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[QUOTE="maxxyz, post: 3125713, member: 350"]
There is a reason there are federal Title IX laws.  Changing them will take as much work and politcal clout as changing the gun laws.

College sports is all a marketing tool for the individual colleges.  Games on TV, creating a fanbase, keeping alumna connected - It's not just sports.  It's branding for the organization.  Only the top 10% - 15% of schools make money overall from their athletic departments.

Why can't the top 32 football schools create their own league and make their players professional?  Players aren't students and don't have to go to school.  Pay them 100k a year, and let them make what they can for their likenesses.  And if they underperform they can get cut.  Seems to me this is the inevitable ending once this starts.

And honestly it wouldn't bother me that much.  The players who have the talent and the drive to succeed get paid.  The others can get a college education.  But it seems unfeasible to treat 347 D1 schools exactly the same when they are wildly different.
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