The End of College Sports As We Know It

[Techster]

Well, the day we all said was coming is finally here. What side of the fence will GT end up on?

 

[Techster]

 

[wesgt123]

Is this where the blue chippers have their own league?

 

[buzzn3]

Their own league where any notion of academics goes to die.

 

[roadkill]

Their own league where any notion of academics goes to die.

"...any level of enhanced educational benefits they deem appropriate." "School" for S-As is already a joke at many colleges - this just does away with any semblance of academic progress requirements.

 

[AUFC]

I will be in Bobby Dodd Stadium whether we're playing Amherst or Auburn. I will continue to follow whatever subdivision Georgia Tech is in.

 

[stinger78]

Thank you, Jesus! Please let this happen next year, and please give GA Tech administrators the sense to let these morons go and get back to college football.

 

[LargeFO]

I'm ready. Put us in the one that actually still cares about academics some.

 

[ChicagobasedJacket]

Well, the day we all said was coming is finally here. What side of the fence will GT end up on?

It’s time. Either we decide to continue competing or we essentially drop down. I tend to think an option that’s divorced from academics for the revenue generating sports might be the best of both worlds for a school like GT.

 

[Jacket05]

It’s time. Either we decide to continue competing or we essentially drop down. I tend to think an option that’s divorced from academics for the revenue generating sports might be the best of both worlds for a school like GT.

That's just minor leagues. If the sport is supposed to be separated from the academics, then there's no reason to associate it with the school anymore.

 

[stinger78]

There's 32 NFL teams. How about those colleges that decide to follow this model work out deals with NFL teams to sponsor those programs as a college-based minor league system.

The rest of college football programs can then go about playing the sport as it is supposed to be played. The players make the choice where to play and if they choose college football, then their NIL/transfer opportunities are limited, and they have assumed any "risk" associated with that.

 

[Root4GT]

If GT drops down in football we should demolish BDS and build a nice High School Stadium. Won’t need anything bigger. That move likely kills off most other GT sports. But by God we are principled.

 

[stinger78]

The Prophet of Doom speaks again!

 

[wvGT11]

I really hope with all.of this , schools start requiring personal finance courses for these kids and the very least

 

[bigrabbit]

Maybe someone following this more closely can comment on something I read about this new classification requiring matching funds also for women’s sports?

If they’re going to do this, I hope it’s all the way - blow it out, make it so absurd that it has to fail and we won’t be tempted to go along.

Ironically, it’s being discussed as haves/have-nots when it’s often really the opposite in terms of endowment resources. It’s 110% about priorities. Bama and uga are flat broke compared to Stanford and Duke (and GT really, looking at endowments and research revenue).

 

[tmhunter52]

Well, that will certainly kill the ACC and the GOR that has kept schools like FSU and Clemson hanging around and it will lead to a brand new round of conference realignments as schools make their pro or amateur determinations.

 

[1979jacket]

Maybe someone following this more closely can comment on something I read about this new classification requiring matching funds also for women’s sports?

If they’re going to do this, I hope it’s all the way - blow it out, make it so absurd that it has to fail and we won’t be tempted to go along.

Ironically, it’s being discussed as haves/have-nots when it’s often really the opposite in terms of endowment resources. It’s 110% about priorities. Bama and uga are flat broke compared to Stanford and Duke (and GT really, looking at endowments and research revenue).

You are right on current endowment sizes but if these football schools realize roll call dollars are going for football and not research, every trailer park in alabama will be funding roll call - and there are a lot of trailer parks in alabama. At Stanford and Duke, I don't think roll call adminstrators will be for using every dollar going to football and other sports per rules.

 

[Techster]

Well, that will certainly kill the ACC and the GOR that has kept schools like FSU and Clemson hanging around and it will lead to a brand new round of conference realignments as schools make their pro or amateur determinations.

That's what the P2 is set up for. I said it almost two years ago that realignment towards the mega deathstars of SEC and B1G were setting up something big, and possibly rival pro leagues (see the footprint and how the B1G is modeled).

Here we are today, and the landscape is moving closer to what I predicted.

 

[FlatsLander]

If this makes athletes able to be employees of the university, would that mean we have way more money to hire them since the Academic side has so much more money?

 

[JacketOff]

There's 32 NFL teams. How about those colleges that decide to follow this model work out deals with NFL teams to sponsor those programs as a college-based minor league system.

The rest of college football programs can then go about playing the sport as it is supposed to be played. The players make the choice where to play and if they choose college football, then their NIL/transfer opportunities are limited, and they have assumed any "risk" associated with that.

The NFL is, and never will be, interested in “sponsoring” a minor league. Their players get developed for free as is. They are not going to start spending hundreds of millions of dollars when they don’t have to