A "new" lawsuit (filed in 2020) was just allowed to proceed and award class-action status and is being described as a potential "kill shot" for the NCAA and current model of collegiate sports. The trial is set for January 2025 and it will undoubtedly go through several years of appeals after that . . . but this could well be the end of the NCAA. Judge's ruling could lead to billions in damages as 'worst-case scenario' rears head for NCAA The sharks are circling and smell blood (on in their cases $$$$$) in the water and it seems too many lawsuits for the NCAA to win them all.
Also, for those who say "Good!" . . . remember the NCAA is a buffer. Ending the NCAA won't stop lawyers from suing. They will just target individual schools instead. It will open Pandora's Box, if it hasn't already been opened enough with NIL.
Al of those involved - the schools, players, agents, corporations, etc. seem to forget it is the FANS who make college football what it is. The sport is being destroyed with no consideration for us.
I said at the time that NIL would end up destroying amateur athletics as we know it. Greed and the many ills it spawns is burning the world down right now, why should sports be any different?
How destroyed? That’s a strong word. Stadiums are still full- 90,000 at UF for a so so product Princeton Dartmouth played on TV friday night. We watched a little. College attendance is up!! College football attendance rose in 2022 with largest year-over-year increase since 1982 It will look different. The ‘sky is falling’ worry isn’t productive. If NIL is hurting football, explain JMU, Duke, Air Force, Mizzou, Tulane and Kansas. 25% of the Top 25 doing just fine. Year 3 of NIL
Maybe this is the kind of thing we need to reset this whole mess. Whatever happened to playing football with students who chose to attend the university? Our favorite sport has been in a flat spin for the past decade plus. Screw all the greedy bastards and let them all deal with the reality that they’ve done this to themselves
I think the Power conferences should leave the ncaa and form their own guvernin body and make some iron clad enforceable rules
Key words: governing body, ironclad, enforceable. With no NCAA and billions to be made, why hold anyone accountable to anything?
True. Once this mess ruins itself, we will all pine for the glory days of missed extra points, blocked punts, porous defense, 12 men on the field, and procedure penalties galore.
Being a Gator pitcher in the 70’s would I be eligible for NIL ? Video games were pretty hot back then ya know
2022 was a rebound from the largest drop ever. College football attendance declines for seventh straight season to lowest average since 1981 The per-game national decline of 1,629 fans in 2021 is the steepest ever, a 3.93% drop from 2019. Does College Football Have An Attendance Problem? Since reaching an all-time high in 2008 at 46,971 average fans, home FBS attendance has now dipped below the 40-thousand mark. FBS average attendance has declined every year since 2013.
Using attendance is disingenuous. There are 133 FBS teams with more than half playing bad football in stadiums that sit less than 30,000 and are lucky to get 10,000 to 15,000 to show up.
Please. The college attendance percentage increase cited in that article-5%- is a ROFLMAO joke. It ignores the lockdowns during the covid years when NO ONE went to games. In fact, those numbers should instead scare the crap out of Athletic Directors around the country. They would certainly scare me.
When the reconstruction of Ben Hill Griffin stadium begins they should eliminate 40,000 seats and bring the seating to 50000 or 52000 to avoid bare seats in the stadium and we would have all seats filled. They announce a sell out for games and there are about 6000 seats available because of no shows. Bring the seating capacity down to these levels and the stadium will be packed! They can put in the exotic seating for all fans not just a few. The ticket prices to date warrant a change some where!
