(10-09-2019 11:44 PM)Attackcoog Wrote:  The general public is for the California law because they think the current NCAA rules are unfair. If the general public knew those NCAA rules were there to prevent shoe companies and boosters from doing the same thing SMU got the death penalty for---my guess is those poll numbers would change drastically very quickly. Every person on this board acknowledges that if the California law was nationwide, the result would effectively become a pro pay-for-play league with boosters and shoe companies running the recruiting show. Money would become the key factor in deciding where players go. Who pays the tab is irrelevant---you'd have a pro league any way you cut it. That is the point the appellate court was making. The NCAA believes that part of the attraction of college football is that is is NOT professional football....and the NCAA isnt wrong on that point.

• The current rules are unfair
• I doubt that the general public gives two poots why the rules are there. The bottom line is that college athletes are denied what other students are allowed.
• Those poll numbers are only going to move up
• Money is the key factor determining where players go today. If a school doesn't have the dough for in-facility waterfall features, bowling lanes, wall-to-wall TV sets, locker room sleeping pods and a modicum of history, then it is not a contender.
• Big Time college sports were professionalized decades ago. "Amateurism" is a lie.