College football ping.
It’s been a long time since you played in the NCAA without being compensated in some way, whether it be a sportscar or nice apartment and living benefits.
They are just being honest about it now.
Why should the NFL farm system be allowed to operate under the aegis of non-profit organizations?
Go the other direction. Return all college sports to the club model, with no athletic scholarships and coaches paid like adjunct faculty.
Tell the television networks to go pound sand. If they still want to pay for the rights to televise real student-athletes playing club level football and basketball, fine. But every penny should go to the universities’ general fund, not to the athletic department.
The direction div 1 sports has moved convinces me they do not belong on academic institutions. They are a business the same as the 49ers or other NFL teams. Academics are no longer part of the equation.
Just call the NCAA the NFL’s minor league farm system and be done with it. That’s what it is.
NCAA following in the footsteps of the Olympics. Money rules..
Translation: the NCAA wants to have control over how money changes hands.
Then again, Dick BloomingIdiot (Moron-CT) could put a dagger in UConn's Athletic Department and sue the NCAA for antitrust!
If this is required for all sports, between the money drained off from the two profitable sports and the added expense for the money losers expect college sports to drop to football, men’s and women’s basketball and enough other women’s sports to match football’s participation to comply with federal law.
Another issue the transfer portal. Not sure yet I understand the rules or if I like it. Seems mid level teams outside the top 20 may suffer.
UCLA had a freshman QB Moore. He showed little poise and they used the second guy mostly the second half. Now maybe it will benefit him to go elsewhere, but who snows. If he strayed at UCLA would get another shot.
Colorado will live and die by the transfers next year.
Welcome contrary opinions or someone who can explain the portal.
LOL!
This line made me chuckle. I mean, that's what's important, right? It certainly explains the FSU situation (for those who still maintain that it had something to do with "strength of schedule", lol)
It's not about winning or losing on the football field. The best coaches always say, "Boys. Get out there and make sure you separate yourselves from the rest of the pack and earn us a media rights deal!"
So sad. Another great institution destroyed by money and corporate power.
I think there should be two conferences. Big Ten and SEC. They will all play in the playoffs. The remaining teams will stay in FBS and compete in traditional bowls. I'm old school.
The SEC has had a salary cap for players going on decades.
So all proposals are going to make college football as distasteful to me as the pros are now.