What Happens to College Sports After the House Case is Settled

Theoretically if a bunch of rich Yale alums decided they wanted to run back the 19th century dynasty and pay lavishly for football talent, there’s not really anything stopping them beyond the admissions office is there? I don’t see how it would be any more legal for the Ivy League to call shenanigans than the Big 10.

 

Dixie, I have long maintained that's it's a good thing for the current college football powers that Harvard, Yale, and Princeton have other fish to fry than sports, because they each have unlimited resources and an unbeatable advantage in admissions if they wanted to use it. Who needs private equity money when the promise is that after you graduate (very hard to flunk out of the Ivies) you'll BE private equity.

 

The era of any kid, in any class, staying at a school at any point is over.

TCU freshman tennis player just helped team win the national title over Texas. Literally two days later guess where he's transferring to?

 

I figure bus leagues might come back, too, at the non-BCS level.

 

This is how you know a school has NIL cash. The Horns are buying tennis players.

 

I wonder how that goes for athletes when they interview for normal jobs after graduating.

“Yeah I played at three different schools in five years, but I was chasing the bag!”

Great. What’s going to happen to us the first time someone offers a $1500 raise or you get a mediocre performance review?

 

What’ll hurt college sports more than anything is the loss of regional rivalries. Rutgers/UCLA as a Big Ten Rivalry just doesn’t cut it.

I’m not as sympathetic towards schools complaining about finances. They could have resolved this issue decades ago by coming up with some fair ways to not abuse the athletes. Instead, they clung to their antiquated concept of amateurism until it was too late.

As for me, I’ll continue to enjoy rooting for my D-III alma mater. Looking them up, even a cross country/track athlete at my old school has an NIL page charging for videos and autographs. Whether there’s a demand for him or not is another thing.

 

“I’ll give you a chance to match that offer, or I’ll be putting in my two weeks’ notice. I’m here to make money.”

 

Once you are in, that’s absolutely the right response. But getting in is the hard part, and HR departments can be amazingly picky.

 

Get ready for sponsor logos on CFB fields.

NCAA to consider allowing sponsor logos on field in wake of proposed revenue sharing settlement

 

And on uniforms.

 

Mike, etc., have had their logos on uniforms for decades. Are they not "sponsor" logos?