2024 College Football Discussion

College Football could really benefit from pro/rel.

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That’s not as far fetched as it may have seemed just a few years ago.

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Players think they should have some say in their sport:

Silly players. This is a Coaches’ Sport. You are merely pawn in game of life.

But I do appreciate the old college try. Will this make UAB a more attractive place for players to play? Maybe. Do the current players know that when better players transfer there, they might be, how do they put it, stuck on the sidelines?

Damn, this is really going to shake things up now.

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The death of college/amateur sports, at least for men’s football and basketball…and maybe even baseball.

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I agree that I dislike this implication that amateur sports is now officially corrupted into minor leagues that feed the NFL and NBA.

I’m not sure what the implications are for the track athletes, the tennis teams, the gymnasts, the volleyballer players, the fencing team, the swim team, etc.

I personally think the transfer portal was the death blow. This just is the stabbing of a dead body.

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There were bound to be successful professional-level development leagues formed. Honestly, any time there is a gate requiring payment for admission, the players should be paid. Soccer and basketball are already there, with European clubs paying professionals instead of there going to college and getting injured for free. Fuh-baw was always going to be a little more difficult to set up, since it involves injuring players for life as a strategy.
Now, colleges can be just like cities that forgo education for the opportunity of fielding winning teams!

Even when I was in HS they charged an admission fee to get into the varsity level football and basketball games. You are saying they should be paid as well?

Yup. We could make it more complicated by accounting for the expenses of putting on the game, of having a team: coach, gym, stadium maintenance, etc.

So we have a gate fee mainly to fund ref pay starting at 1st grade basketball. Pay those 6yos?

Again, if we want to make it more complicated by considering expenses, go for it.

Yeah, we actually paid for the privilege of playing and we had fundraisers to help fund things as well.

But, of course, the question about colleges paying their players would come to are the athletic departments making massively huge profits after current expenses? If so, where are those massive profits going? And now that they are going to have the expense of paying the players, what is going to be cut or what prices are they going to raise to provide for those new expenses?

I asked that already. “Sorry, we’ll have to cut the Sciences Departments…”

From past reports, not a lot of athletic departments make a sustained profit. But this web site begs to differ somewhat, and it doesn’t make it easy to determine profits. (I have to do math in my head!)

Colleges make big money from the sale of merchandise, so I would assume a portion of those profits will go to the players now.

There is a balance to be struck here, but its not a bad thing that the balance of power in these things has moved away from the College administration.

If we count expenses, should we have a “salary cap” of sorts on things life coaching costs, facilities, etc?

Should.
But, won’t.

This doesn’t 100% belong in this thread but probably has the best odds of an answer here.

Anyone heard of a school named Lindsey Wilson College in Kentucky? The reason I ask is I am watching a Toronto Argonauts game (CFL season starts in June) and their QB is a young guy named Cameron Dukes from that school. He’s very impressive for someone who played for a (presumably) second tier school.

Tiny little bible school that used to be just a 2 year college.

Seems like the type of place where science classes teach creationism instead of evolution.

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Yeah, I looked it up. It’s a school I never heard of, in a conference I never heard of, full of other schools I’ve never heard of.

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without me checking, is “Incarnate Word” in that conference?