(06-10-2022, 09:11 PM)jplarson Wrote: No slight intended to college football fans out there, but same. It's not the kids or the sport, it's the institution for me.
It's always wonderful to see decades of exploitation get turned on it's heads - and to see the players finally get paid right out in the open legally is a good thing. But since the NCAA model is directed at exploitation of college athletes and the fact that there are still plenty of people going to play college football as a means to get an education, it is going to create an outright dangerous situation where you have teams comprised of professionals going up against teams comprising college studentsÂ
At this point, the best case scenario I can see for college football is that the handful of big money teams break off to form a super league - those teams can just play each other as a de facto professional NFL Development League - and really, once that happens, I am not even sure why they'd stay attached to colleges and just not become professional teams.
But that probably won't happen because the Alabamas of the world love having the Vanderbilts of the world in the same conference to give them easy wins. And that is going to make college football unwatchable.