College FB- 2024 - Chaos Reigns

[hawkjt]

The changes to this sport are only accelerating this offseason.

- Yesterday the. DOJ joined 7 state AG's. In a suit against the NCAA in an effort to eliminate the current rule against immediate eligibility for athletes after 1 transfer.
Looks like another loss in the courts for NCAA.
Soon we could see a player flip at halftime to face former team.

As of today , U OF WASH will return 3 starters from their title team with zero offensive returners.
They come to Kinnick in October so hawk fans will see how they fare.
Mich and Bama return 6 and 7 starters as of this moment.
If Harbaugh leaves Mich they will lose more.
Clearly losing your coach in this environment will devastate your roster thus giving established coaches even more leverage to extract huge pay raises like the FSU, TX, coaches have received.

Meanwhile the latest 2023 financials are coming out for some schools athletic depths and they are not pretty.
Between Cal and UCLA their expenses exceeded revenues by 80 million last year.
RU lost 28 million last year.

How can these schools afford the proposed 30k/ athlete payout that NCAA president Baker is touting?

This is madness.
Something has to give besides fans just ponying up more and more.

 

[JRHawk2003]

The changes to this sport are only accelerating this offseason.

- Yesterday the. DOJ joined 7 state AG's. In a suit against the NCAA in an effort to eliminate the current rule against immediate eligibility for athletes after 1 transfer.
Looks like another loss in the courts for NCAA.
Soon we could see a player flip at halftime to face former team.

As of today , U OF WASH will return 3 starters from their title team with zero offensive returners.
They come to Kinnick in October so hawk fans will see how they fare.
Mich and Bama return 6 and 7 starters as of this moment.
If Harbaugh leaves Mich they will lose more.
Clearly losing your coach in this environment will devastate your roster thus giving established coaches even more leverage to extract huge pay raises like the FSU, TX, coaches have received.

Meanwhile the latest 2023 financials are coming out for some schools athletic depths and they are not pretty.
Between Cal and UCLA their expenses exceeded revenues by 80 million last year.
RU lost 28 million last year.

How can these schools afford the proposed 30k/ athlete payout that NCAA president Baker is touting?

This is madness.
Something has to give besides fans just ponying up more and more.

Quit paying for this nonsense. Vote with your wallet.

 

[Heathen Raider]

Quit paying for this nonsense. Vote with your wallet.

I remember when free School and training Table were a HS Kids dream

 

[ichawk24]

Iowa is gonna be a home 7-point favorite over national runners-up Washington.

Madness? Cut coaches salaries, that is where the real waste occurs.

 

[JRHawk2003]

Iowa is gonna be a home 7-point favorite over national runners-up Washington.

Madness? Cut coaches salaries, that is where the real waste occurs.

No argument there.

But as fans, if we watch less and go less, they cant pay coaches more.

 

[BrotherHawkeye]

The changes to this sport are only accelerating this offseason.

- Yesterday the. DOJ joined 7 state AG's. In a suit against the NCAA in an effort to eliminate the current rule against immediate eligibility for athletes after 1 transfer.
Looks like another loss in the courts for NCAA.
Soon we could see a player flip at halftime to face former team.

As of today , U OF WASH will return 3 starters from their title team with zero offensive returners.
They come to Kinnick in October so hawk fans will see how they fare.
Mich and Bama return 6 and 7 starters as of this moment.
If Harbaugh leaves Mich they will lose more.
Clearly losing your coach in this environment will devastate your roster thus giving established coaches even more leverage to extract huge pay raises like the FSU, TX, coaches have received.

Meanwhile the latest 2023 financials are coming out for some schools athletic depths and they are not pretty.
Between Cal and UCLA their expenses exceeded revenues by 80 million last year.
RU lost 28 million last year.

How can these schools afford the proposed 30k/ athlete payout that NCAA president Baker is touting?

This is madness.
Something has to give besides fans just ponying up more and more.

Every passing year we are more and more just cheering for laundry, to borrow from Seinfeld. And it's costing us more and more every passing year to cheer for that laundry.

Add: Further frustrating this is the government now being involved in this. But at the same time, the NCAA dragged their feet on this for so long, so fat, dumb, and arrogant to see that this was changing and they failed to get out ahead of it. Now, political ends are involved, so everyone involved will want their pound of flesh. As noted, some schools may get so upside down on costs v. revenue that they'll just have to get out of the game, literally.

Classifying players as employees is not a solution, just another rat's nest of other problems, some probably bigger than what we see now.

 

[pistachio1999]

We are in transition. There will be a union or unions. There will be contracts.

 

[Packer54]

The changes to this sport are only accelerating this offseason.

- Yesterday the. DOJ joined 7 state AG's. In a suit against the NCAA in an effort to eliminate the current rule against immediate eligibility for athletes after 1 transfer.
Looks like another loss in the courts for NCAA.
Soon we could see a player flip at halftime to face former team.

As of today , U OF WASH will return 3 starters from their title team with zero offensive returners.
They come to Kinnick in October so hawk fans will see how they fare.
Mich and Bama return 6 and 7 starters as of this moment.
If Harbaugh leaves Mich they will lose more.
Clearly losing your coach in this environment will devastate your roster thus giving established coaches even more leverage to extract huge pay raises like the FSU, TX, coaches have received.

Meanwhile the latest 2023 financials are coming out for some schools athletic depths and they are not pretty.
Between Cal and UCLA their expenses exceeded revenues by 80 million last year.
RU lost 28 million last year.

How can these schools afford the proposed 30k/ athlete payout that NCAA president Baker is touting?

This is madness.
Something has to give besides fans just ponying up more and more.

Crazy......and having the DOJ with 7 state AGs will muck it up further.

 

[MelroseMauler]

OK boomer.

 

[JRHawk2003]

We are in transition. There will be a union or unions. There will be contracts.

The question is; At what point do we end the scholarship system and just pay them, have contracts, collective bargaining, etc.?

 

[BrotherHawkeye]

i don't think that word means what you think it means
We are in transition. There will be a union or unions. There will be contracts.

At least as it's being used today.