Posted on 12/30/2025 6:38:16 PM PST by impimp
Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, has been trying for years now to get more regulations around name, image and likeness (NIL) deals in college sports, saying back in 2023 that the landscape was "in peril."
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The post pointed out that the Iowa State Cyclones, who just lost longtime head coach Matt Campbell to the vacant Penn State Nittany Lions job, only has 17 players remaining on their roster for next season. Among those players, only one was a starter.
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Because for a large number of these players, the “education” consists of ad-hoc classes mixed together that don’t lead to a real degree (see “Studies”) taught by Dr. Friend of the Program to ensure eligibility. See the UNC scandal.
“ Why? Because you find it sick that young men can make money?
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They are universities where kids go to school .
College sports have turned into professional sports attached to a college. It’s corrupt and sick.
For many (most?) college football and basketball players, their participation has little or nothing to do with education - just look at the numbers in the portal each year - their top concerns are money and playing time, not calculus and English lit.
The institutions are at fault for fostering this hypocrisy - they don’t have teams to provide kids an alternate opportunity for an education - they’re in it for the money and publicity.
So far as I’m concerned the solution is to clarify those priorities. Universities should choose between two options:
1A: The athletes are paid, can sign contracts, can be free agents, don’t have to take classes (but they can if they qualify for admission), don’t have to qualify for admission - these universities essentially just sponsor minor league teams that publicize the name of the school, though again they can provide classes for any kids who actually give a rip.
1AA: Pre-NIL/portal rules for athletes - these kids must qualify for admission, must attend classes and make grades, and if they enroll at this level they surrender any claims to the financial rewards the schools get. Their reward for playing ball is a free education (at many schools, worth a minimum of a quarter million bucks), along with free room and board and a reasonable monthly stipend for incidentals.
Probably not a perfect solution, but a hell of a lot less hypocritical.
“ Why shouldn’t college football players who bring in tens of millions each year to their respective programs have that same opportunity to get the best deal for themselves????”
These teams should be severed from the universities . They are professional athletes .
That’t the fault of the colleges that participate in athletics.
Each school has the option to require that everyone on the football team meet the same academic standards of their college of engineering.
To call it college football now is a complete joke.
So many look for “solutions”…there is no problem to “fix”.
To call them student athletes is an insult to actual student athletes. Call them what they are. The portal and NiL make them professional football players. It is absolutely absurd to think of them otherwise,
I’m not sure Nick Saban and Bruce Pearl (and a bunch of other quality coaches who’ve gotten out of the business with a good bit of disillusionment) would agree with you.
It’s about the whole thing
It’s out of control
Agreed. Why do they even have to attend ANY classes at all? At least be honest about it, going to classes is a complete waste of time for them.
fewer opportunities is actually going to hurt more college athletes then it helps.
the only solution is for colleges to drop sports altogether.
I would have loved to be treated like chattel if it gave me a free 4 yr degree plus bennies...room,board,stipends..yeah Most people would love to be treated like chattel.
Because taxes pay for the roads to the universities? this is why the federal government has a right to be involved? Am I on Freerepublic hearing this? This road argument sounds just like something Obama or Hillary would say?
Football brings in revenue to the schools….its none of the federal government’s business.
You say “ the only solution is…” - there is no problem that needs a solution. Young men making money is not a problem in need of a solution.
Why does it need to be controlled? Are you opposed to the concept of freedom?
“But the system is sick.”
The system isn’t sick, it’s enabling. And it is being treated like a business rather than an after school sport it started with in grammar school. There’s a lot of money goes into recruiting players to make a program that can go to bowls and earn funds for the conference and the college. And it is a competitive business which has been going on for many years. If a player is promised the moon and the staff that made the commitment bails, look for the rats to look elsewhere with all the defined eligibility. Nothing new here. This is old hat. And if they can get a better deal at the recruiting college, they will be out of there fast enough to leave a vacuum.
Didn’t you ever see Rudy when Ara Parseghian promised Rudy a start and then resigned? And Dan Devine, in the movie, swore he wouldn’t get one. That was not the truth however as in his recent autobiography Simply Devine, the retired coach tells a different story. He writes that it was his idea all along to dress Rudy for the last home game of his college career and also to play him. He says the reason it didn’t come across that way is because the screenwriter told him that the only way the plot would work was if Devine became the heavy. He says he agreed to go along to help out Ruettiger, whom he calls a friend.
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First up: The Dixville Notch homeschool one-man ski team.
He’s laying the ground work to run for POTUS
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