WHERE IS COLLEGE ATHLETICS HEADED?

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Let me preface this with the fact I have enjoyed college athletics for a long time. In the recent past the impact of $ has increasingly changed the nature of College athletics. Of course the salaries of coaches reaching millions of dollars speaks to the culture of the game and the competition to be the best. That takes a bunch of money. But very recently a couple of new developments could end up changing the course of college athletics
First the Portal: It is becoming as big as the recruiting process itself. Will it favor the biggies? Will it make non power conferences a training grounds for the Power 5? How will it impact mid majors like Iowa?
Player Pay: Now we know why Jordon came back to launch his clothing line? Well maybe not but clearly access to the ability to make money for College players is going to have a huge impact. Lot easier to cash in at Notre Dame or Alabama than it will be at Iowa! Not only will be a factor in recruiting but enhance the use of the Portal for Players to move to programs with more selling power
Next several years may be interesting
 
Let me preface this with the fact I have enjoyed college athletics for a long time. In the recent past the impact of $ has increasingly changed the nature of College athletics. Of course the salaries of coaches reaching millions of dollars speaks to the culture of the game and the competition to be the best. That takes a bunch of money. But very recently a couple of new developments could end up changing the course of college athletics
First the Portal: It is becoming as big as the recruiting process itself. Will it favor the biggies? Will it make non power conferences a training grounds for the Power 5? How will it impact mid majors like Iowa?
Player Pay: Now we know why Jordon came back to launch his clothing line? Well maybe not but clearly access to the ability to make money for College players is going to have a huge impact. Lot easier to cash in at Notre Dame or Alabama than it will be at Iowa! Not only will be a factor in recruiting but enhance the use of the Portal for Players to move to programs with more selling power
Next several years may be interesting
There are only so many slots for players. The playoffs are already about Clemson, OSU, Alabama and someone else. The final 4 won't change much. BB will have better players go pro to more opportunities. The Blue bloods are already struggling for a lot of reasons including Adidas.

Sports are already in decline and don't mean much to younger people.
 
The G5 is going to get gutted in football. No way a guy like Roethlisberger or Jordan Lynch hangs around in the MAC when big time programs come calling. Basketball will be similar. If there becomes an expectation of a school funded work study or whatever as a result of the SCOTUS case, you could see a lot of programs in the G5 tank or move down to D-IAA. You'll see the marginal P5 teams cut pretty much everything other than football and basketball and keep the corresponding number of women's scholarships. Hopefully, the women's sports become more progressive and more accepting of transgender athletes.
 
There are only so many slots for players
This. It isn't like Clemson and Alabama are going to all of a sudden get the top 20 WRs in the country at once, nor is the "highest paying" school going to get every 4 and 5 star.

It may cost more money to get these players and schools in money trouble might struggle, but you're not going to see the balance of P5 tip much more than it already has.
 
You'll see the marginal P5 teams cut pretty much everything other than football and basketball and keep the corresponding number of women's scholarships.
This is the way it should be, tbh. Any sport not breaking even with revenue should be club level. That's the original intent of collegiate sports anyway.

Iowa should have football, basketball, wrestling, women's basketball (been some marginal success there), and the remainder going to whatever womens sport(s) would fill out the rest of the scholarships.

edit: I’ll add to that, donations to a particular sport should be considered in the revenue. If someone wants to inject enough money to keep the tennis team playing with a Rolex sponsorship so be it. Just don’t take money from the revenue programs.
 
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This. It isn't like Clemson and Alabama are going to all of a sudden get the top 20 WRs in the country at once, nor is the "highest paying" school going to get every 4 and 5 star.

It may cost more money to get these players and schools in money trouble might struggle, but you're not going to see the balance of P5 tip much more than it already has.

Meh, Clemson is probably gonna be doomed under the new structure. The fan base ain't big enough or rich enough. It won't be an overnight shift, but within 3 or 4 recruiting cycles their ability to consistently land QBs the caliber of DeShaun Watson and Trevor Lawrence and WRs the caliber of Deandre Hopkins, Tee Higgins, Justyn Ross, etc. is going to be materially impaired as nearby schools with way wealthier fanbases, like Georgia and Tennessee, turn up the grease level.
 
Meh, Clemson is probably gonna be doomed under the new structure. The fan base ain't big enough or rich enough. It won't be an overnight shift, but within 3 or 4 recruiting cycles their ability to consistently land QBs the caliber of DeShaun Watson and Trevor Lawrence and WRs the caliber of Deandre Hopkins, Tee Higgins, Justyn Ross, etc. is going to be materially impaired as nearby schools with way wealthier fanbases, like Georgia and Tennessee, turn up the grease level.
My main point was that all the talent isn’t going to just pool in a few schools all of a sudden after NIL. The best talent will, but that already happens.
 
Let me preface this with the fact I have enjoyed college athletics for a long time. In the recent past the impact of $ has increasingly changed the nature of College athletics. Of course the salaries of coaches reaching millions of dollars speaks to the culture of the game and the competition to be the best. That takes a bunch of money. But very recently a couple of new developments could end up changing the course of college athletics
First the Portal: It is becoming as big as the recruiting process itself. Will it favor the biggies? Will it make non power conferences a training grounds for the Power 5? How will it impact mid majors like Iowa?
Player Pay: Now we know why Jordon came back to launch his clothing line? Well maybe not but clearly access to the ability to make money for College players is going to have a huge impact. Lot easier to cash in at Notre Dame or Alabama than it will be at Iowa! Not only will be a factor in recruiting but enhance the use of the Portal for Players to move to programs with more selling power
Next several years may be interesting

It's definitely sad that amateur sports have disappeared but it was completely inevitable. Even AAU and youth sports now is a big money grab. People are making $$$$$ of the backs of young kids. Youth baseball now has all these multi-million dollar sport venues with artificial turf (two locals are Bett Plex and Prospect Park). The Bett Plex can literally have 4-5 sport tourneys going on in a single weekend. (Baseball - Softball - Basketball - Soccer, etc.). Every spectator is charged $7 (day) or $12 (weekend) to pay for it all.

Add into that the training facilities and what parents spend for private lessons to pay for their dream of having their kid play professional. It's BIG BUSINESS!!

Parent's are out of control paying for this shit. I'm luckily on our very last year of youth sports. It just gets worse every year. We started our boys on club/travel ball at 9U. They now have 6U teams or even younger. What damn parent needs to have their 6 yr old on a travel team and pay $$$$. Krist, play city ball league for a few years. Then they go to their 6 year old's game and yell at the umpire on balls and strikes. They get on the coaches for how they are playing players at 6-8 years of age. These parents are nuts. Then they'll truck that 8yr old to private pitching lessons and spend $$$$$. It is absolutely a money grab and racket.
 
Parents are using money as political control for their child. Not a parent but lookat the Hawk punting game a couple years ago. Somehow CJ s parents used political control as well.

Its engrained in society which includes business. Look at pharma companies and the novavaccine. Simple cheap few side effects strong results...will likely never be approved for US to protect investments of more sophisticated vaccines. Look at the results of Ivermectin which most have never heard from which has good preventative and symptom reduction power.

Who cares about the Olympics anymore. I root for weaker teams in bb.

MLB no longer has the best athletes. Poorer kids in this country have no chance. That shows in the decline in defense where lesser athletes bulk up to hit .230 and pop 25 balls over the fence.
 

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