes deserve."

www.espn.com

High court rules against NCAA on compensation

In a ruling that could help push changes in college athletics, the Supreme Court on Monday unanimously sided with a group of former college athletes in a dispute with the NCAA over rules limiting certain compensation.
www.espn.com www.espn.com
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You'll be a long ways behind me in line for a chance to be critical of the NCAA on many fronts. My concern over what is happening to college football is so much bigger than the NCAA as to boggle the mind. If we can't/won't clean up the problems with the.... what you would call the old cfb, then shame on us, as in the Country. "College" football players have no more of a right to the NIL/TP crap than do new med school grads doing brain surgery prior to years of internship and certification processes. Should the hospitals pay said wannabe surgeons NIL money and accept transfers from another hospital because they couldn't work themselves into the OR at the previous hospital ?
You seem to dodge the cost of colleges providing a platform for the me too players. Where would the players play without colleges? My guess is, the new med school grads know full well how expensive it is to run a hospital. You could use the same logic on Law school grads and Engineering school grads.
NIL/TP as an answer to the pos NCAA, is akin to throwing out the baby with the bath water. You might as well cancel the Olympics because Russia cheats.
 
We got a battle going, you guys need some fuel. Which one of you is left Bull and which right Bull?
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