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Post by TPAztec on May 23, 2024 16:05:21 GMT -8
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Post by Frantic on May 23, 2024 17:09:17 GMT -8
College athletes are professional free agents on one year deals.
It's pay to play. No salary cap. No restrictions. The Wild West. Programs with the most money will win. Maybe in the end that was the just result all along? Who knows?
Just five years ago Tony Bland was convicted of the Federal crime of receiving $4,100 to steer a kid to USC. Now Great Osobar is signing a one-year deal for $2M.
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Post by AZTEC4LIFE1992 on May 23, 2024 17:31:22 GMT -8
This is the profit sharing of $20-$25 million per year contained in the House settlement. Settlement will take months to finalize, probably for 2025-2026 season. Plus, a lot of questions to answer on how much to pay each player, each sport etc. Can they pay football players more than women’s swimming under Title IX? This will lead to unionization amongst players and collective bargains |
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Post by tuff on May 23, 2024 17:53:35 GMT -8
Hahahaha. So long to college sports.
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Post by chris92065 on May 23, 2024 18:58:44 GMT -8
Eventually this will lead to schools leaving the ncaa and form their own league.
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Post by aztecking on May 23, 2024 19:55:17 GMT -8
What purpose does the NCAA serve now? They don’t enforce anything anymore. Very soon athletes won’t even need to be students other than in name only. They won’t have classes.
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Post by Den60 on May 23, 2024 20:24:31 GMT -8
Hahahaha. So long to college sports. It will happen if this is completely unrestricted. Why watch AA when you can watch the Show? Hell, when the Chargers said they were moving, they became dead to me. I don't miss them nor the disappointment I felt in following them. Same can be said of collegiate sports because I've always thought of them as different from the pros. I'm sure I can forget them as well. Since the Chargers left I have had so much more time available on the weekend for myself. I am sure I will adapt if college sports destroy their brand ans well. |
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Post by Ambivalent_Fan on May 23, 2024 21:03:59 GMT -8
10 Football / Basketball Predictions:
1) There will soon become a professional Saturday league consisting of 32-40 teams with certain universities as owners. The Saturday league will directly compete with the NFL
2) There will no longer be any student athletes…but rather full-scale professionals
3) These professionals will be signed to multi-year contracts.
4) The NFL will no longer draft college players because “college players” will be professionals playing in the Saturday league
5) The remaining 90-100 college teams will act as feeders to both the Saturday league and the NFL
6) There will be a similar professional university basketball league, but it’ll be on par with Europe / G-League as the NBA will remove the direct-from-high school rule.
7) The university basketball league will sign high-schoolers and transfers from other colleges to multi-year contracts.
8) The remaining 300+ schools will field a basketball team but will act as feeder schools for the university league and/or the NBA.
9) Athletes in both the Saturday football league and university basketball league will form a players' union and will bound by a collective bargaining agreement.
10) All the other university sports will remain as truly amateur sports with some scholarship / NIL / direct payments to the players.
11) Congress / IRS will rule that donations to NIL collectives are NOT tax deductible, this will cause some larger donors to stop funding the NIL collectives
I would bet the house that 6-7 of the above predictions become reality in the next 3-5 years…
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Post by junior on May 23, 2024 21:07:21 GMT -8
I'm sure we can find another good purpose for the $10K or so that's currently going to SDSU for Tix and Aztec Club 'dues'. At this point it's just throwing good money after bad…  |
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Post by perch on May 23, 2024 22:13:10 GMT -8
There will be no more classes or grades to worry about they will just be professional teams losely linked to a university.
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Post by Ambivalent_Fan on May 24, 2024 4:40:43 GMT -8
There will be no more classes or grades to worry about they will just be professional teams losely linked to a university. My opinion is that these professional teams will be HIGHLY linked to a university… |
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Post by couldashoulda on May 24, 2024 6:14:01 GMT -8
Hahahaha. So long to college sports. It will happen if this is completely unrestricted. Why watch AA when you can watch the Show? Hell, when the Chargers said they were moving, they became dead to me. I don't miss them nor the disappointment I felt in following them. Same can be said of collegiate sports because I've always thought of them as different from the pros. I'm sure I can forget them as well. Since the Chargers left I have had so much more time available on the weekend for myself. I am sure I will adapt if college sports destroy their brand ans well. You said exactly what I would have said. I was a life long Charger fan and season ticket holder. Once they left, they were dead to me. I golf on Sundays now instead of watching the Chargers, or really any NFL games until playoff time. What I believe will happen is some sort of legislation that will put restrictions and provide a framework for how NIL is used. Might not be in the next year, but at some point in the next several years, I think it will happen. If not, then yeah, I too will not be invested or interested in "College" athletics. |
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Post by longtimebooster on May 24, 2024 6:30:19 GMT -8
What purpose does the NCAA serve now? They don’t enforce anything anymore. Very soon athletes won’t even need to be students other than in name only. They won’t have classes. Hate to break it to you, but it's been this way for decades now. Remember back in the "good old days" when schools and leagues actually had a GPA requirement for athletes. Frequently, athletes would be sidelined or booted from school for missing too much class or for the GPA falling below 2.0. When was the last time you ever heard that happening in college football or basketball? Never. Ever. So you're telling me that out of the tens of thousands of college football players and basketball players, not one has ever had their grades slip or been on academic probation? That's statistically not possible. I'm sure half the athletes are either serious or semi-serious about going to class, doing schoolwork and getting degrees. The other half? Not so much. |
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Post by aztecking on May 24, 2024 6:32:06 GMT -8
What purpose does the NCAA serve now? They don’t enforce anything anymore. Very soon athletes won’t even need to be students other than in name only. They won’t have classes. Hate to break it to you, but it's been this way for decades now. Remember back in the "good old days" when schools and leagues actually had a GPA requirement for athletes. Frequently, athletes would be sidelined or booted from school for missing too much class or for the GPA falling below 2.0. When was the last time you ever heard that happening in college football or basketball? Never. Ever. So you're telling me that out of the tens of thousands of college football players and basketball players, not one has ever had their grades slip or been on academic probation? That's statistically not possible. I'm sure half the athletes are either serious or semi-serious about going to class, doing schoolwork and getting degrees. The other half? Not so much. Short memory, huh? It literally happened on our own basketball team a couple seasons ago. Does the name Chad Baker-Mazara ring a bell? |
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Post by aztecfred on May 24, 2024 6:38:10 GMT -8
Wonder if kids will actually have to go to class to be eligible n play now???
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Post by sleepy on May 24, 2024 6:58:44 GMT -8
I didn't renew season tickets for football last season -- and hoops for the coming season. After 50+ years following college athletics, I'm not really sure what I'm looking at anymore.
It's almost as if the Girl Scouts said "We're reformulating Thin Mints". Rather than buying my usual 10 or so boxes from the get-go, for the next couple of years I'm going to just sample and see what we're talking about. If I like the product, I'll jump back in with both feet. But Thin Mints is pretty much engrained in my DNA at this point. I know what I like -- and what the college athletics powers-that-be come up with better be good -- or it's just "New Coke" (as I unabashedly mix my props)...
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Post by bnastyaztecs on May 24, 2024 7:04:22 GMT -8
Wonder if kids will actually have to go to class to be eligible n play now??? Can always put a "go to class" "get at least 2.8 gpa" clause in their contract...if terms are not met...dismissal from the team/job...the military academies have always operated in this manner...paid their players...and they go to class...so I see a similar structure for 90 percent of players on the roster...of course, the best of them will be poached/transfer...but the majority will not.... |
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Post by perch on May 24, 2024 8:47:36 GMT -8
What about some of the players who actually want to get a college degree? They will be at a disadvantage as they would actually have to go to class and study thereby not being able to attened all the practices, conditoning. etc that all the other professonal team mates would be doing. They would be left out.
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Post by survalli on May 24, 2024 9:04:12 GMT -8
they would have to make them employees. we will see how far they will take this.
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Post by longtimebooster on May 24, 2024 9:35:32 GMT -8
Short memory, huh? It literally happened on our own basketball team a couple seasons ago. Does the name Chad Baker-Mazara ring a bell? No short memory. Of course, I remember Chad. I also remember Evan Burns, who got bounced because he couldn't hack going to class or managing a college course. But those are outliers. And it certainly almost never happens during the season. It also almost never happens to star players. Too much $$$ at stake. I recall an interview with Darren Smith a few years ago with a college player who became an NBA lottery pick. Smith asked the player to describe their typical day. The player said it was basketball 24/7 and went on to describe shooting baskets at 5:30 a.m., followed by a training table breakfast, followed by drills, followed by weight room, followed by lunch, followed by shooting drills, followed by team practice, followed by training table dinner, followed by team film, followed by open practice in the gym until 10 p.m. Darren Smith followed up by asking, "Wow, and do you ever have time to sneak in a class?" The player responded with, "Huh?" Seriously. It was ridiculous. |
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