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Message: [QUOTE="Jetskies, post: 4810111, member: 12253"] agree with you. But they continue the charade because, as always, there's TOO MUCH MONEY to be made by those making the money. Who's that? ESPN, Fox, CBS, NBC, Apple, CW, etc. the NCAA, the bowl committees, advertisers, all of the conferences, and ultimately the universities themselves. taking it pro returns the universities' football teams to what the spirit of college football was about (students playing sports and representing their colleges while also getting a true education as their [B][U][I]primary[/I][/U][/B] endeavor/pursuit) but those days are long gone. To turn this pro, you're essentially creating the junior NFL, which then takes the teams away from colleges, takes the best talent outside the college sports sphere, and leaves colleges with a significantly diminished pool of players to pick from. Essentially, all of college football immediately becomes at best low-level FCS talent, but predominantly D2/D3 talent. No one wants to watch a Michigan/Ohio St. game or Notre Dame/USC game with guys who are only good enough to play at CCSU or Wagner. I don't have a solution, but i also know the "pro" thing won't happen because the powerful colleges love this setup and what it does for their brand and pockets [B]BEYOND [/B]the athletic department. Check out Alabama enrollment/endowment trends in the pre-and-post nick saban eras. This is the part i feel like people forget, in the money sense. Conference payouts are not the real money-maker for schools like michigan, whose endowments are in the billions. The exposure and branding provided by elite football is worth more than a [I]comparatively [/I]tiny conference payout. And the players are happy to avoid going to class and major in "interdisciplinary studies" which is essentially High school 2.0, because that was never the point anyway. These administrators and coaches and NCAA governing officials are robbing them of a future, given that the vast majority of them will NEVER smell the grass on sundays. truly tragic. [LIST] [*]where is maurice clarett today? [*]glenn dorsey? [*]the countless P5 offensive linemen who paved the way for future famous QB's and RB's, but couldn't get into the NFL [I]themselves[/I]? [/LIST] etc. etc. --- you get the point [/QUOTE]

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