Agree 100%

100% quad.

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WTH does Fox news have to do with anything here?

Someone once said ...

"no matter how good she looks, someone somewhere is already sick of her"

Yes it has we need to keep it towards the top.

Excellent post TtT. Agree 100%

Gabby Johnson (Blazing Saddles)

"I wash born here, an I wash raished here, and dad gum it, I am gonna die here, an no sidewindin' bushwackin', hornswagglin' cracker croaker is gonna rouin me bishen cutter. "

Interesting. Unlike baseball or basketball, football players do not have the strength or technique coming out of high school to make it in the pros. A minor league system would have to offer a lot including TV exposure that the college players enjoy today. Very rarely do you see a minor league game in any sport available on TV. College would still be the place where players can be seen on TV unless the networks throw money at the minor leagues, which they haven't done so far in baseball, basketball or hockey. I think CFB would still be exciting because it would be the only game on TV. Plus, a lot of player development can happen over the course of 4 years. Those 3 star athletes will have a chance to achieve their upside. Just a few random thoughts.

Grumpy old man quad!

Some of the richest most influential men in the world are boosters for their universities. UTx has the chairman of Exxon/Mobil. Oregon has the chairman of Nike. Too many others to name here.

Never underestimate the power and influence of rich people when it comes to legal matters. These giants of industry are not going to lay down their arms and let a cadre of 2-bit lawyers ruin what they've worked so hard to build. Have faith in our corrupt system!

There are very few schools who turn a profit from athletics. Most require a subsidy from the academic side.

I realize that watching a cash resource (booster money, TV money, gate receipts, etc) dry up would be hard for the schools to fathom but most are already operating in the red.

If they just can't bring themselves to do anything different than they're doing today then they're probably too sick to take the medicine.

At one point in time the Big Ten, the Ivy League and the Pacific Coast Conference (now known as the Pac 12) were serious about cranking out scholars who just happened to be athletes. If they were going to give someone a scholarship they expected that person to be a scholar. My oh my how times have changed.

Then came the "athletic scholarship" which was invented to give the southern schools an advantage. They couldn't offer the academics of an Ohio State, Stanford or Cal Berkley but they could offer a poorly-educated kid from meager circumstances a chance to play football. And thus the dumbing down of expectations for student athletes began ...

I applaud Delaney for stating what is important. He may be painting himself into a corner but football is a game; it is NOT more important than education.

I'm sick of the whole pay for play BS, and I agree with Delaney's view; that the education and lifetime economic benefits associated with a university education are the appropriate quid pro quo for its student athletes.

If you want to play football or basketball in college then go to college. Your payment is your education. End of story.

I'm getting really tired of the spoiled jocks and ex-jocks crying about what someone owes them. Life, at it's best, is ****ing hard and no one owes you a damn thing. Sorry if you squandered your collegiate opportunity to get ahead in life.

If it weren't for $17 million weight training facilities, professionally run S&C programs and top notch coaching the players receive in college ... NONE of these players would be ready for the pros. ZERO. They would be laughed off at the free agent tryouts. When is that going to enter the discussion? Look at what the colleges have spent preparing players for the pros. So when it comes to who owes what to whom, everything needs to be up on the table otherwise it's just another whinefest by the jocks who weren't serious about college in the first place.

What's funny (sad really) is that one of these new rules ... the one granting unlimited promotional materials ... had already been designated the "Fathead" rule. Spurrier hatched a proposal to send Fatheads to recruits ... hence the nickname.

From NCAA Website: "Rules Working Group recommends Board suspend recruiting-related proposals"

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"... Some coaches and administrators expressed concern deregulation in this area might lead to a recruiting arms race that will overwhelm prospects, college coaches and athletics department budgets..."

That's the 2006 thru 2011 data.

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I can't put enough emphasis on this.