I don’t think a profit sharing agreement will work out real well for the athletes. All you see and think about is football money, but this is bigger than just football. The athletic depts don’t generate tons of excess money. Only the top programs operate in the black. All this money being generated to fund their deals now won’t even be counted in a profit sharing deal.
Not as it sits right now. Footballs pays for entire athletic departments but that may not always be the case. The top schools are on an entirely different level. There aren’t probably 40 that actually generate all the money, the rest are dead weight. Will boosters continue to fork it over after the schools take all the profits? Sounds too good to be true for the schools. They’ve got a business generating billions but I doubt it continues like this. Tickets, TV, and merch etc pay the nfl franchises and it’s a rather successful business model. Colleges just keep 100% and spend it however they choose. I don’t see that happening for too much longer. Pretending there are 130+ division one teams while 30-40 hide amongst them making insane money and having boosters and collectives pay their rosters is pure robbery. They deserve everything they get when it all falls down.
College football is going to go out with the boomers. The average age of a CFB viewer went from 47 in the year 2000 to 52 in 2016. It's simply not gaining young fans at a rate that replaces older fans. This move is going to drastically lower the amount of younger fans because their is no value proposition. Professional with second tier an athletes, no association with the school other than basically a free license to use logos, destruction of rivalries, players with so little loyalty that nearly entire rosters seemingly change every season. This is what happens when you reduce every decision down to a short term revenue increase instead of what's best for the product, players and consumers.
Nailed it, not to mention even pro teams don’t overhaul the roster yearly. Without an emotional connection to anything but a uniform the attraction of college football will wane dramatically. This will force universities to reimagine the role of athletics. The idea that wealthy boomer boosters will funnel extravagant sums yearly to procure talent yearly is definitely unsustainable. I could see an ‘endowment’ fund being set up by the collectives as a way to fund ‘NIL’ payments. The collective could maybe include a liquidation clause for returning funds to the contributors should they cease to exist as an entity. This would allow for growth of spending resources and also a ‘cap’ based on ROR of the endowment. This is the only way forward I see for private payment responsibility for talent. There is no way wealthy boosters will toss money in the garbage yearly at the rate some are now.
I cannot for the life of me see why anyone would just pay a player an NIL payment. One thing to be a donor to a school but another to have the school collect all revenues on game day, tv contracts, etc. and I just donate to get a kicker who transfers next year? No thanks.
Never met him but he seemed like one of the most genuine nice people from interviews, etc thru the years.
Yeah, it’s not like Auburn doesn’t win football National Championships. They have five. It’s crazy to suggest that such a storied program would not make some sort of imagined cut line.
I don’t watch pro football with their overpaid meatheads who do stupid choreographed dances in the end zone, preach to me about my “privilege”, and act like tackling someone while 21 points down warrants a trophy. Yes, there are some good sportsman on the field, but those who think that they are God’s gift to the sporting world spoiled it all. The NFL stink permeates the dorms of the upperclassmen, who play the “Don’t hurt me!” game to the tune played by draft ranking mariachi bands instead of honoring the schools and fans who honored them first. I’ve already stopped watching anyone but the Gators, I didn’t even watch the College Football Playoffs, and another year of the NIL will probably have me finding something better to do on Saturdays. Semi-pro sharks who are completely uninterested in getting an education, swimming around kids struggling to achieve academically, doesn’t interest me one bit.
I'm in the same spot really. It's a shame, NIL could have been great for the sport if players got compensated for use of their name, image and likeness. Great players who are loyal to their team, fans and school would make tons of money getting a cut of merchandise, doing commercials, promoting events, autograph signing, etc... I've never had an issue with a system like that. Always thought it was dumb a player can't sell an autograph or something which isn't directly paying them for playing and maintains amateur status in my opinion. College physics students can similarly make money doing appearances or other activities. Instead CFB has basically been turned into a real life version of a pay to win video game.
A growing consensus of those consumers that watch this "thing", once called College Football, that crawled out of the test tube, concocted by the greedy and media and power broker interests, devolve into diarrhea, before our very eyes.
oh, what kind of trade are we talking? Another player or an electron microscope for the science department?
