Looking at this as a one season at a time measurement is foolish. It also will destroy programs by rerouting the competitiveness of college football and other sports to certain universities and keep them there while the less talented players will be forced to attend less academic schools for their education, until their sport becomes unaffordable.
Football builds money for books and test tubes. So with programs that will get all the airtime on ESPN and FOX, along with the lucritive contracts, will be supplying cash to the universities and will be affording the buying of the more talented players on their way to the NFL. I remember in Rudy a comment the coach made when he said they have room for 90 student athletes on their football team and all were scholorshipped and they have no more they can fund.
Look at it as what has happened with title X, only in reverse. When money was shifted within a college away from the mens’ programs to the womens’ it destoyed the lesser attended programs of the men. Sure the women got the money, but a number of established programs bit the dust.
And the fallout is ruining education as it is much bigger than people realize. Around 80 Division I programs no longer exist, affecting roughly 1,500 athletes with underfunding being the decisive factor. Furman baseball had a 125-year history. East Carolina men’s swimming won a conference title in February and a few months later no longer existed. Power Five schools — Iowa, Stanford and Minnesota — have discontinued programs.
If that day comes, as it recently has for hundreds of academic athletes this year, they are forced to transfer to a new school or give up their sport to stay on campus. Coaches lose their jobs and must move their families for the next one. And student athletes can no longer stay on campus due to money problems...dropouts. This process repeats around the country, each time beginning with an emotional team meeting that leaves athletes scrambling to adjust. So creating a system that opens this problem up, is going to be the end of colleges as their sports programs are a selling point for their future. And it also is going to obliterate the competition of our country against foreign sports programs. And a side note, how many foreign athletes will be brought in to fill player slots and kill education bennies for American born student athletes that wouldn’t make it without the funding? It all becomes money that will be rerouted to certain colleges. And if they make the program big enough, there will be no underdog coming up to beat the giant. David will never get the rock for his sling.
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The evidence doesn’t seem to support what you’ve posted there. Yes — it’s true that major sports like football and basketball are huge revenue sources for NCAA Division I schools. But the quality of education at these schools has declined over time as the sports revenues have grown. When was the last time a school with a top football or basketball program had a Nobel prize winner? Has it ever happened? And aren’t the top academic schools in the U.S. the ones with terrible sports teams — or even no sports teams at all?