Will the cost of their education be deducted from their earnings; and will they only be paid if they finish at least 4 years of school?
It’s easy to distribute revenue in conferences that have profit, but not so much in conferences that don’t.
Time to spin off the for-profit programs into a separate thing to retain true college sports.
In my perfect world scenario, ND wins it all this year and then rides off into the sunset.
(Sunset meaning a league that champions academics, which can't then compete on the same footing as the paid programs.)
on our school which impact would disappear if we entered a lesser league.
coming will no longer remotely qualify as "College Football" in my view.
What should exist is a paid NFL minor league for those who only seek a professional football career. College should be for those who value an education.
That ship as sailed however...so ND has to ask: "At what price our soul?".
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Hard to imagine alums wanting ND to fall in line.
if we were like 'oh, it's legal to pay players now, cool bitches' and went and beat them at their own game buying the best rosters year after year (while still graduating all of our players) and becoming so dominant the SEC started crying about how unfair it was because of our advantage of not being in a conference. All the talk would be about how if you want to be elite like ND, you gotta get out of conferences....lmao, wouldn't that be great
On some level I think ND realizes this is where they get off the bus.
we go woke. Do any of the sports have the history of ND Football? Please!
It sucks because FB was part of what defined ND and made it special, but I don’t see ND being the sane place with pro athletes walking around campus.
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this could be our opportunity to set a new trend in a new era of CFB and show all these bitches how to do it the right way, even under the new rules.
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difference any more. I also don't see any mention of academics in these discussions. What about the minor sports? Will they also share and to what extent? Who is going to decide these issues as they inevitably arise?
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All colleges cannot afford to pay players on a big time scale so 32 colleges will become affiliated with NFL teams to help offset costs. Like MLB, they will draft highschool players and sign them to contracts to attend colleges. It will be more competitive than it is now. They may even eventually have AAA, AA and A divisions utilizing other colleges.
Except every Student and their parents will eventually be footing the bill thru continued skyrocketing tuition costs.
Maybe ND has enough of an endowment to never truely need to raise tuition but many other schools will do that, and you can bet your bottom dollar eventually ND will follow suit with increased tuition whether they need it to fund sports or not.
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