Kids are immature and coaches have enough crap to deal with. With the NIL along with proposals for allowing unlimited transfers, you are gonna have kids walk into the coaches office and threaten to leave unless they match some deal that may or may not have been offered to them at another school. Think about how stressful that is gonna be on the coaching staff and even the locker room between players.

This whole thing is a big turn off for me. However, the biggest thing that turns me off is that some colleges will finance this on the back or regular students who just want an education. Nursing students, future engineers, marketing majors, etc....... students whose future careers are noble, but are not gonna be millionares and will have a ton of school loans to pay back. Those students will have these athletic fees tied into them so these football players, some who will be drafted into the NFL for millions, but even some who don't, get to walk around campus with 5 carat diamond earrings and diamond studed Rolex watches along with porches.......and you know they will buy this crap and flaunt it cause they are still very immature at 18 years old.

Once there is a CBA, and that is coming, agents with commission breath will be involved at all levels. That's when I find a lot more free time on Saturdays in the fall.

(07-26-2022 02:59 PM)ken d Wrote:  

(07-26-2022 12:58 PM)Aztecgolfer Wrote:  

(07-26-2022 11:39 AM)ken d Wrote:  

(07-26-2022 10:47 AM)Aztecgolfer Wrote:  

(07-25-2022 08:25 PM)WNCOrange Wrote:  I'm not tuning into the G league, AAA baseball or minor league hockey. I won't tune into this either. If I want to watch professional football I watch the NFL instead of some lite version of it.

I'm with you. I see the NFL no longer waiting for players' graduating class to draft as well.

That's been the case for years.

Kinda confusing language: "To be eligible for the draft, players must have been out of high school for at least three years and must have used up their college eligibility before the start of the next college football season. Underclassmen and players who have graduated before using all their college eligibility may request the league’s approval to enter the draft early."

I don't see someone like Trevor Lawrence going past his sophomore year.

So, are you saying you think the NFL will drop the three year requirement and accept players right out of high school?
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I think it is quite possible. Baseball and the NHL does it. NBA only requires one year removed from HS. Would require some sort of development roster. With CFB essentially becoming a pro league I could see the NFL wanting to take a bit of their shine off.

It's already their free minor league system.

(07-27-2022 08:16 AM)otown Wrote:  Kids are immature and coaches have enough crap to deal with. With the NIL along with proposals for allowing unlimited transfers, you are gonna have kids walk into the coaches office and threaten to leave unless they match some deal that may or may not have been offered to them at another school. Think about how stressful that is gonna be on the coaching staff and even the locker room between players.

This whole thing is a big turn off for me. However, the biggest thing that turns me off is that some colleges will finance this on the back or regular students who just want an education. Nursing students, future engineers, marketing majors, etc....... students whose future careers are noble, but are not gonna be millionares and will have a ton of school loans to pay back. Those students will have these athletic fees tied into them so these football players, some who will be drafted into the NFL for millions, but even some who don't, get to walk around campus with 5 carat diamond earrings and diamond studed Rolex watches along with porches.......and you know they will buy this crap and flaunt it cause they are still very immature at 18 years old.

that's my concern--that regular students as well as non-rev athletes will end up paying for it for football and basketball.

(07-27-2022 11:31 AM)bullet Wrote:  

(07-27-2022 08:16 AM)otown Wrote:  Kids are immature and coaches have enough crap to deal with. With the NIL along with proposals for allowing unlimited transfers, you are gonna have kids walk into the coaches office and threaten to leave unless they match some deal that may or may not have been offered to them at another school. Think about how stressful that is gonna be on the coaching staff and even the locker room between players.

This whole thing is a big turn off for me. However, the biggest thing that turns me off is that some colleges will finance this on the back or regular students who just want an education. Nursing students, future engineers, marketing majors, etc....... students whose future careers are noble, but are not gonna be millionares and will have a ton of school loans to pay back. Those students will have these athletic fees tied into them so these football players, some who will be drafted into the NFL for millions, but even some who don't, get to walk around campus with 5 carat diamond earrings and diamond studed Rolex watches along with porches.......and you know they will buy this crap and flaunt it cause they are still very immature at 18 years old.

that's my concern--that regular students as well as non-rev athletes will end up paying for it for football and basketball.

The reality is that society values sports stars far more than it does Nobel Prize winners. Those nursing students and engineering students might as well learn that lesson now.

The sport may die. Does the current generation care about their school's sports teams like boomers?

(07-26-2022 12:44 AM)HawaiiMongoose Wrote:  I'll watch the MWC schools as long as there's an MWC and UH is part of it. I know they'll never be rich enough to run their teams like semi-pro franchises. The rivalries and trophy games are fun and most of the kids are playing for the love of the sport and a free education. They'll get some NIL money too but it for most it won't be any more than what they'd earn working part-time in the cafeteria or library. I'll still feel good supporting them by buying tickets and making donations.

As for the P2, I don't really pay attention to them now and will have even less reason to do so in the future. As others have said, if I want to watch the most talented athletes money can buy playing a ball game I'll tune in to the NFL.

This for me. I watched USC because my nephew played for them and mom watched with her dad who passed away and felt alone. He’s done with college and she isn’t alone any longer. Guessing my P5 viewing will stop and I will watch MWC Pacific games only.

(07-27-2022 09:58 AM)Aztecgolfer Wrote:  

(07-26-2022 02:59 PM)ken d Wrote:  

(07-26-2022 12:58 PM)Aztecgolfer Wrote:  

(07-26-2022 11:39 AM)ken d Wrote:  

(07-26-2022 10:47 AM)Aztecgolfer Wrote:  I'm with you. I see the NFL no longer waiting for players' graduating class to draft as well.

That's been the case for years.

Kinda confusing language: "To be eligible for the draft, players must have been out of high school for at least three years and must have used up their college eligibility before the start of the next college football season. Underclassmen and players who have graduated before using all their college eligibility may request the league’s approval to enter the draft early."

I don't see someone like Trevor Lawrence going past his sophomore year.

So, are you saying you think the NFL will drop the three year requirement and accept players right out of high school?

I think it is quite possible. Baseball and the NHL does it. NBA only requires one year removed from HS. Would require some sort of development roster. With CFB essentially becoming a pro league I could see the NFL wanting to take a bit of their shine off.
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I wonder if the NFL starts their own minor league in more strategic locations for the league. Pretty sure the NFL won’t put 2 minor league teams in Mississippi.

(07-27-2022 08:16 AM)otown Wrote:  Kids are immature and coaches have enough crap to deal with. With the NIL along with proposals for allowing unlimited transfers, you are gonna have kids walk into the coaches office and threaten to leave unless they match some deal that may or may not have been offered to them at another school. Think about how stressful that is gonna be on the coaching staff and even the locker room between players.

This whole thing is a big turn off for me. However, the biggest thing that turns me off is that some colleges will finance this on the back or regular students who just want an education. Nursing students, future engineers, marketing majors, etc....... students whose future careers are noble, but are not gonna be millionares and will have a ton of school loans to pay back. Those students will have these athletic fees tied into them so these football players, some who will be drafted into the NFL for millions, but even some who don't, get to walk around campus with 5 carat diamond earrings and diamond studed Rolex watches along with porches.......and you know they will buy this crap and flaunt it cause they are still very immature at 18 years old.

You mean MOST colleges will do this. Only a small minority of ADs are cost neutral to running a surplus. A great majority already run deficits annually that has to be taken care of via the general fund.

(07-27-2022 10:21 PM)chess Wrote:  The sport may die. Does the current generation care about their school's sports teams like boomers?

IMHO, no they don't. The university/student relationship is much, much more transactional now than it used to be. Kids are getting smarter about how they choose their schools for study and will do without the pomp and pageantry. How many kids know - or care - that colleges still do the home coming court? Vast majority of kids could give a sh!t about that today.