SCOTUS rules against NCAA - the beginning of a massive change in college & pro sports

This sissy will vote just to do away with all college sports. The college sports have become a money trap that reduces the real purpose of colleges which is education.
 
This sissy will vote just to do away with all college sports. The college sports have become a money trap that reduces the real purpose of colleges which is education.

...education which, for many schools, is paid for by sports. So, your plan probably wouldn't work.

that's awesome.

I agree.

Nevertheless, it does open multiple cans of worms. Pro sports involvement will essentially begin much earlier, for instance. That means potentially far earlier retirement = pro sports will suffer when big stars bow out early - and they will be the ones doing so.
 
America is the only country in the world that gives a shit about college sports. The rest of the world find it strange.
 
What will inevitably happen is, you will have a handful of schools, your Alabama, Auburn, Ohio State, Michigan and USC type of schools, who will be able to afford escalating salaries to attract top talent, and these schools will quickly evolve into a sort of NFL development league, so to speak. (Or, for comparison, like the English Championship league that is one tier below the Premier League.) Other division 1 (or FBS, if you prefer) schools, particularly mid-majors like, say, Northern Illinois, San Jose State and the University of Central Florida, will not be able to keep up with the financial demands of paying for top athletes and will quickly sink to irrelevance, probably being forced to either drop to a lower division (i.e. competing against the Eastern Washington and James Madison University type of schools) or in some cases, simply drop football altogether.

In other words, the future for many, probably MOST college football programs, is going to be pretty grim unless they are one of the top tier as the examples mentioned above, e.g. Ohio State, Florida, etc.
 
True story.

I TA'd at a very large school whose mascot was a poisonous nut. I was given the midterms to grade. No problem...straight forward...answer right...answer wrong multiple choice. Count up the number wrong. Subtract from total possible...divide by total possible. Assign grade based on the syllabus. WRONG. Little known fact...grades were adjusted if you were a student athlete...or if you were a minority from certain schools. When I asked why to my major prof...he said it just is that way.

Let students earn their grades. Treating students differently is flat out wrong. I can not tell you if it is still that way. But it was in the early 90s.
 
I can not tell you if it is still that way. But it was in the early 90s.



I have a recently graduated nephew with a 5 Year Full Scholarship BA in Football.

I can assure you he knows next to nothing about anything else.
 
The skilled/great players can now be paid over instead of under the table. Otherwise, same as it ever was.
 
"Monday’s narrow ruling from the U.S. Supreme Court and broad warning in a concurring opinion from Justice Brett Kavanaugh puts the NCAA on notice. Any restriction on the ability of individuals to get compensated, directly or indirectly, will come under attack.

The easiest move for the NCAA will be to abandon all restrictions regarding athletes separately profiting from their names, images, and likenesses. The right move, for decades, has been to do it. The reasoning articulated by the Supreme Court makes it clear that the NCAA has no reason (and never had one) to slam the door on the ability of athletes to generate revenue for themselves — especially if the revenue isn’t coming from the coffers of the colleges."

Source:
https://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2021/06/22/ncaa-has-no-choice-but-to-open-the-nil-floodgates/
 
Well, that didn't take long...

NCAA takes big step toward allowing athletes to profit from name, image or likeness

(CNN)In a major step, the NCAA Division I Council voted Monday to support an interim policy that would allow college athletes to profit off their name, image and likeness (NIL) without violating NCAA rules until federal legislation or new NCAA rules are adopted.

https://www.cnn.com/2021/06/28/us/ncaa-name-image-likeness-spt/index.html

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"Yes, the NCAA is dead. And the NCAA is beginning to realize it."

https://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/category/rumor-mill/
 
This sissy will vote just to do away with all college sports. The college sports have become a money trap that reduces the real purpose of colleges which is education.
You've overstated the obvious. Does anybody notice that NO colleges report on graduation rates of any athletes?
 
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