NCAA in "Deep Discussion" to Implement Revenue Sharing with Athletes

I just read the article link below in regards to the above.  It seems that college sports and college business will need to be divided.  Before long there will be the football/basketball factories where education is secondary.  And then there will be the 'back to the future' schools where education is primary and players play sport and fans watch sports for the 'love of the game'.    I wonder how many mid majors will come to the same conclusion as St Francis - trying to keep up this 'arms race' isn't worth it.  It is destroying both the sport and the educational institutions they represent.  Time to group P4 and some mid-majors into an official NFL, NBA developmental league - with sponsorship ties to those universities.   Let everyone else go back to where we were prior to NIL, Transfer Portal.  We can then get 'the love of the game' back for both players and fans. 

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TGHusker said:
I just read the article link below in regards to the above.  It seems that college sports and college business will need to be divided.  Before long there will be the football/basketball factories where education is secondary.  And then there will be the 'back to the future' schools where education is primary and players play sport and fans watch sports for the 'love of the game'. 
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I think that's what the article is saying.  Division 1 will be the former and the lower divisions will be the latter.

 
Mavric said:
I think that's what the article is saying.  Division 1 will be the former and the lower divisions will be the latter.
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Time to pick my favorite Div 2 school and buy their polo shirt!  Use to be South Dakota State where I graduated from but they are with the big boys now.    I'll always be a Husker, but as the players have less loyalty to the program and more loyalty to themselves and $$s, it becomes less enjoyable to me as a fan.  That is why I have traditionally liked college sports over the NFL or NBA.  That distinction is being lost now. 

 
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Matt Rhule is wrong... the NCAA won't be able to limit 3rd Party NIL pay. It's illegal and any attempt to limit athlete NIL compensation will lose in court.

The entirety of the House Settlement model is kind of a joke - it all hinges on prohibiting booster pay and not allowing athletes to form a CBA. Everybody and their dog knows that this isn't going to be legal, that we're heading towards a CBA, but they're going to pretend to try and hold up the old model where the NCAA maintains some jurisdiction so they can throw their hands up and say "we tried" knowing full well the entire thing was a waste of time to buy schools another year or two.

I do agree with @TGHusker and what you had to say @Mavric, we're going to be heading towards a big division of where schools want to compete. I personally don't think any of this is necessarily bad, it's all much needed, but I do think it's going to be uncomfortable for a lot of schools and fanbases that will have some really hard choices to make. I also think fans aren't ready for the impact on Title IX, and that if schools have to choose between sharing revenue with money losing sports that schools will privatize their football programs to remain competitive.

 
Yeah, I'm pretty much looking at this as just what will be the status quo for the next few years - merely the next phase of the transitional period that began with the portal and NIL, and not the final arrangement. Trying to cap the money without a player CBA in place is kinda ridiculous - it's just gonna end up right back in the courts.

 
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BigRedBuster said:
This actually might be a good idea. 
 
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I agree with ya.  Devil is in the details obviously but G5 schools get crushed with transfers leaving after developing them and it’s hard for G5 schools to get established transfers in to replace the athletes leaving without decking them for a year or two. 

 
I think the settlement approval is more of a 'not yet' than a 'not at all'.

 
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Toe said:
I think the settlement approval is more of a 'not yet' than a 'not at all'.
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I guess I get confused as to what the House settlement is and how the NCAA and their new regulations are mingled with it.  In the most simple way, Is the  House settlement just  mandatory revenue sharing?  Is the NCAA for or against revenue sharing.  My impression is that they would be for it because it gives them something to do-but I’m not sure.  Is tomorrow’s judge ruling just confirming the constitutionality that the NCAA can enforce the settlement?  
 

I feel like it went a hundred different ways. 

 
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