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The slippery slope just gets slicker.
We are watching the corporate money takeover of college football. Communities and tradition can be cast by the wayside for more dollars. Everything has a price right? We can see the dismantling step by step. Essentially free agency and put the players on payroll. After they are developed and collect their NIL money, they can just off to the next higher bidder. Wash, rinse, repeat.
The money driving all of this does not care about your community, the tradition of schools, nor the average fan. It is all about ROI, just as any corporate entity would see it. They are savvy. Once they get the teams to agree to and start playing the game on the terms of those that control the money, the golden handcuffs are on. It is a short trip to completely dismantle the sport as we knew it and and simply focus on maximal revenue generation to exclusion of the things that made college football unique.
First we pay the players, sometimes insanely high amounts. Then we allow relatively unencumbered transfers, then we say having the games on campus is really not important…because more money. Some players only see the short term money, and it impacts their success going forward (see KS previous comments re likely draft pics not reaching their potential). This recipe seems to benefit primarily a relatively small group.
I stopped watching the NFL years ago. The current college football model is morphing into a close facsimile of that NFL model. It becomes less enjoyable with each passing step of the deconstruction. People seem to willing to go along with the deconstruction as long as dollars keep coming. What happens when the "product" is gone, no longer resembling what drove all this change or "progress" in the first place?
Yep. That’s Also insanity in my humble view. I understand they essentially work year round what with recruiting and all. And they get paid for their expertise. But $10 mil per year ??!!?? That’s pretty extravagant to my notion.
Please don’t throw to many rocks at me, if you do make sure their made of soft foam Lol. But the very bottom line of All bottom lines is Fans.
Without fans the sport would dry up and wither away. No demand No need for supply. Same for all these pro sports. Hard to blame any one individual person. Most of us if we had $$ Millions waved in our faces we’d take it to !!
So I guess the real only way to stop it would be a Massive number of fans stop watching and supporting in Any way. And I don’t see that happening very soon. It Might happen down the road IF and When fans get fed up with it all.
But I think that’s still quite a few years down the road. @Kasey along with others have properly cited the original basis of the problem. The cowardly and well paid officials of the NCAA. And no telling how much under the table $$ those folks Might get each year. Could be very very lucrative. Sad to see such a once wonderful sport in its death throes. 😥
wait till private equity and foreign interests get involved
It's coming.
i know
It's already here: https://frontofficesports.com/private-equity-college-sports-elevate/
And the article just covers the tip of the iceberg. I have it on good authority that there are PE's talking to just about every major college team.
Like many have said, this trend is troubling. There's no replicating on-campus college football, especially in the south. I've loved going to so many small town, college town, venues. If what Auburn is doing grows, I'm out. Having said that, I enjoy the occasional "pre-season" games UGA has played in Mercedes (Oregon, Clemson). I don't think those were home games that moved to ATL but an opportunity to play a game in addition to home schedule.??
If there's one thing good in the article, maybe it will put some pressure on hotels in the college towns to stop gauging fans with outrageous rates, 2 night minimum, no cancel, etc.
Final nails in the coffin. Tis the way of the private equity and corporate world. Take over, change it, destroy what was in favor of something that gives short term gains, bleed it dry, then off to the next project, and leave things lesser than they found it. Yes, a slight oversimplification, but not by far. Saw the same thing in the medical world, and it has destroyed much of what was good before all their money and edicts contaminated most of it. Reckon the college players will look like NASCAR drivers soon emblazoned with sponsor saturated uniforms. Maybe they will leave a small spot for the name of the school.
So where is the money from the big television and satellite contracts? Stop paying outrageous salaries with outrageous buyouts and there would be money. Tickets are out of sight now
This can only be seen as a step toward a new pro football league. Schools like App State, West Va, Kansas State, etc will never keep up. They’ll have to form a new type of college football similar to the old days. I hope to be a fan to that league.
And just wait until Saudi Arabia offers two schools like $20 million each to play a game over there. They'll market is "The Duel in the Desert," or some such nonsense. I mean, there's already a game in Ireland every year so, obviously there is nothing that says an NCAA game has to be played on U.S. soil. Who's going to turn down that kind of money?
Heard it first right here from DD, you are probably right.
I think this NIL thing is starting to get out of hand. A 17-18 year year old kid who has some athletic abilities goes to collage he is given a scholarship, room and board ,tuition, books, supplies and other miscellaneous things. Now they are getting millions more in NIL money and they are talking about ways to give them more? It is unreal. How much money do they need to play a GAME ? I wish that plumbers, electricians, welders and other craft positions had this kind of opportunities given to them . Someone who REALLY makes a difference in the world. GO DAWGS