How will paying players directly affect the future of college football? | Joel Klatt Show

[@JoelKlattShow]

What do you think is the future of college football?

[@benavich8]

I think it will be a mixed bag...many will embrace the new system, old timers like me, not so much. The combination of NIL, transfer portal, payments and some of the wacky conference realignments? Meh....I see myself spending more weekend time with my grandkids or hiking in the beautiful NC mountains. To each, his own.

[@raniebranson8051]

It's gonna slowly become more and more like the NFL... Which I stopped watching due to it being such a terrible product. RIP College Football.

[@maxwllrobins7356]

Money money money money money

[@jbonez7456]

It just sucks for college football and all sports programs at universities. This will have a serious trickle down effect. Most university sport programs operate in the red. This will cripple them now for sure.

[@dentonyoung4314]

As someone who likes Olympic sports as much if not more than college football, I think the government may need to essentially finance them. (Stop giving corporate welfare to magacorporations who don't need it and that money alone will be 50 times the amount needed to fund all nonrevenue sports for every college from the Division I-A level down to Division III and NAIA.)

[@dentonyoung4314]

Rick Telander and Dr. Murray Sperber called this... in 1988 and 1991, respectively.

[@leewilson5382]

Daddy Klatt back with another great take

[@stevenfielke5755]

As an aussie, I dont understand the US system. Obviously there is the main ncaa team who are all recruited ballers, but if your just an average student at a D1 program, could you still play some form of casual football? Like is there an unfunded club program as well?

[@kevinbond8966]

Intermural

[@neneshubby]

There really is no such thing as casual football. The athletes being affected by all of this are the division l guys. But there are also division 2 college football players division 3, junior college and so forth. Many of those are non-scholarship guys that will probably be the closest thing you would get “casual football“. College football is the second most popular sport in America after the NFL and the fact that they refused to pay these guys anything for so long is just criminal.

[@stevenfielke5755]

@@neneshubby I meant more, non athletes. As in, say you enrol to the Business school at Oregon, as a regular fee paying student, is there a system to play some form of organised football still? (But not even at a walk on level). I read some distance running forums too, and it seems the same thing. Alot of people say 'I never played/raced again after HS' but they love the sport and seem to turn there backs on playing it as a teenager (Once the pro pathway is closed to them).

[@solidifyyourfaith9610]

Too much money without building the character to handle it will destroy many young men.

[@shopins2002]

Joel is missing the big picture here and he avoids it. So you get antitrust legislation and this and that. He is going down the path of a professional league which makes the sport a poor version of the NFL...sort of like the USFL but Joel thinks the fans will still flock to this league but there is a fly in the ointment in the logic. Lets say I am a USC or UCLA fan. These players aren't going to be students but employees. They aren't tied to USC or UCLA. You see the problem. They ARENT students. They are EMPLOYEES. It's a business. It's not a student athlete model. They are PROFESSIONAL players. So the point is why would a USC fan or UCLA fan be drawn to employees playing for their University? They aren't tied to the school in any meaningful manner. Why not just root for the Rams or Chargers? What's the appeal for a poor version of the NFL? So USC goes out and pays for 20 new players every year who may be playing for UCLA the next year? You say well they will come up with some collective bargaining agreement but again the appeal of the sport is professionel which is going to diminish it's popularity because...and wait for it because this is the key...it is played in the same season as the NFL. It's not about college...its about getting paid and getting to the NFL. You just watch. Whatever happens on the contract front...the sport will beccome less popular as fan attendance dwindles when people realize these guys don't represent the university. It will become more exaggerated than it is now and thus the breaking point will occur for support.

[@benavich8]

Good post....speaking of USC and UCLA...nothing against these schools...but now in the Big 10? Sorry...just too bizarre for me.

[@maxwllrobins7356]

Deal with it

[@benavich8]

@@maxwllrobins7356 With all due respect, some of us are choosing not to deal with it...but have at it!

[@COLORSHAIRSTUDIO1]

with over 150 combined years of NFL COACHING EXPERIENCE, I do think it’s logical to say that COLORADO can be called “ NFL U” Just saying!!

[@joshuagarner1654]

What did they hire all the browns failed coaches

[@wordy4908]

It’s now all about the money and a bit complicated but separately run booster NIL collectives are the simplest way to proceed so University administrations won’t be sued for resulting changes and diminished ancillary sports. All NIL contracted athletes would be paid and charged some form of tuition. Smaller, non-revenue producing sports will be decimated and Title IX will be history. (Of course Title IX advocates want the Universities to take responsibility for NIL so non-revenue producing sport athletes can sue the deep pocketed schools to pay them anyway.) Eventually, when folks come to believe current big tv money university sports have everything to do with monied professional athletes entertaining masses via tv and little to do with universities and education, the big revenue college sports will diminish into minor leagues for pro teams. Perhaps then university students would participate in and cheer on club or intramural sports. Let’s watch the women’s soccer club scrimmage the men’s club then invite our roommates to have a picnic and watch the homeless Frisbee Football club take on the Computer Science Club this Saturday!

[@larry192]

I’m just sick of the thought that athletes are going to be demanding more money for not even 4 years of being at a college. Meanwhile, hundreds of thousands of college students who go to college to ACTUALLY get a degree won’t see a dime of these millions in revenue. And by that, I mean things that would improve their overall lifestyle experience at that particular university/college.

[@qwerty112311]

Why should normal students get a dime of revenue from the athletic department?

[@DocNinini]

And whose fault is that

[@larry192]

@@qwerty112311 I’m not saying normal students should be getting money directly. What I’m saying is why can’t they get some common benefit out of all of this generated revenue from their respective university/college budget? I.e old facilities built circa 1960’s or older brought up to a somewhat more modern standard Ofc I’m more or less just making a rant about the budgets set by university administrations, but still. It’s like regular students are set almost 20+ years behind some of these student athletes who get to live in 2024 and not 2004.

[@maxwllrobins7356]

Deal with it

[@joshuagarner1654]

​​@larry192 your socialism is showing. But just to inform you the money generate by football allows the women's gymnastics team to be a thing. Also the vast majority of universities academic budget is much higher than the athletic