SEC & Big Whatever Discussing Potential Revenue Sharing With Players

College football is bigger than just the SEC. Unless you'd prefer an end to a national championship, and just have the SEC play each other. We're co-dependent.

I read a couple of months ago that the cold evil hand of private equity firms was shopping around a plan. If Petitti and Sankey are the heroes we need to stop this, all hail our duopoly. Private equity firms will for damn sure force me out the door.

 

We'll see "student fees" go from "the fastest-increasing part of college" to "obscene gross reason to avoid a P5 school."

 

I would rather we let them (The B1G) jump off the cliff instead of being the first to do it.

 

I dont like losing at sny and i cant stand watching it.

 

Change or die. The SEC was the first to go with 2 divisions and adding a conference championship game in the early 90s. We were right there with adding TAMU and Mizzou (two big markets and AAU schools) in early 2010s and renegotiating TV contracts. Adding Texas and OU in the recent expansion was the right thing based on fit and profitability. We will continue to lead the changes with the B1G to drive this next chapter of college football. I get that many don't like it, but you can be a part of the change or have it leave you behind like the ACC or PAC-12.

 

It will be a different game in the next few years. As others have stated, either get on board or get left behind. If the NCAA has become obsolete and irrelevant, some kind of governing body and set of rules is needed that everyone is being held to.

 

Will we eventually be going to a salary cap like the NFL or NBA? If so that comes under a CBA. That is another can of worms. I don't know where all this is going. What I do know is that transfer portal needs to be one time only and if you transfer you can only do it one time and you must sit out a year. Enough of this merry go round.

 

The first thing you have to recognize is that the NCAA, and member schools, have already lost one any trust lawsuit. Damages in those suits can be trebled meaning that this is a multi billion dollar issue.

It was the NCAA that broke the law and created this mess. They must negotiate a broad settlement with extensive payments to address their past and create a construct that shows they will not engage in anti-competitive behavior again.

People used to laugh at the NCAA as it turned to blind eye to bagman and payoffs in college athletics. The current situation just makes it all above the table that this is a for profit sport business.

My hope is that in return for paying players they create contracts that greatly limit the current portal madness, and implement revenue sharing in a way that gives as many programs as possible a chance to compete.

 

Yes, the timing of the Portal window is clearly a problem. There are players now opting out of playoff games even (see Penn State backup QB - Pribula)!

 

Just to expound on my earlier thought. We need to fix the transfer portal... The NIL is still NOT the true main issue.

 

Cap won’t get rid of NIL.

 

Lol, expect the fan experience to get more expensive, not less.

 

Another court ruling that will tumble some more dominoes.

 

UF was #14 at $865mil.
A little surprised the annual revenue is only $189mil, while the top program pOSU is at $280mil.

What the top 75 college sports programs are worth

 

I think mostly boosters are looking for their donations to be tax deductible when given to the school instead of nil.

 

The only lawsuit of recent consequence that the NCAA has lost is the one that prevented the NCAA from limiting NIL. The ones that have cropped up since then have been settled (House), or the proposed rule withdrawn (transfers).

Its funny that you refer to this as a "for-profit" business, because I don't know many (any?) Universities or Colleges that fit that category. Universities and colleges really have no business running a massive professional league. The taxman should recognize it for what it is, Unrelated Business Income, and tax it accordingly.

The cost of is skyrocketing.....most Universities and Colleges subsidize their Athletic Dept rather than the other way around. What actually will most likely happen is that competition is going to be limited to the select few programs in the top tier (BIG and SEC have already established the caste system). There will be other sub-sets that play in a much smaller sandbox without much ability to compete with tier 1. Additionally, I think there will be a big shakeout of schools that drop athletics altogether or drop down out of the FBS rather than lose money hand over fist trying to compete with the professionals.

 

They both contribute to the problem....no NIL and there isn't nearly as much portal madness for players looking for their next contract. No unlimited portal and that severely limits the players that want to shop for the best NIL deal (which is why they sued a year or 2 ago when the NCAA attempted to re-establish rules around how many times a player could transfer or having to sit out for a certain period).

 

Absolutely. Revenue sharing for 2025 just blew a $20M hole in the UAA's budget. You can be sure that they aren't going to fill that hole by transferring $$ from the academic side of the house. Prices and booster fees will be going up to back-fill that deficit.

 

Wow...we have taken a tumble. 15 years ago we would have been squarely in the Top 10 and maybe even Top 5.