Men's football and basketball is now just loosely regulated minor league sports.

The top of the P5 will buy all the best players and then the other P5 will fight over the scraps.

The huge conference payouts the P5 get in comparison to the G5 means that they can divert more private donar money to the NIL slush funds instead of facilities upgrades, etc.

Players the P5 miss that blossom at a G5 will be bought and transfer to a P5 after a year or two if they don't just go directly to a higher level pro league.

Sure, there will be a handful of exceptions where a few players choose to stay at the G5 / lower P5 but that is what they will be: exceptions.

It'll probably take a few years to completely change but it's going to happen. Any attempts to prevent this free for all will be key with a slew of lawsuits.

(05-22-2022 06:42 AM)TigerBlue4Ever Wrote:  

(05-21-2022 01:09 PM)tiger1016 Wrote:  

(05-21-2022 01:04 PM)murphster Wrote:  

(05-21-2022 11:26 AM)Marc Mensa Wrote:  College sports is no longer about the fan & its going to end up alienating the very people who pay the money to afford the NIL’s. The golden goose is being cooked.

I'll wait and see what occurs over the next couple years but I already feel like I'm losing interest in college sports. Changes like the transfer portal and NIL. I understand why players may want money or why a player may want to transfer but there other issues created by these changes.

College sports in general sucks. If the Tigers didn’t have a football and basketball program, I wouldn’t watch any college games at all.

Same here.

Likewise

(05-23-2022 12:26 AM)BIGDTiger Wrote:  

(05-22-2022 09:53 PM)former guest Wrote:  

(05-22-2022 07:47 PM)mapdude Wrote:  

(05-22-2022 07:59 AM)cmt Wrote:  

(05-21-2022 01:04 PM)murphster Wrote:  I'll wait and see what occurs over the next couple years but I already feel like I'm losing interest in college sports. Changes like the transfer portal and NIL. I understand why players may want money or why a player may want to transfer but there other issues created by these changes.

Agree completely. I have little energy left for this dumpster fire. When the players on the Grizzlies are more likely to be back next year than a college starter, there is a real danger of nobody giving a crap anymore.

There were good ways to get student athletes well deserved stipends, but $8,000,000 contracts while other players get nothing is not it.

Welcome to the real world. In the NBA, Ja gets a $200 million deal, and another kid get a 2 way contract. That's reality. Your worth is what someone else perceives it to be. Not everybody gets a trophy in the real world.

But the discussion isn’t about the real world. If a player is good enough at that age to rake in $$$ of that magnitude, they should be able to skip college and go get their $$$. In what “real world” do people get free health care, free or low-cost meals? A fair stipend for all would be enough for those that play collegiate sports. Plus, they get access to an education that can help them the rest of their life.

Yes, in real life you get paid for what you bring to the table. But college isn’t real life…yet.

I have to disagree. College is every bit real life. When I went to college I didn’t play sports and I was allowed to work and earn money. The GI Bill paid for my college. But that didn’t mean the army didn’t have to pay me a salary and give me food and lodging. I got it all from the army. And I wasn’t prohibited from making money when I got out and went to college.

These players are getting a free education yes. But all of their spare time is absorbed with their sport. It’s a profession whether we like it or not. If they are not allowed to make money on their NIL then it’s no different than indentured servitude.

You're personal ability to make minimum wage or millions while in school has nothing to do with this. This is college athletics. This is 100+ teams all supposedly on a reasonably level playing field but now the players are being openly paid to play against each other. If one team has a salary cap of $87,000,000 and another has a cap of $15. Why would anyone watch? It was already corrupt and completely unfair, but now, what little hope there was is gone.

This was supposed to be students from your school playing students from their school. I know that disappeared long ago, but this is probably the final nail in a coffin that's been hammered on for 50 years.

Recent photo of players parking lot - Texas A&M

Again, may be college athletics now, but alienating fans & boosters & paying 19 year old kids 8 mil per year only to see them transfer out next is not sustainable. Its not sustainable for boosters & its not sustainable for fan interest. Again, college football has seen a steady attendance decline for the past decade with last year being the largest on record. These transfers & payoffs are only going to further alienate the people who the schools depend upon to pay or justify payment. The schools know there is a huge problem looming & this bubble will burst.

A&M vs Bama

(05-24-2022 10:59 AM)dcg141 Wrote:  A&M vs Bama

and just two years later, both Saban & Fisher are gone.

(05-21-2022 10:17 AM)mapdude Wrote:  In this new era of college sports I don't think the kids care as much about bowl games and the NCAA tourney anymore. They are more interested in the $$ and getting to the next level. Because of that I don't think NCAA penalties have as much weight in a kid deciding where he will play.

What do ya'll think?

It’s been coming for over 30 years. Think Ed O’Bannon. Think huge tv money and coaches shoe deals. Coaches moving from school to school. You will never see a Jim Boeheim who stays 50 plus years at a school again. To quote Pete Bell “it’s about money $&%* damn money”