We will never compete with this

BigDanT said:
Can’t do it. As a redditor pointed out to me, the kids aren’t in a union.
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Yup. Dumbasses on this board, and especially in the NCAA could have noted the obvious, that with NCAA coaches getting paid more than their professional counterparts, and contracts running into billions of dollars, it was only a matter of time before players would also get paid, and could have looked at how the highly successful NFL manages to still create a great product, and helped players to setup a union so they could negotiate salary caps and equitable pays, etc which would have meant competitive balance and no spiraling wage increases.

But the short sightedness of the NCAA (and CFB followers) is legion, so of course they didn’t, and instead of being proactive waited for the conservative Supreme Court to unanimously impose the worst possible solution on college football.
 
A non-SEC school like Oregon buying championships might spur some change. Things will probably have to get bad before they get fixed.
 
justafan said:
A non-SEC school like Oregon buying championships might spur some change. Things will probably have to get bad before they get fixed.
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Seriously, you watch how quick it changes if non SEC or BIG power teams start buying the best teams and winning Natty’s
 
justafan said:
A non-SEC school like Oregon buying championships might spur some change. Things will probably have to get bad before they get fixed.
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Exactly. It has to become a complete circus before people realize how bad it is.
 
THWG247 said:
Seriously, you watch how quick it changes if non SEC or BIG power teams start buying the best teams and winning Natty’s
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The SEC or BIG will just buy those schools into the conference. And by "buy" I mean allow them to pay a couple hundred million for the privilege of joining.
 
Cracker Barrel stock started to crater at roughly the same time they ruined their french fries, introduced kale, and got rid of something my wife liked but was not worth my time to memorize.
 
A legal salary cap is theoretically easy . . . but not practical. There is no antitrust violation for a set of schools to get together and form a new conference or league or whatever you want to call it and have a rule that says all players in that league must be complete amateurs (i.e., not even any scholarships) and the operations of the league are revenue neutral such that the schools' athletic departments are not businesses and the athletes are not employees but just . . . student . . . atheletes. You know, back how it was in the beginning But of course that's not going to happen.

The easiest way to make this happen is get Congress to make a set of rules for college athletics which impose a salary cap, or otherwise limit pay-for-play, or to just grant the NCAA an antitrust exemption (although I do not believe that the NCAA would impose a salary cap now even if they could). But to do that, you would have to pay off the right members of Congress. And if you had the money to do that, you wouldn't want a cap.

It won't take long before there will be a lot more have-nots like Tech than haves like Oregon and ugag, leading to a decline in competitiveness and as that happens I think overall attendance and TV viewer$hip will $uffer. That is the only way this ever really gets addressed. In the meantime, there will be much pain and suffering.
 
Techbert said:
Cracker Barrel stock started to crater at roughly the same time they ruined their french fries, introduced kale, and got rid of something my wife liked but was not worth my time to memorize.
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Go healthy; go broke!
 
Akinji07 said:
I always get a little scared eating at cracker barrel because I always think someone’s gonna figure out I wasn’t born here and they’re gonna start harassing me with “where you from boy? we don’t take kindly to folks like you ‘round ‘ere.” and then I’m gonna get shot and die over a plate of blueberry pancakes. In 20 years I have yet to eat there once without sitting on the edge of my seat.
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Pretty much the same way I feel whenever I eat at the local Korean restuarant. 'Cept they'll all be pointing at the roundeye and it will be over a bowl of bibimbap.
 
Techbert said:
Cracker Barrel stock started to crater at roughly the same time they ruined their french fries, introduced kale, and got rid of something my wife liked but was not worth my time to memorize.
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And yet, everyone accepted Chick Fil A removing coleslaw and replacing it with kale.
 
Tampa Jacket said:
It’s not college football anymore. Very sad.
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Yeah I like the idea of the kids profiting off of their own likeness but we all knew this would open Pandora's box but it even went beyond anything I could have imagined. My original thoughts were if a kid wants to make a profitable social media page/blog/video, then by all means do it and make the money you rightfully should make while you are semi-famous. However, it's been an opportunity for people with no lives to pay them directly without a bagman in the middle. Not anything anyone wanted other than the TAMUs of the world.
 
Akinji07 said:
That’s who I am worried about. Yankees are worse.
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Wait just a minute here! You act like the interweb badass on ST and you're afraid to go in a freaking Cracker Barrel? :cooleek: Dude, Bro, don't ever, EVER!, use the word cuck again. (And yes, to a CB-fearing faux badass, you are my dude, I am your bro.)
 
clapper said:
Wait just a minute here! You act like the interweb badass on ST and you're afraid to go in a freaking Cracker Barrel? :cooleek: Dude, Bro, don't ever, EVER!, use the word cuck again. (And yes, to a CB-fearing faux badass, you are my dude, I am your bro.)
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sounds like something a butthurt cuck would say.
 
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