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.
Who exactly would argue for this? The players? The coaching staff? The broadcasting networks? University Board of Trustees? The NCAA?
Because I'm having a difficult time trying to imagine who would honestly prefer your arrangement to the one currently in place (much less what's being recommended by the NCAA).
The universities absolutely do not want this. Look around the world. In only one country do you see universities associated with major sports teams. That also happens to be the only country in which people maintain fanatical loyalty to their schools and donate huge amounts of money to their schools.
Take away the school fight songs, the marching bands, the cheerleaders, the gold plated facilities and especially the football and men’s basketball teams, and the money spigot will be turned off. American universities are the envy of universities around the world for the fierce devotion and loyalty and generosity of their fans and especially alumni. Several European school chancellors, etc have come to the US seen how its done and tried to get that going in European countries. It has never worked there. This is a unique part of American culture. We should preserve it.
I agree. I think one could argue that has the most advantages to improving collegiate education.
Whatever proposal should promote competition among colleges to improve academics (and flush neo-marxist schools down the drain).
For example, TV money could go into a national general fund that goes into individual colleges funds, spread out according to the size of the student body, with an equal allowance to pay coaches, give athletic scholarships, and other operational costs. The best players would only be motivated by (hopefully non-woke) academics, the coaching quality, and school pride. Discuss...
Let the NFL and NBA develop their own minor leagues for non-students and make tons of money.
Far too logical to have any chance of serious consideration.