Reason # (lost count) why the spineless NCAA needs to go away sooner rather than later

[El Paso Eagle]

So UT can basically open a shell company to pay players and that is OK. But the NCAA will go after BYU and Miami

https://www.sportico.com/leagues/college-sports/2021/ncaa-byu-miami-nil-probe-1234650215/

Cut the crap, and college president's stop acting like you give a damn about anything other than money - Break away and start the Professional Collegiate Football League and set the rules similar to the NFL and go on full contracts and salaries. Hopefully the schools left can put together a new organization to set guidelines. 

P.S. - Can someone also explain how APR is still a real thing other than in name only? Especially in BB you have so many players moving around that there is no way that they (ncaa) are actually giving a damn about grades and graduating. 

[untjim1995]

You are so right to want this schism to happen. Let those Power League Teams with gigantic budgets and fanbases go make their own way as semi-pro league. Let the rest of us play actual college football and play at a much more level playing field than anything like what we have today.

We don't need to be playing Texas or A&M when they get 100k in attendance for a game and have hundreds of millions in athletic revenues. Same with UAB versus Bama or Auburn or La Tech versus LSU. It's not a fair fight--not even close.

[El Paso Eagle]

Looks like there is an SMU group putting together a plan for a $1 million dollar a year NIL program at SMU. This has quickly turned to pay-to-play. Who would have guessed.

[HoustonEagle]

We knew this was how things would play out.  Time to look at the positives. Before, a couple extra million a year towards the program did not have a direct impact towards outcomes on the field.  Now if we can woo some rich alumni they can literally buy us a better team.  Very rich alumni could fast forward a move to the P5.  Yes I said it.  The P5.  Find the money because we have the alumni base and the TV market.  

[Professor Lambeau]

Lane Kiffin called the current status of college football’s transfer portal nothing more than free agency.

The Ole Miss coach gave his blunt opinion on the matter as his Rebels prepare for their Sugar Bowl matchup with Baylor.

“I don’t think people really say it this way, but let’s not make a mistake: We have free agency in college football,” Kiffin said Monday. “The kids a lot of times go to where they’re going to get paid the most. No one else is saying that, maybe. But the kids say, ‘This is what I’m getting here from NIL.’“

https://www.al.com/sec/2021/12/lane-kiffin-on-transfer-portal-theyre-going-where-theyre-going-to-get-paid-the-most.html

[Mean Green Matt]

14 hours ago, El Paso Eagle said:

Looks like there is an SMU group putting together a plan for a $1 million dollar a year NIL program at SMU. This has quickly turned to pay-to-play. Who would have guessed.

Totally unforeseeable. 

[Mean Green Matt]

13 hours ago, HoustonEagle said:

We knew this was how things would play out.  Time to look at the positives. Before, a couple extra million a year towards the program did not have a direct impact towards outcomes on the field.  Now if we can woo some rich alumni they can literally buy us a better team.  Very rich alumni could fast forward a move to the P5.  Yes I said it.  The P5.  Find the money because we have the alumni base and the TV market.  

I think the only catch there is that every school has those rich alumni. 

[southsideguy]

why do the paid players even need to go to class at the power five.  Just treat them as employees because that is what they are now.   Paid 50-150k to go to college, so much for the poor college student.   I don't think the regular college student is going to appreciate what is going on.

 

[GrandGreen]

It is not the NCAA, it is the court system supporting individual rights over any competition concerns. 

Not sure what the NCAA can do, there is just not a path to changing the nil and transfer rules.  

The NCAA knows what the judicial system has ruled and they are not going to be able to change it.  

The result will be an ever expanding gap between those teams with resources and those that don't, 

The only answer IMO is a split between teams on a financial basis.  However, that won't work either in the long run.  

It will morph into a pro league without any rules like the NFL that foster competition.  

This has the potential if left unabated to kill college sports.