OT: $1,000,000 to transfer?

[Skeets]

But who could you draw with $13.95?

$13.97 if you can get that 2 cent guy to kick in.

 

[Skeets]

Oh it’s going to roll into HS sports real soon.

I posted way back at the beginning of the NIL discussion that this would have profound effects on HS sports.

 

[reno tony]

We are watching the end of college sports.

I wish I could give you 1000 likes on this one.

 

[TCC Kid]

OK and point taken. How would you solve this then. A totally free market society needs some type of regulation. That is the value of anti-trust regulation that encourages competition by limiting the market power of any particular firm. The obvious goal was to not overly concentrate market power or form monopolies, as well as breaking up firms that zhave become monopolies.

What year was the Anti-Trust legislation enacted? I think the Teddy bear was created then.
Your point, as I wrap my brain around it, is well taken. This whole NIL think isn't easy for an old fan of College sports to swallow. Purity in belief rarely allows for anything.
The problem with this type of legislation is that while it appears to solve one problem, without in depth consideration a flood of problems/issues never conceived can cause unexpected REAL problems for the kids. The problems we citizens have is: We believe our people in DC are as smart as the smartest Citizen--all too often they are NOT. Citizens, without DC influence can always do better.

 

[seeya27]

What year was the Anti-Trust legislation enacted? I think the Teddy bear was created then.
Your point, as I wrap my brain around it, is well taken. This whole NIL think isn't easy for an old fan of College sports to swallow. Purity in belief rarely allows for anything.
The problem with this type of legislation is that while it appears to solve one problem, without in depth consideration a flood of problems/issues never conceived can cause unexpected REAL problems for the kids. The problems we citizens have is: We believe our people in DC are as smart as the smartest Citizen--all too often they are NOT. Citizens, without DC influence can always do bet

This isn't about what anyone likes or wants. The P5 schools may have wanted a system without walls or ceilings, but it's going to create unintended consequences for the P5 schools they will absolutely regret or will be unsustainable. You don't need to be a futurist to see an enormous cliff approaching.

First, there is no governing body for college football at this moment -- and I know of no organization of almost any size that doesn't have some governing rules. A cartel perhaps (mafia), but even groups like this have some unwritten rules and a leader at the top. In CFB, is it a super group (P5s) of football schools? Is it the SEC? No one knows.

Just trying to unpack one piece of this: are the leaders of the 65 P6 schools (like WSU, OSU, and KSU) going to want to play under the same unfettered rules as AL and GA? Because all 65 schools will have voting rights and I can absolutely assure you their interests are not aligned.

Right now, any school/booster can offer unlimited limited dollars to HS students and matriculating college athletes. So a talented college freshman can be recruited (poached) by other schools at any time during the academic year, in an auction, free-market way? Hell, there are no rules, right? So every player is an open, individual auction from his junior year of HS on? Forget what I like or believe...is this really a sustainable system?

No one -- NO ONE -- hates the NCAA and its past ways more than me. And I don't have a romanticized view of college sports. But a utopian system of no rules & unlimited money won't & can't work. And if it does somehow survive, only a handful of schools will want to compete in that system. Most can't. No sporting entity worldwide that I am aware of operates this way. All sports have limits, regulations and caps to allow the game to be competitively fair and profitable for the owners, players, and leagues. CFB is going to need to have something of a level playing field, otherwise, it will lose credibility and fans.

Just my opinion though.

 

[seeya27]

Nick Saban, Kirby Smart both call for increased NIL regulation in college football: 'You're going to have the haves and have nots'

Nick Saban and Kirby Smart both called for increased NIL regulation, warning that the same teams otherwise will continue to dominate college football.

www.espn.com

I rest my case. Unintended consequences and unsustainability are going to level the playing field.

 

[Ron and Vida]

Who says the consequences are unintended? This is exactly what big athletic departments had in mind. Buying and selling players just like the pro teams they are.

I am completely clueless about this BUT as you all know when it comes to mens B-ball and football and big money players like the NCAA ESPN etc
college amateur athletics is a joke
So as I see it we are painfully evolving to a new beast

 

[Redux]

I think the natural outcome of what looks to be becoming a regulatory/legislative vacuum is that players just move from team to team with a kind of centralized player commodity market of bids and asks. Coaches will put their teams together each morning, and particularly on game mornings, based on the previous day's buying & selling of player futures on that exchange.

There are some issues to be worked out. Transportation and such.

Some old fuddie-duddies might yearn for "the good old days" and see this new exciting environment as chaos. Too bad, dad.

But I too am a traditionalist at heart and I'd like to see some stability. That's why I mentioned "daily" player movement but maybe that will be hard to enforce because of lawsuits. Certainly no players should be moving from team to team for higher pay during live play; I'd like at the very least see this restricted to timeouts to keep things under control.