Re: A new and better FBS thread
Originally Posted by
NDSU92
Yeah I mean we really should’ve seen it coming that amateur college athletics would get ripped apart by greed. Shameful. The people who end up getting their pockets lined the best will be the anti-trust lawyers who will hang all of it up for years in the courts. All the P5 administrators saying it “needs to blow up”, no you need to put a leash on the SEC and everything will go back to normal. FWIW, this is what happens when you let some 60-odd schools make decisions on behalf of a 1,000 member institution. Oligarchy is tyranny.
I’ve kinda gotten to the point that I’m sad that all this non-profit money is being used for such a superficial endeavor. Ohio State spends $170M to help their kids put a ball in a hoop or across a line better than other schools. :/ yes, I understand it comes from fan/boosters, that’s my problem.
My problem is how little of it goes to the players seems like the SEC types are more willing to ‘fix’ that than the others. Domestic soccer in the UK for example is governed by the FA from top to bottom professional and amateur. Inside that the top for divisions, the fully professional bit is the League and they’ve got their own decision making powers etc., and at the top is the Premier League which has more autonomy still. A number of the clubs are sports clubs, plural, they don’t just have soccer. There’s plenty of tensions and fights and political jockeying but mostly it works. That structure isn’t necessarily the structure that we need but there are ways to do this.
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