I personally believe that ESPN, the Supreme Court and the conferences will end up killing college football, but that’s just me. I just don’t think that if it keeps going the way it does with the money and greed that it’s sustainable.
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The 2 biggest problems are 1. Colleges/ players consistently changing conferences/teams for monetary gain and 2. Using NIL instead of the money the teams bring in. We could have avoided all of this by not having 3 college sports fund the other 30+, remove the collegiate requirements to enter the NFL so we don’t have to pretend they actually earn their degrees. Every football player could have earned a free college ride plus some without NIL if the teams actually held onto their earnings instead of communism colleges using them to pay for everyone else. This death spiral is entirely due to colleges communist tendencies and the government enabling and enforcing it.
Yeah, you basically got it right. In order to comply with Title IX, schools must give an equal amount of athletic scholarships to both men and women. In Division I, there are 85 football scholarships and 12 men’s basketball scholarships, so you end up having 12 women’s basketball scholarships and then 85 women’s scholarships going to the “non-revenue” sports (to the people unfamiliar, think about stuff like rowing, track, softball, etc), and that’s pretending that men only play football and basketball, the real number is way higher than that.
The NFL’s never going to do a G League unless college football complete collapses, because it’ll cost them too much money, colleges make too much money off of it.
I do agree with the fact that college coaches make way too much, it’s to the point where Saban and Smart make more than NFL coaches.
College football might end up fucking Title IX though, that’s probably the only good thing that’ll come out of this greed.
Title 9 was one of the biggest fuck yous for men’s sports. It set the grounds for the wnba to be financed by the NBA, the lpga to be financed by the pga, for women’s soccer to be paid the same while being in a fraction of revenue. It was straight socialism under the guise of “equality”.