Student Athletes = $$$

[LandoComando]

Then let's talk about doing the correct thing here, which is establishing a minor league system for the NFL, completely separate from colleges/universities. That way the functionally illiterate players who don't make the NFL don't continue to make a mockery of higher learning.

Why? No one benefits from this. The NFL doesn't benefit and colleges don't benefit.
College football is, and has been, nothing but a big business and a minor league system for the NFL for decades. DECADES
Now players are finally being compensated and you're mad--it doesn't make sense. Nothing has changed other than players are being exploited.
And, let's be honest, how many people do you know, that didn't play football, that have a college degree that are morons? Most of them. Getting a degree doesn't actually mean you did anything other than pay for it.

 

[Op2]

Why? No one benefits from this. The NFL doesn't benefit and colleges don't benefit.
College football is, and has been, nothing but a big business and a minor league system for the NFL for decades. DECADES
Now players are finally being compensated and you're mad--it doesn't make sense. Nothing has changed other than players are being exploited.
And, let's be honest, how many people do you know, that didn't play football, that have a college degree that are morons? Most of them. Getting a degree doesn't actually mean you did anything other than pay for it.

I'd say the colleges would benefit if they stopped being seen as passing students through the university just because they're good athletes. It kinda makes a mockery of the college. Then again, colleges are already doing so many other things to make mockeries of themselves that passing athletes that don't go to class doesn't stand out as much by comparison.

 

[heckmans]

I'll tell ya what it has to do. It keeps raising ticket and streaming prices. Who pays for that? It raises hotel and restaurant prices. It's all connected. Then, folks expect alumni and others to pay NIL funds. Meanwhile, they're paying off their own student loans, if they even went to Penn State or college, while trying to take care of their own family and their college expenses.

It's nonsense, and needs a salary cap type system just like the NFL. Not only should the university pay for it, but it will level the playing field. Athletes can still do their own NIL, but to expect fans to pay for it is nonsense.

All it will take for this to come crashing down is people, like yourself, to get fed up and stop watching amateurs who act like professionals.

I think the shark has been jumped. I think it all declines once the average fan really figures it out and we see how athlete behavior changes, but who knows.

 

[LandoComando]

I'd say the colleges would benefit if they stopped being seen as passing students through the university just because they're good athletes. It kinda makes a mockery of the college. Then again, colleges are already doing so many other things to make mockeries of themselves that passing athletes that don't go to class doesn't stand out as much by comparison.

Colleges care about the money coming in from the networks. Athletes have never really been seen as true scholars. It's what started the holier than thought nonsense.