ND payout

[deadirishpoet]

Well I like to think that CFB will go to a full professional style, pro-standard revenue split, and will become, not a minor league sport, but a full on major league pro sport, which it always has been. The only way one could ever characterize it otherwise, is to cite the deliberate phony fiction of 'amateurism', which is bullshit, and is being legally and structurally dismantled, with the evil NCAA fighting it every step of the way, including this last ditch effort to get a antitrust exemption, I think, but maybe they've set theirs sights lower than that, I'm not a lawyer. An antitrust exception being a thing, a little legal creation where you get to break the law with the govt.'s special permission. Which the NCAA is quite okay with, being the criminal scumbags they are.

In any case, in that event, that of full professionalization, maybe it's not inevitable that ND will have to join a conference. There's so many unknowns, but all of those unknowns usually include super league scenarios. Especially considering the absolute shitshow of conference realignment, driven solely by economics. So it's not really the professionalization of players and their income considerations that will drive the change, it's the schools themselves, and their desire to make so much more, by having only like 40 teams, divvy up all the real money. But there's a lot of tradition in CFB so it's a touchy area. Who does and doesn't get to make that final cut. But ND certainly will, and finally they will be part of a football league, no longer unaffiliated and 'independent', and much to their chagrin!

There is not as much tradition left as you might think, and each year or two there's less.
Some how one professional league is not good enough for some, and to make things professional you will need to eliminate more of the tradition. The same tradition that made college football one of the greatest games in this country.
From what i understand the universities don't want to make these players employees, some (I wonder what that number really is) obviously don't want to be students.
By removing this off the college campuses elevates the damages to the tradition obstacles that concern you have, and allows all the major corporations to buy a team in each state.....
Problem solved

 

[deadirishpoet]

I disagree here, they will have two 32-34 team conferences like the AFC/NFC at some point in the not so distant future.

I have listened to coaches like Saban and Meyer talk about this for a decade and they’ve been very accurate on where it was going, so I tend to think they’ll be right on this as well.

Don’t be shocked if Saban is the head of the entire thing within a few years from now.

Saban and Meyer?
I wouldn't trust these two to put together a raffle without any underhandedness

 

[burmafrd1943]

I disagree here, they will have two 32-34 team conferences like the AFC/NFC at some point in the not so distant future.

I have listened to coaches like Saban and Meyer talk about this for a decade and they’ve been very accurate on where it was going, so I tend to think they’ll be right on this as well.

Don’t be shocked if Saban is the head of the entire thing within a few years from now.

but not ONE huge super-conference, which is what I said.

 

[deadirishpoet]

Well when the players eventually strike, we can put your intransigence to the test. Schools don't want that, it looks really tacky, makes them look really greedy, which is why they're trying to nip it in the bud and offer them a paltry 20% of the gross. But one thing the schools definitely want is elite level players. They're not going to lock them out and play walk on level players. Because that's what would be the end of CFB. And the end of all that money!

Please let them strike, and the games will go on. Because there a certainties

Fans love cheering on there favorite teams regardless of who the players are, and show up to the games

Universities will still get TV money, playoff money

All the while these players on the picket line will be an after thought

 

[francade]

“Saban and Meyer?
I wouldn't trust these two to put together a raffle without any underhandedness”

lol 💯

 

[Shakin' Down the Thunder]

There is not as much tradition left as you might think, and each year or two there's less.
Some how one professional league is not good enough for some, and to make things professional you will need to eliminate more of the tradition. The same tradition that made college football one of the greatest games in this country.
From what i understand the universities don't want to make these players employees, some (I wonder what that number really is) obviously don't want to be students.
By removing this off the college campuses elevates the damages to the tradition obstacles that concern you have, and allows all the major corporations to buy a team in each state.....
Problem solved

Well stated. And this is why I love CFB less and less evert year. It's the old rules and traditions that made the game great. Unfortunately, everything goes the way of money.