No, need to eliminate NIL completely and stop being the NFL’s minor league. If kids want to go to college to play on scholarship then that is their pay and contractual commitment. If they want the money, then the NFL needs to finance and establish their own minor league program like MLB. The NFL has already priced out most fans with the cost to attend anyway,
I’m not sure you understand what that would do to the league.
Somewhat. But SMU isn’t historically irrelevant, and they have VERY wealthy, and motivated, boosters.
I have ZERO issue with paying through NIL (using corporate sponsors, or wealthy donors who have money to burn), or TV contract revenue. Let the players share. Super. "Fans" being asked to pay players is totally ASS backwards, as the fans are the only ones in this silly equation who get NO financial benefit from this mess. The Media, the schools and the players will ALL make millions, and yet some people think this "new money" should come from the fans! Absolutely ridiculous....
Never been a cap on NIL in pro sports.
Oregon is far from a blue blood. It also should bother you. We'd become a bottom feeder.
He lives in reality. Tell us all your experience in attending the last NC game Iowa was in?
It’s basically already happening right in front of you. There’s 3-4 teams at the top and honestly the rest are just taking money.
Those top teams don't want to be in a Super Conference. They want the cupcakes on their schedule to pump up their wins. They don't want to play teams equal to them week in week out. I want to see them get rid of the conference championships. They are useless games now.
The SEC is already at paeudo super conference. And it’s a huge concern for them. They cannibalized each other this year and as a result put a lot their teams at risk of missing the playoffs. Which is silly. There are 6 SEC teams at least who have better resumes than Indiana. 3 losses in the SEC isn’t in anyway a disqualifier. In fact it will be the norm. It’s a much deeper league that the Big 10.
Never been a situation like the one we're seeing now. Amateur athletes mixing with paid athletes is a different course entirely. Economics never change though.
That may be true, but I still want to see my Hawkeyes playing marquee programs in packed, gigantic stadiums, as well as in Kinnick. Conference championships were going to be few and far between even before this new expansion. CFP appearances may have actually become more realistic. I guess I really prefer the situation Iowa is in compared to Iowa State, despite ISU’s chance of winning a conference championship being much better. I think Iowa’s status in college football relevance is also more stable, although not certain. A Big 12 championship is already only 1/2 step ahead of a MAC championship.
Bullshit. Propaganda has worked quite well on you.
if you think Iowa football can compete for championships (conference or otherwise) with no changes to the current system, you're in for a rude awakening. What we have now is the reasonable expectation for the program.
Ur full of sh*t. According to ESPN’s strength of record, Georgia and Texas are the only SEC teams that would be 10-1 or better with Indiana’s schedule.
It’s not propaganda. Gotta be honest about your own conference. Being delusional only digs the hole deeper. Who has confidence that Iowa who could finish as high as 4th in BIG10 would beat Ole Miss, Bama, Texas AM, South Carolina? Forget about teams below Iowa/Illnois beating those teams.
Let’s see how the Bigten does in their bowl games against the SEC and others. Currently, they are only favored to win one game ( Nebraska).
Since 1962, Iowa has beaten Ohio State five times. Unless Iowa is going to start losing to them twice a year, I feel not much is changing.
It absolutely is propaganda and you have fallen for it completely. Iowa is a Top half of the Big Ten kind of team under Kirk. Kirk is 6-7 against the SEC in bowl games most of which take place in the SEC geographic footprint. None of those wins or losses happened in Kinnick. You really think the sec would come to kinnick stadium and roll us? Zero chance that happens. Nebraska and Penn State thought they would do that to our conference and how did that work out. Tennessee fans had all kinds of plans after winning at Ohio State. How did that work out?
^^^ This is still a truism about Iowa football. Prior to Kirk, who has really watered down the non-conf schedule, and going back many decades Iowa played the top teams around the country, Notre Dame, Syracuse, UCLA, USC, and many Pac-8/10 teams, Big 8 teams like Nebraska, and teams like Tenn, N Car St, Pitt and that made watching and listening to Iowa football great because they also had big rivalries of long standing in the Big 10.
Kirk played three of those teams you mentioned in noncon regular season games, and was one of the very few B1G to actually play two noncons against major conference teams somewhat regularly.
Yes, I mentioned that Kirk has gone with the softer nonconf schedule the last 10 or so years. And granted the 9th conf game did that.
Maybe you weren’t complaining, but if so, what do you expect them to do? They are essentially locked into ISU every year. (Yes, I want to play someone else too.)
