[P-Marlowe]

Bring it on. These universities deserve to have unionized players.

Of course that will make all of the union players professional athletes and according to the NCAA rules they would be ineligible for participation in NCAA sports.

[dfwgator]

College football is inevitably going to ditch the NCAA and become their own enterprise.....There probably is going to a “Premier League” of college football consisting solely of the biggest programs that will negotiate a super-mega television contract.

[Dilbert San Diego]

You make a good point. These college athletes are amateurs. If these changes make them professionals, then by definition, they can’t play anymore.

In that case, bye bye college sports. College sports as we know them won’t exist anymore.

[Robert357]

College football is big business, it is not about amateur athletes. College football is the farm league for the NFL, as opposed to what Major League Baseball does with paying athletes in minor teams after high school.

Doing away with the illusion that this is an amateur sport is long overdue.

[discostu]

Either the NCAA is going to change their rules or the colleges will leave the NCAA. The later is the most likely, all the big power schools are tired of the NCAA and their raft of impossible to follow rules that get enforced 5 years later. There’s a reason the super conferences are forming, to put enough colleges together under few enough umbrellas to form their own organizing body.

[deadrock]

Good one.