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The NCAA needs to be very specific about what can and cannot be said about the funds players are receiving. Teenagers will ABSOLUTELY make their decision based upon how much money they can make right now, not later. This may ruin college sports! The definition of professional is "a person engaged in a specified activity, especially a sport or branch of the performing arts, as a main paid occupation rather than as a pastime." I don't watch the NFL for a reason!
We are witnessing a huge shift in college football from the transfer portal to conference realignment. The NIL is only a part of this shift. While we all like to take shots at Saban he honestly tries to look out for the best interest of college football and the players. Once the sport decides to go in a particular direction, he then is going to try to maximize any advantage he can. Now we don’t like that because it seems so many coaches and teams are always in the catch up mode.
For me where all of this gets messy and where it will impact the game the most is the line between “pay to play” is going to be almost nonexistent. At the moment there are no definitive rules for NIL at either the NCAA or SEC level. Even when or if a uniformed set of rules is established, and remember the NCAA is hoping Congress will do this, there is no effective way to police it. The enforcement staff for the NCAA is like 15. I just don’t see AD turning themselves in for violating theses rules.
Probably my other concern is college football could become a regional sport much like NASCAR. At the moment there are not a lot of good teams in either the west or the north. We all should hope MI and USC become power houses once not to give OSU problems but to keep more people interested. Interest equals viewers and viewers equal more money and this is the real reason for wanting to expand the number of teams in the playoffs. If we are honest, most years there are not 4 quality teams in the playoffs.