Future of College Sports

[FloridaCuse]

Trump’s College Sports Roundtable Includes No College Athletes

The list, obtained by FOS, is subject to change. But it provides a window into the types of executives and officials who could attend.

frontofficesports.com

 

[GHLF]

Saban - the guy who wanted to ban the hurry up because he couldn't stop it and then was opposed to paying players because his cheating advantage would be erased.

This country has to learn that just because someone is on ESPN doesn't make them smarter than anyone else.

This will settle itself out eventually - we do not need any government intervention.

I completely disagree, Why did it happen in the first place? Greed. And that certainly is not in any way some endorsement of a political party. Something must be done, quickly

 

[FloridaCuse]

 

[FloridaCuse]

 

[FloridaCuse]

 

[Sherman20]

What could go wrong? lol.

 

[WoadBlue]

So if the Supreme Court ruled against a single TV contract, how exactly do they think going back to a single contract is ok?

If it did happen though it would fix a lot of things. Conferences in FB would no longer be needed, so we can go back to regionals in everything else. If TV $ was paid out based on what network you played on, the big programs would be better off too. The programs that would lose the most are the mid and lower tier B1G/SEC schools.

There are far too many teams and leagues in 1A (FBS) to have a singe TV deal. And just think back to when we had one. The BT had all then advantages in the few National games and in the 'regional games.' In case you have forgotten, BT territory was considered by ABC to include the entire northeast down to DC. AS UK was never any good, the Louisville TV market always got BT games. And that deal also promoted the pac excessively, being Rose Bowl paired with the BT..

The best we are going to get, best in terms of the most teams and leagues in a new Top Tier, is 4 leagues. And neither SEC nor BT is going to give up a penny in their regular season TV deals.

 

[FloridaCuse]

One school says college sports is 'running out of time.' What a bunch of alarmists

Louisville sounds alarm, spells out NCAA sports doomsday in a panicky paper. Oh, please. Your big spending says otherwise.

www.usatoday.com

 

[Cusefan95]

There are far too many teams and leagues in 1A (FBS) to have a singe TV deal. And just think back to when we had one. The BT had all then advantages in the few National games and in the 'regional games.' In case you have forgotten, BT territory was considered by ABC to include the entire northeast down to DC. AS UK was never any good, the Louisville TV market always got BT games. And that deal also promoted the pac excessively, being Rose Bowl paired with the BT..

The best we are going to get, best in terms of the most teams and leagues in a new Top Tier, is 4 leagues. And neither SEC nor BT is going to give up a penny in their regular season TV deals.

One of the pivotal moments in the history of the NFL was when the NY Giants and Mara agreed to the plan to package TV rights. At that very specific moment in time, it wouldn’t help the Giants since they had the biggest deal being in the largest market. But it helped drive the explosive growth of the NFL, so much so that MLB and NBA and trying to figure out how to nationalize rights as much as possible.

The ideal solution would be all the conferences working together to create a “league” with rights to negotiate TV deals with multiple networks - it would not be a return to the 1970s. But the SEC/Big Ten are more interested in protecting their short term interests and competitive advantages than in broad, long term growth. It’s not an indefensible position…it’s just not best for the sport overall.

Related to others comments - the claim that this doesn’t require government intervention is…interesting. Government has been intervening in college athletics for over 50 years - this is not about government starting to get involved, it’s about staying involved in problems they themselves helped to create with earlier interventions.

 

[FloridaCuse]

Texas Tech AD Kirby Hocutt Acknowledges what No One Else Will about College Sports.

https://www.star-telegram.com/sports/spt-columns-blogs/mac-engel/article314907317.html

 

[FloridaCuse]

Opinion by the Leadership of the University of Louisville;
"College Athletics is Running Out of Time"

OpEd-College Athletics is Running Out of Time

 

[FloridaCuse]

Here’s whom Trump is tapping to fix the massive money mess in college sports

A longtime college sports fan, Trump sees what has happened to a system where athletes used to spend four years playing for one school, receiving an athletic scholarship for free tuition.

nypost.com

 

[PhatOrange]

Press conference happening right now

 

[Cusefan0307]

Ohio and Pennsylvania should either raise taxes or tell their to state flagship universities they need to cut spending to pay down the debt. Ridiculous spending at both places.

 

[PAcuse]

Ohio and Pennsylvania should either raise taxes or tell their to state flagship universities they need to cut spending to pay down the debt. Ridiculous spending at both places.

We resides have ZERO control over Ped State clearly, see all the BS they have gotten away with.

 

[FloridaCuse]

 

[Cusefan95]

Ohio and Pennsylvania should either raise taxes or tell their to state flagship universities they need to cut spending to pay down the debt. Ridiculous spending at both places.

Penn State is a “state related” university - publicly funded but privately managed. I’m not sure there’s any arrangement better optimized for corruption and graft than that. “Ridiculous spending” is a near certain outcome. And that taxes will be raised is a certain one. Sadly - paying down debt is guaranteed not to be.

Like many things in the country, it’s a structural disaster that’s grown too big to have any real means available to restructure. As a PA resident, I am perpetually annoyed at the wasteful spending and cycle through amusement and horror at the dysfunction. ‘Merica!

 

[Cusefan95]

While collective bargaining is a possible solution - it’s either ignorant or dishonest to say it can be “easily solved”. I see often that the big objection from schools is classifying athletes as employees, but there’s a ton of other issues here:
- Creating a collective bargaining agreement which includes both public and private employees in the same agreement would be monumentally challenging.
- Figuring out what constitutes a “collective” of schools is a hurdle. Is it a conference? All FBS schools? Public schools as one, private as another? Multiple different collective bargaining agreements would be the “easiest” path forward. It would also be disastrous. (As a side note, I think that makes it the most likely path).
- After that, what is the “collective” of athletes”? Is this done sport by sport? All in one? Some other groupings?
- What impacts does Title IX have on this whole process?

I can see why schools would prefer to just hope for a miracle and an anti-trust exemption. This process is going to be very complex and challenging - and is guaranteed to have a lot of unhappy stakeholders at the end no matter what. I don’t think media (or some random idiot on X for that matter) spinning a narrative that there is an “easy solution” is prudent or justifiable.

 

[FloridaCuse]

Trump plans executive order to address college sports issues

President Donald Trump on Friday said he will write an executive order within a week that will "solve all of the problems" brought forth in an unprecedented meeting at the White House to address the future of college sports.

www.espn.com

 

[Cusefan95]

Trump plans executive order to address college sports issues

President Donald Trump on Friday said he will write an executive order within a week that will "solve all of the problems" brought forth in an unprecedented meeting at the White House to address the future of college sports.

www.espn.com

"They're very well-represented," Trump said. "You know why? Because people like Nick Saban and Urban Meyer, all of the people that I know in the room -- and the people probably I don't know -- they all care very much about the student-athlete more so than they care about themselves, so I think they're really here. In that sense, they're represented very well here."

Claiming that Urban Meyer cares very much about student athletes, more than he cares about himself - is in the running for the most ridiculous statement I’ve ever heard a human being utter and expect to be taken seriously.

Unhinged rants from homeless drug addicts that I’ve heard outside Newark Penn Station were more reasonable than this nonsense.

 

[SUbear]

What could go wrong? lol.

No more than what has already gone wrong.

 

[FloridaCuse]

 

[Rufus_13th]

Messing with college sports/NIL a few months before midterms.

GL! Lol

 

[Cusefan95]

No more than what has already gone wrong.

There a Russian saying which translates “we thought we had reached the bottom, but then someone knocked from below”.

More can always go wrong. Someone claiming they can fix this easily with an executive order? That’s a warning to start listening for knocking from below.

 

[Newhouser]

Being the best cheater does not make Saban a sage.