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Essentially you need to give the players the power to collectively bargain, i.e. a players union.

Right now e are in the wild west. It’s only going to be this way for a short time. Sometime soon players will be paid employees and will need to sign contracts.

Essentially you need to give the players the power to collectively bargain, i.e. a players union.

Right now e are in the wild west. It’s only going to be this way for a short time. Sometime soon players will be paid employees and will need to sign contracts.

Is this a troll attempt? It seems like you’re coming at this in bad faith. You know exactly what I mean. If you don’t, you can take the night and figure it out.

I don’t understand your example. What do you mean by standing in the church?

There is no going back. Frankly, the idea of investors purchasing teams is probably the best path forward, if it leads to a super-conference that is NFL-lite.

Same here (regarding MLB)! I used to scour over the box scores in the newspaper, knew stats of many players, watched the standings and games religiously. Then free agency happened. Then the strike happened. Then my interest died, almost completely. Maybe it was for the best, as I devoted way too much time to it.

The same has happened to me with…[Read more]

Why? Because you believe I should. Here’s one example to satiate your appetite. Standing in the church. We deem these actions as a negative representation of our faith, and if you continue to engage in these actions, there will be repercussions. Seriously, was it that hard to actually come up with that yourself?

I think the only hope is for a super-conference to form that becomes a de facto professional league. It would then have some rules about contracts, salaries, etc. The current model is wholly unsustainable. NIL is the death of college football as we knew it…hopefully, it is not the death of college football altogether.

If you’re going to argue that they could/should enforce it, it’s definitely on you to provide an example of how they could do that legally.

This is similar to what happened for me with MLB.

In the early 90s as a Pirates fan it really turned me off when Bonds, Bonilla, Van slyke, Bell, Drabek, Belinda, Smiley, Carlos Garcia, Rafael Belliard, Jose Lind were broken up due to $$$$. That was the end of MLB for me. I attend maybe one or two Rockies games a year. And Sid Bream, you’re dead…[Read more]

Yes, I fear your feelings are shared by many (including me). If things are not reigned-in in a balanced way, I think a lot of fans are going to turn the whole thing off.

A combination of the networks and naked self-interest by players is going to kill college football as we know it. Without any guardrails or ground rules that everyone has to play by, then fans’ entertainment dollars are going to go elsewhere and college football will become a worse version of the XFL.

Agreed. NIL is the wild west. There are no real rules. It is a mess, and it is going to kill the sport. The beauty of college football (in my opinion) has been getting to know the players, see them develop, and cheer for the alma mater. I liked that the players were trying to play their way to the next level and a paycheck.

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I’ve read everything you wrote, but I can’t tell if your issue is w/ NIL in general or if you’re just discriminating against religious institutions. Based on everything you wrote, it sounds like both.

The argument I made is they shouldn’t allow it. I’m sure there are ways they could enforce it, but again, it’s not my job to provide you with examples on that. If or Notre Dame wanted to stop such things, they most certainly could.

Where we are, NIL is a cancer on college athletics. I’ve never donated to any collective nor will I. So…[Read more]

I am a Utah fan. Have been my whole life–including many rough decades. Also, I am not a fan of NIL. I am not a defender of the system. Just a defender of fairness within the system (despite its flaws).

My gripe is people calling out another school for doing the very thing our school is doing (and, frankly, wish we could do better).

Yes, BYU…[Read more]

I told myself that when we started losing players to P2 NIL $$, I’m out. I think I’m going to have to evaluate how serious I am about that.

So you are saying he is not going there because he is getting paid? That is pay for play, paying someone before they have produced anything money. Only 5.5 mil. If you are a member and Ute fan without blue goggles I am surprised you think this is something you would expect of the church run institution. I know the church isn’t paying, I’m tal…[Read more]

In late October – I felt that the team morale was at an all-time low and that we would lose many players to the portal. My thoughts were right. Losing Calhoun is the biggest loss so far IMO.

We do not have the capability to do what Colorado did. Coach Prime was a huge draw for obvious reasons. He could turn the entire team over in two…[Read more]