“Unlike other sports, football players have no professional option. There is no minor-league like other sports, and for that I blame the NFL who continue to have, for the most part, a taxpayer funded minor-league.”
I repeat:
College sports are NON professional, mind you. They should stay that way.
Do you advocate for professional field hockey or lacrosse? Professional rugby, luge or bobsledding? Professional weightlifting, shot-putting or javelin?
Of course you do not. There are millions of college athletes in sports and there is no professional league to graduate to...just because college football is played it does NOT mean that college football players deserve compensation.
You have earned yourself a place on my ‘just bitchin’ list’ as well.
Congratulations! You are a WINNER, er WHINER...
There are professionals in all the sports you mentioned. Yes, I do advocate for people getting paid for their effort. I see no nobility in amateurism which is a sham concocted years ago by the elites to keep the “deplorables” out of sports.
College football is a professional sport. The money and contracts are obscene for such a amateur sports except for the students! Jimbo Fisher just signed $75 million coaching contract. Many ADs run like a NFL GM offices and the ADs and the coaches are flying around on private jets and getting bonuses left and right. The tv contracts are driving more money into these universities big time