Would be great, but our players aren’t good enough.
With the proper amount of NIL, maybe from a sports team 
, our players would be good enough. I mean the only difference between our school and UNC, Duke, Memphis, Kentucky, etc. is a huge amount of NIL. If you pay them they will come.
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As long as the draft is in play I think connecting with the NFl and NBA and MLS is hard.
If we moved to a euro soccer model it would work better. No nfl team would want to give us money unless they knew they had access to that talent after college.
Why give us money to develop a player that then gets drafted by the falcons.
https://x.com/On3sports/status/1919869880129491220
How does this make sense? How is any program still in compliance?
And why would it matter anymore?
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What’s more surprising is that they didn’t cook the books.
FWIW, Akron was last bowl eligible record-wise in 2017 when the Zips finished 7-7. Last year UA was 4-8.
Before now, last school ruled bowl ineligible per APR was Idaho in 2014.
That is one of the funniest things I have ever read. I want to know who is taking the classes for the money sport athletes. All the Zips need to do is sue the NCAA. Everyone else does.
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The academic shit is hilarious.
These schools are lying thru their teeth.
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Twenty years into the APR, so not like it’s new anymore. And 35 years of publishing S-A graduation rates.
No but the last 2/3 years is nothing like the previous decades. With kids leaving after a semester or even mid semester - it’s ridiculous. There is no way kids are maintaining academic progress given all these changes and the continued and and growing minimization of the importance of academics - both for the schools and the players.
And given it all schools really shouldn’t be held accountable for it.
clt says just set up fake classes
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Fake classes and fake grades absolutely happening given the player movement happening now.
No academic reporting can be taken seriously after the shit chapel hill pulled.
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The pretense at some colleges is what really angers me!
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Watching St Louis play Memphis in a UFL game at the Liberty Bowl.
There MIGHT be 50 people in the stands, in that big stadium.
This league was probably already doomed, but when college gets rid of eligibility, why would ANY of these guys try to play for $30k or whatever the UFL pays? They could make several times that playing for even a G5 team like Memphis, in that same stadium, in front of at least a decent # of fans.
The UFL is doomed.
According to the league, each player gets a salary of $50,000 plus a weekly housing stipend of $400, which starts at the end of training camp and lasts for a minimum of 10 weeks.
Ok I just checked and they’re probably at least competitive with G5.
Eligibility is gonna fall. Just a question of when
https://x.com/wintersportslaw/status/1922305122639524053?s=46
This stuff has always been shaky legally. That is the exact reason that the NFL and other leagues have an antitrust exemption.
It is looney tunes to me that we are applying the strict letter of the constitution to intercollegiate athletics. We have precedent here. My assumption is the issue is all the government money involved. I just hope they leave pro sports alone.