Gopherguy0723
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The NCAA is about to change for the better very soon. Thank you California.
The one thing MN has going for itself is that we are in a good media market. If it goes full commercial and NFL-style, they will want this market. Now, will the market exposure be able to beat out an established college football brand from a smaller media market? I don't know.It’s fascinating as any (further) widening of the competitive rift would certainly lead to an extremely tilted playing field and programs like MN will instantly become hopelessly noncompetitive in the revenue sports. It has to make one wonder if the FBS then eventually splits into an NFL-like ~30 team league and everyone else folds into a second tier league..
This isn’t schools paying players.
This is like if some car dealership wants to put up a billboard with a Stanford volleyball player’s face on it, and pay her $2000 for her image.
I’m failing to see how this has any significant impact. I would like to see the NCAA study this and see if their rules can be amended to allow it.
But I’m sure folks here can think of valid hypothetical scenarios that I’m not seeing at the moment. Would like to hear them.
That's a huge gap already.A big reason why people are against that is because then boosters could simply pay recruits to come to their school which would widen the gap between the haves and have nots.
What if the car dealership in Minnesota pays it's player $2,000 but the dealership in Columbus pays a player $200,000?This isn’t schools paying players.
This is like if some car dealership wants to put up a billboard with a Stanford volleyball player’s face on it, and pay her $2000 for her image.
I’m failing to see how this has any significant impact. I would like to see the NCAA study this and see if their rules can be amended to allow it.
But I’m sure folks here can think of valid hypothetical scenarios that I’m not seeing at the moment. Would like to hear them.
Those are valid points and concerns.
My response goes something like this, and you're free to say it isn't valid because it's not exactly talking about college teams: I think a free-agent star NFL or NBA player could make a lot more money from endorsements in LA or NYC than he could in Minneapolis. But, we still are able to get star players to come play here.
Hopefully it would be somewhat similar?
Um no we aren't... for the exact reason you stated...
Barr chose to stay here instead of going to the Jets?
Cousins? -- OK maybe not the best example, ha!
The more I think about the future, the more I think you need to remove all academic benefits and eligibility targets. No more scholarships, no more GPA eligibility requirements. Make the teams semi-pro sports clubs that are sponsored by the Universities and pay the players a market rate salary and allow them to accept endorsements (For the majority of CFB players on the roster, I think this will be a VERY small amount of money, maybe even less than the value of their scholarship today). If they choose to use that money for school then that's great, if not then that's their choice too.
Barr is 4x Pro-bowl, starter his first five years in the league, for whatever that's worth?
The size of the market doesn't really affect NFL free agency because the endorsement deals aren't as big but it absolutely affects NBA free agency where endorsements and shoe deals are much bigger.
Lebron and Kawhi leaving great situations to go to LA, KD and Kyrie to Brooklyn, Lebron and Bosh to Miami, Shaq and Dwight to the Lakers back in the day etc. Small market teams hardly ever get superstar or even star free agents in the NBA.
Stars are known by even casual fans across the league. Barr is "arguably" a good defensive player, but a league star he is not.
The more I think about the future, the more I think you need to remove all academic benefits and eligibility targets. No more scholarships, no more GPA eligibility requirements. Make the teams semi-pro sports clubs that are sponsored by the Universities and pay the players a market rate salary and allow them to accept endorsements (For the majority of CFB players on the roster, I think this will be a VERY small amount of money, maybe even less than the value of their scholarship today). If they choose to use that money for school then that's great, if not then that's their choice too.
They could most definitely do that. "College" football (you couldn't even really call it that, you'd have to come up with a new name) would then go the route of college baseball, or worse, and hardly anyone would watch or care. The money would dry up and no one, including the schools, would be generating any meaningful revenue. But at least the players would be able to get paid peanuts from the tiny pot of revenue generated.