Article: As college sports faces more change, is private equity money coming in?

Sweeping change is coming? Methinks it's already here....

 

The article reads like just another step in the complete demise of college athletics as it has been known. I can't see the conferences getting behind something like this...I see them more of hanging on to control until the very end. However, I do see the revenue-hungry University President's being attracted like a moth to the flame when the $$ signs are flashed in front of them and them running over the conference commissioners like a herd of cattle to go get that extra dollar.

 

I think that this can only be decided by the market, but, if a college football team needs private capital, is it still a college football team?

 

It would be interesting to see football be separate from the NCAA. Wild times.

 

Ah Private Equity. . . Destroys everything it touches. Joy. You know it's good times ahead when these scumbags are poking around.

 

You mean like an NFL minor league? Which I've been saying for 20+ years and would have avoided all this crap? Nah, that's crazy talk apparently.

 

The nfl doesn’t care about all this crap. Its still cheaper than them funding a break even or negative revenue league on their own. Your idea is hardly original. It’s not illogical either, but it is somewhat impractical and unnecessary. As a college football fan, you like the idea. As an NFL team owner, you’d probably like it a lot less.

 

Which is why we (NCAA) should have forced their hand a long time ago and focused this on where it should be focused: The richest professional league in the world that also completely abandons player development to a 3rd party.

And the solution was real simple. Make an announcement that academic requirements are going to go up, potentially dramatically. That would give them 2 choices: 1. Create a minor league. 2. Watch the talent rot on the streets.

 

And, to your point. That ship has sailed. But it could have been headed off if people hadn't been so thick headed and bought into the "NCAA is evil and greedy" BS. No, the NCAA is a non-profit. It's the NFL owners who are guaranteed tens of millions in profit every year and use it to purchase yachts.

 

Sending all the talent to the gutter or to another league is supposed to help college ball? Lol

You know anybody that watches Ivy League football? I don’t.

 

The ncaa should have found a way to settle the lawsuit out of court and come to an agreement that both sides could live with. They decided to fight, they lost, this is what they get.

 

Who brings in more money, College or NFL

 

It wouldn't go to the gutter because they would pony up that league ASAP before they allowed that to happen. That's the point. We needed to force their hand. There's a reason this only happened in football. Because football was the only one without a pro alternative out of HS.

Oh, and last time I checked, David Price, Zunino, etc. aren't exactly Ivy League caliber players. There would be plenty of guys choosing college over minors. Difference is they would be here because they chose to be here, not because the pro league put rules in place to force them here.

 

They should have forced the NFL's hand well before that, when the writing was on the wall. But, this is what short-sighted and greedy will get you.

 

Profit or gross revenue? Revenue, it has to be college, just by the sheer volume of teams. Profit, obviously the NFL as college teams are not for profit, and they reinvest all the money back into the sports programs.

 

Gross? Probably college just due to the sheer number of schools. But in terms of net, I'm pretty sure the NFL is king there. NFL franchises are literal printing presses.

 

Greedy bastards!!!!

 

If that answer is college then you know the Special Interest Groups that run the NFL are jealous as hail to get their hands on controlling college football like they do with the NFL. This is why I do NOT want to have anything to do with NFL type college control or management. Say "NO" to a one person collage football commissioner control system.