His message is right on though. Thousands are going to lose their access to a higher education in order to satisfy paying the top 1% of college players. And in the process decades of tradition will be destroyed as well. Bilas cannot wait for it to happen. At least Chuck recognizes the massive and unacceptable collateral damage.
Before someone says it, there were other ways to solve this problem. We are here because of greed / avarice and an extreme case of procrastination.
Yes, the current situation could be solved rather quickly if NCAA really wanted to. No leadership so going to let the courts do it for them.
I think the challenge is anything the NCAA does try is getting struck down. The pendulum has swung so far against them. Not sure what they can do at this point. Their window was 15 years ago.
The way forward really is players unionizing and the schools establishing commissioner of some sort to speak in behalf of the schools and collectively bargaining. Not so sure the sport survives that though as it really is telling the public this isnāt college sports anymore.
The problem is nine of the schools - even at the conference level really care about the overall product. They arenāt worried about it they are concerned about only whatās best for their school.
At least with the NFL all the owners speak in unison for the most part.
I hate comments like this. Well Bama was paying players for years or UNLV paid Larry as justification for the move to paying players. The reality is those payments went for only the top talent and not all schools were engaged in these activities. So while maybe for a handful of schools they were already doing some of this the reality is most schools were not and even at the ones who were it was no where near at this level.
I know that most schools probably werenāt following the SECās āSorry Ethics Conferenceā and Clemsonās āItās Probation Time Again Yāallā ethos, but with the NCAA amateur mythology now crumbling, easier to just admit the truth that things were a lot more gray than black white. And always have been.
The NCAA is so mad at Kentucky they are going to give Cleveland State another year of probation.
clt says Jerry T pointed out the bias that is just getting worse now
Speaking of Cleveland State (14-6):
FWIW:
After placing caps on student athletics fees a decade ago, at least one Virginia legislator wants to lift limits on sports subsidies:
Reminder - Will āStrong-Ass Offerā Wade is at McNeese State in Louisiana.
Good example showing that money does by championships. Just wonder how long this can exist with even the so-called elite programs. And I assume the quicker these elite P2 programs rip away from the rest of those remaining the better programs like Charlotte will become.
Orā¦drop NIL
Still donāt understand how this has turned into what it is. NIL is supposed to give athletes the ability to profit from their Name Likeness and Image. Like being in local commercialsā¦being a paid spokesperson for some local business. Using their name and image and likeness to profit while building their brand is fineā¦but boosters bribing athletes in a pay-for-play bidding service is not the same.
Stop this pay-for-play nonsenseā¦and make it what it was intended. And enforce it as such.
Thereās two issues. There is the NIL part and the revenue sharing part. At its core I donāt have too big an issue with further as long as it monitored.
The issue is though this is a free country. If some idiot business wants to pay a QB 5 mil then thatās their decision.
I know we canāt but Iād rather just go back to the days of saying your education is your compensation and if thatās not enough feel free to hit the minor leagues and be a pro.
With the except of football players have always had the option. No one forced a player to play college sports.
