are two things they could change, the game is going to lose a lot of fans, and it already is losing them. Expect it to get worse if they don't try to create a more equal playing field for teams to compete. I am not a big NFL fan, but at least their leaders get how long term it is bad for the game to have same champions every year. Markets are just going to tune out of college football and find other things to spend their time and money. That's exactly what happened to NASCAR, and it doesn't take a rocket scientist to see that it is happening in college football. Especially with the younger generations.

and limiting the amount of NIL. That’s where I would start.

Stech, as for limiting the size of staff, it might be possible. Paying players as employees will have numbers set by bargaining with players unions. But as to limiting NIL and coaching salaries, the courts won’t allow it. The lawsuits are likely already written and waiting for the University’s name to be typed into the space designated for “Defendant.” There are going to be some “corrections” to the system in the coming years: The transfer portal will cool down when these players are required to sign employment contracts. NIL sponsors will become more cautious and conservative when a few of their 5 star “sure things” pull up lame and fall into obscurity. (New field of business insurance.) We really don’t know what the NIL arena will look like, even next year. There needs to be a substantial oversight army and painful penalties for crimi-NILs.

When it was introduced, NIL was supposed to be an avenue where players could be compensated for their name and likeness. What happened is all of the ugly under the table money was brought to the surface, and players are being paid far more than the signers expected. But if you redefine NIL, those under the table payouts will go back under the table, so there's no clear answer.

So if they are legal in Pro Sports, why not something similar for College Sports?

to keep the Yankees from buying all the talent and killing the sport. Other pro sports got similar exemptions along the way. That kind of arrangement could be permitted in NCAA sports when it comes to schools paying the players under collective bargaining. But "NIL" is different. It got its name because "name, image, likeness" was the subject of the court cases that outlawed players identity being used in video games without compensating the players. In the big picture it means that college athletes cannot legally be restricted from earning in any legal way. Just as pro athletes can earn money for public appearances, advertising or whatever, restricting college athletes from earning money loke that was always illegal; it just took lawsuits to prove it. Now we regard it as a "new law" called NIL, but schools were simply told by the courts to backoff.

The only way around them is a collective bargaining agreement, so all college athletes would have to join a college athletes union. Many states forbid government employees from joining unions, and since most of D1 schools are public entities, their athletes would be barred from joining the union. Most of those states are ones that have the ACC, SEC, and Big XII schools, while some states that would allow union state employees would be the PAC and B1G schools. Private school athletes would be able to join the union.

There aren't 12 that can win it. 8 is pushing it. But they want us to watch blowout games I guess. This year the Semifinals were competitive, but the final was a blowout. Not sure what happened there. I guess if you give the top 4 byes, then the other 8 might have some competitive games the first weekend. Makes me long for the Bowl Games again. We're not going to have parity with this NIL thing and no limitations. I saw a tweet earlier from the Pittsburgh coach saying that 2 schools were trying to entice the UNC quarterback Blake May with $1 million offers. With this kind of stuff, it will be wild west. SEC will dominate that especially with Texas and Texas A&M in there.

it is tearing my heart out to see the way things are going. I likely will not pay much attention to what is going on nationally and only care what happens in the ACC. Even if lightening were to strike and VT ended up in the SEC or BIG, I think the chances of being relevant nationwide like we were from 2000 to 2010 are pretty slim.

really don’t care about college football, except in the SEC areas. Even then, there are plenty of reports of students at Alabama and other SEC schools leaving the games early or not showing up at all. That will eventually come back to haunt you.