mthoopsfan
Well-known member
This is my concern, and has been for some time as transfer rules eased up and NIL was coming into the picture. The professionalization will ultimately cause some schools to drop sports, including football. Schools like EWU, where there is already pressure on sports, may not be able to continue, in my view.
"The combination of NIL, the transfer window and the increasing domination of a few athletic conferences is a game changer. If we take it all to its logical conclusion, this professionalization of college sports will slowly kill off college football and basketball programs at many universities. It will also spell the end for the other sports at those same universities, both men’s and women’s, that they subsidize."
"Put it all together, and this effectively means that after a year or two, those shining stars at smaller programs will transfer to the schools offering the most attractive NIL packages. Meanwhile, the NIL money will be dangled in front of top high school sophomores and juniors as well. In most cases, they’ll all be sold to the highest bidder.”
"I also fear that this new approach is the beginning of the end of the great college game.”
"Meanwhile, with the millions of TV dollars driving the likes of UCLA and USC to join the Big Ten, the idea of college kids in California being paid in NIL deals to fly across the country to the Midwest every other week to expand the TV market sure sounds less like education, and more like the NFL."
"Sure, it’s true that many scholastic programs already were mere farm teams for the NFL and NBA, but for the fans, there was still a long and storied history there, keeping us close.
That history included four-year players that led your alma mater to a national championship. A history of your hometown university upsetting the top-ranked team in the country. A history of your local college recruiting players from your own state."
"So the history is eroding. The connection is eroding. And this NIL business might be the nail in the coffin.”
"The bottom line is that the NCAA could have been less greedy and more thoughtful about all this, and headed it off at the pass years ago. There didn’t need to be any Supreme Court cases.”
https://www.marketwatch.com/story/the-ncaa-has-only-itself-to-blame-for-the-slow-death-facing-college-sports-11658413109?cx_testId=3&cx_testVariant=cx_2&cx_artPos=6&mod=WTRN#cxrecs_s
"The combination of NIL, the transfer window and the increasing domination of a few athletic conferences is a game changer. If we take it all to its logical conclusion, this professionalization of college sports will slowly kill off college football and basketball programs at many universities. It will also spell the end for the other sports at those same universities, both men’s and women’s, that they subsidize."
"Put it all together, and this effectively means that after a year or two, those shining stars at smaller programs will transfer to the schools offering the most attractive NIL packages. Meanwhile, the NIL money will be dangled in front of top high school sophomores and juniors as well. In most cases, they’ll all be sold to the highest bidder.”
"I also fear that this new approach is the beginning of the end of the great college game.”
"Meanwhile, with the millions of TV dollars driving the likes of UCLA and USC to join the Big Ten, the idea of college kids in California being paid in NIL deals to fly across the country to the Midwest every other week to expand the TV market sure sounds less like education, and more like the NFL."
"Sure, it’s true that many scholastic programs already were mere farm teams for the NFL and NBA, but for the fans, there was still a long and storied history there, keeping us close.
That history included four-year players that led your alma mater to a national championship. A history of your hometown university upsetting the top-ranked team in the country. A history of your local college recruiting players from your own state."
"So the history is eroding. The connection is eroding. And this NIL business might be the nail in the coffin.”
"The bottom line is that the NCAA could have been less greedy and more thoughtful about all this, and headed it off at the pass years ago. There didn’t need to be any Supreme Court cases.”
https://www.marketwatch.com/story/the-ncaa-has-only-itself-to-blame-for-the-slow-death-facing-college-sports-11658413109?cx_testId=3&cx_testVariant=cx_2&cx_artPos=6&mod=WTRN#cxrecs_s