Robert Wilson said:
Bearknuckle said:
Robert Wilson said:
Bearknuckle said:
Bruisers Burner Phone said:
boognish_bear said:
Bruisers Burner Phone said:
My least favorite thing about the NFL is free agency, but the only alternative to free agency is to let the owners control the market. So I decided to be OK with it so long as it had some kind of boundaries. At least you could get behind some players, and "franchise" others. There was some kind of plan to try to maintain a semblance of a "team."
What's going on in College athletics now is just stupid and makes it very hard to be a fan.
It's beyond dumb. As a big college football fan it's so damn disappointing what's become of the game.
Unfortunately....revenue and ratings continue to go up... so I don't really see any incentive for them to fix the issues.
What is becoming farcical is its connection to institutions of higher education. At this point, it is a historical anomaly, an anachronism.
maybe treat college sports like kind of like the GI Bill - you play full time, but earn a year's tuition for each season you play for that school.
Interesting thought experiment.
Can you transfer it to your kids or a family member - say sibling or cousin or niece/nephew? (I kinda like that idea)
Or just go sell it on the open market to whoever can get into the school? (that one is probably a bit much)
i guess it would probably be modeled on tuition exchange...for example, USC is one of Baylor's TE partners, but you only get the cost of Baylor's tuition, so vs USC's out-of-state tuition, Baylor's rate only pays for like 65% of the cost or whatever the numbers are...
Whatever entity ends up overseeing an eventual CBA could hold something like an escrow account that players build up over their 'college' career that they can then apply to whatever school they want. Allowing a player to transfer it to family member/dependent seems like it would sweeten the deal for the players.
I like the idea of it just being Baylor tuition. You can go to Baylor for a year. Or your child can, or your sibling, cousin, nephew, etc. That increases the tie between the school/fanbase and the player.
I'll go ahead and say the quiet part out loud. Some of these athletes don't care about getting a 4 year degree, and for some of them it's not even a good fit. But they may have a family member that would be a great fit but for whom college feels unreachable until they get a gift like that.
I can see College Gameday running a special on how some football player's sister became the first person in her family to go to college and has a 4.0 in Biology on her way to being a doctor thanks to the tuition remission that her brother earned on his way to the NFL.
We're thinking exactly the same way on the transferability of the benefit from the player to another recipient.
As for the other side of things, I think it might have to follow the TE model and add the value of their school's tuition that season to their account, but they'd be able to use that account at any school that will admit them.
I say that because I believe that due to labor laws/regulations, and their histories of precedent regarding pro sports, players aren't going to lose the right to transfer during their 'college' careers, even if that process does finally get regulation it so desperately needs right now.
But honestly I think we're on to something here...
