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Message: [QUOTE="Newhouser, post: 4292009, member: 5155"] Agree with all you said but this evolution pre-dates NIL, and college athletics has constantly evolved and schools are left in the wake every step of the way, and TV or media cash always drives the bus. The NCAA started to get their foothold post WW II due to a couple of things during the 50s's including but not limited to 1) point shaving scandals and academic scandals ( specifically the cheating scandal at West Point), that opened the door for a governing body. 2) the Wild West appearance of compensating players was rubbing people the wrong way. 3) Most importantly the growing presence of TV hit college sports hard - attendance was down and with gate receipts dragging (and the other factors mentioned above) schools like Fordham and the Ivy's opt to de-emphasize. The NCAA smartly fills the gap and takes control of TV limiting appearances by schools merging a perfect marriage increasing attendance while also riding the wave of the growth of TV. NCAA addresses societal ills around the games (fixing, academic cheating, inticement$) by introducing and finally settling on what we know as grant-in aid. All is well until the 70's when the have's say "I don't want to share" with the have nots and the Divisions are born. From there we all know the story - CFA, to the schools suing and taking back control of TV contracts, to what we have today. Evolutions leave programs in the dust every step of the way. NIL is just the next phase of this college athletics world, and it will result in more separation and a massive change in the landscape. SU has survived them all, but I am not confident we are ready for the next frontier. Also think its funny thru all of this - the NCAA didn't start an academic requirement until the late 60's I believe. At any rate - a lot of typing to say - NIL isn't anything new to the world of college sports. It's media and money, which are constants for nearly a century. The only change (and it is a massive one) is the players are finally getting some legalized $. IF that is the straw that breaks the back of college athletics, they have nobody to blame but themselves. That said the world of college sports has been good at pivoting and I don't think this will be any different when the dust settles. If SU is involved when the coast clears - different conversation. [/QUOTE]

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