Maybe this will bring some sanity back to college football.

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If done properly, we can go back to watching amateur college football with college students that have some vested interest in a degree and their schools. Yet, they can still share in the some of the revenue they generate. There has to be a balance.

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Manchin and Tuberville introduce bipartisan bill to shake up college sports

Senators Joe Manchin and Tommy Tuberville have introduced bipartisan legislation to set national standards for name, likeness and image agreements in collegiate athletics.
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Gonna be next to impossible to reel this thing in now that the cat's out the bag IMO. I could see a tidal wave of grievances and civil suits from athletes if the NCAA/schools try to pivot away the current trajectory.
 
Good step in the right direction. I like the 3 years of academic progress before unfettered transferring. But there is little to address the flood of money slushing around and what kind of impacts that is going to have. It's a bandaid on a gaping wound but better than nothing I suppose.
 
JoltinJacket said:
Reagan tried to warn us 40 years ago. The nine most dangerous works in the English language are "I'm from the gov't and I'm here to help."
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Let the free market prevail and stop all this BS.

I’d allow contracts. If you’re a QB for example, you have the option sign a contract to play for a school for 1-4 years for whatever the market will bear. You might want to sign for 1 year at GT for $250k because that’s your best option hoping you win the starting position, play lights out and sign for 2 more years at Alabama for $3M/year. Maybe you bust and you end up with no home in year 2 because you suck or get injured and never see the field. Maybe $250k/yr is good for you and you sign for 4 years? It’s your choice. Maybe you sign for 2 years thinking you’ll be in a better negotiating spot at that point. Whatever, but it’s all above board and ends this legalized bribery/new version bag man BS that’s going on now.

Why are we all afraid of what made/makes America great? Freedom to do as you choose without some dictator deciding for you.
 
Liberty said:
Let the free market prevail and stop all this BS.

I’d allow contracts. If you’re a QB for example, you have the option sign a contract to play for a school for 1-4 years for whatever the market will bear. You might want to sign for 1 year at GT for $250k because that’s your best option hoping you win the starting position, play lights out and sign for 2 more years at Alabama for $3M/year. Maybe you bust and you end up with no home in year 2 because you suck or get injured and never see the field. Maybe $250k/yr is good for you and you sign for 4 years? It’s your choice. Maybe you sign for 2 years thinking you’ll be in a better negotiating spot at that point. Whatever, but it’s all above board and ends this legalized bribery/new version bag man BS that’s going on now.

Why are we all afraid of what made/makes America great? Freedom to do as you choose without some dictator deciding for you.
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I agree with you in spirit but not so sure we should go this route for college athletics. I suppose it all depends on what how you view the purpose of "higher education". There was a time when there was a clear separation between corporate private interest and publicly funded education. Those lines are pretty much gone and have been now for some time though there is still a semblance of separation.

The reason for the separation was that the interest of corporate or monetary incentivized entities quite often had nothing to do with the education or well being of students. They had "less pure" motives. They still do.

That said, schools give merit based academic scholarships valued at well over $100K all the time. Many of these scholarships are funded by corporate entities and have been for a long time.

So I guess there really isn't much here that is sacred anymore. Perhaps you're right. Let's just drop the pretense and fully expose what goes on behind the curtains in the world of academia. Pull it all out into the open. The funding, the academic research, the tenured professors, the government/corporate/academic complex, the seedy nature of all of it.

Not sure why I feel like college football should be any different. Amateur athletics isn't sacred. I don't think it ever was.

I've changed my mind. I agree with you.
 
Liberty said:
Let the free market prevail and stop all this BS.

I’d allow contracts. If you’re a QB for example, you have the option sign a contract to play for a school for 1-4 years for whatever the market will bear. You might want to sign for 1 year at GT for $250k because that’s your best option hoping you win the starting position, play lights out and sign for 2 more years at Alabama for $3M/year. Maybe you bust and you end up with no home in year 2 because you suck or get injured and never see the field. Maybe $250k/yr is good for you and you sign for 4 years? It’s your choice. Maybe you sign for 2 years thinking you’ll be in a better negotiating spot at that point. Whatever, but it’s all above board and ends this legalized bribery/new version bag man BS that’s going on now.

Why are we all afraid of what made/makes America great? Freedom to do as you choose without some dictator deciding for you.
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This is the point that I totally check out of college sports.
 
Stingtalk: NIL is out of control! College football is getting destroyed! There should be oversight!
Government: Well we can help NCAA do that.
Stingtalk: öööö you! I’d rather college football get destroyed! FREE MARKET!
 
Akinji07 said:
Stingtalk: NIL is out of control! College football is getting destroyed! There should be oversight!
Government: Well we can help NCAA do that.
Stingtalk: öööö you! I’d rather college football get destroyed! FREE MARKET!
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Sometimes you have to walk a path to get to the right answer. And that path takes you by several strip clubs along the way, so I, for one, am happy to walk it. Or put another way, this is like your hot girlfriend says hey, let's have a 3some with my friend. Initially you say hell yes, but then you find out her friend goes to uga, weight 429 pounds, has a face sitting / smother fetish and she really likes you.
 
LagrangeJacket said:
When you’re counting on Congress to solve your problems… well, you’re ööööed.
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Not at all. Just write the law exactly the way you want it pased. Then put it on a usb stick together with access info to a fully-funded off-shore account and while exchanging insincere platitudes over $50 drinks, slide the stick across the table and remind him that it would be a real shame if word got out about… you know…
 
juraitwaluzka said:
Sometimes you have to walk a path to get to the right answer. And that path takes you by several strip clubs along the way, so I, for one, am happy to walk it. Or put another way, this is like your hot girlfriend says hey, let's have a 3some with my friend. Initially you say hell yes, but then you find out her friend goes to uga, weight 429 pounds, has a face sitting / smother fetish and she really likes you.
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Not sure I'm understanding you properly. So after the initial "hell yes" .. you hear those additional stipulations and feel like you actually have no choice but to absolutely beg for it?
 
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