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<blockquote data-quote="JorgeJonas" data-source="post: 651501" data-attributes="member: 2171"><p>I think we’re talking past each other. You’re concerned with the overall competitiveness of the sport, and I’m concerned about the injustice (to me, at least) of artificial restrictions on compensation. I can’t even reach your issue because I view mine as foundational, and in the absence of a just relationship between player and school, I don’t care about competitiveness. </p><p></p><p>To your point, though, I think the sport is already dominated by an oligopoly. Check me on this, but I think there have only been 12 teams to win a national championship since the introduction of the BCS. I guess every now and then someone breaks through, but it’s essentially the same eight to twelve teams every season that have a shot at the big prize. </p><p></p><p>Given the current environment of the sport, I tend to think payments to players might actually break that logjam, because the one thing that’s finite in all of this is playing time, and it’s the thing that’s most valuable to the players. A school with lesser players has more playing time available, and the marginal value of one or two elite players to the lesser school is greater than that of the larger one. Because the smaller program can capture greater marginal return from that player (and because he gets more playing time, he is also satisfied), it stands to reason that the smaller programs can make up ground against a heavyweight. There are only 60:00 and 22 positions in a game, after all.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="JorgeJonas, post: 651501, member: 2171"] I think we’re talking past each other. You’re concerned with the overall competitiveness of the sport, and I’m concerned about the injustice (to me, at least) of artificial restrictions on compensation. I can’t even reach your issue because I view mine as foundational, and in the absence of a just relationship between player and school, I don’t care about competitiveness. To your point, though, I think the sport is already dominated by an oligopoly. Check me on this, but I think there have only been 12 teams to win a national championship since the introduction of the BCS. I guess every now and then someone breaks through, but it’s essentially the same eight to twelve teams every season that have a shot at the big prize. Given the current environment of the sport, I tend to think payments to players might actually break that logjam, because the one thing that’s finite in all of this is playing time, and it’s the thing that’s most valuable to the players. A school with lesser players has more playing time available, and the marginal value of one or two elite players to the lesser school is greater than that of the larger one. Because the smaller program can capture greater marginal return from that player (and because he gets more playing time, he is also satisfied), it stands to reason that the smaller programs can make up ground against a heavyweight. There are only 60:00 and 22 positions in a game, after all. [/QUOTE]
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