Josh Pate On Chip Kelly's Ideas For Overhauling College Football (Late Kick Cut)

The 2023 College Football regular season has come to an end, but on Late Kick Live Ep 466 Josh Pate responded to Chip Kelly offering several ideas for where he thinks the future of the sport should go. What would happen if football was separated from the rest of the sports? Could we eventually see a College Football commissioner? Let us know what you think in the comments below and be sure to SUBSCRIBE to the channel and CLICK THE BELL for notifications as we bring you multiple live shows per week!
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[@zacheryhardie9313]

This makes me miss Mike Leach. I’d love to hear what he has to say about all of this.

[@miketemple7686]

He’d bring in online dating and how all this relates to UFO’s 🛸 😂. I miss him too.

[@MikeHawkbaby]

*Instead of playing hard and wanting to get a first down you sit under a shade tree and eat fish sandwich and drink a lemonade with your fat little girlfriend* -Mike Leach

[@CascadiaNow69]

@@miketemple7686you beat me to it

[@ericlofroos2405]

Nailed it! When it comes to College Football there are NO Adults in the room. No rules, no structure, and no direction.

[@RoadTo19]

Unfortunately, only corporations and money.

[@hackermusic3355]

It shouldn't have been hard to see that the combo of NIL and transfer portal would turn into the wild wild west. Managing the roster as a coach right now would be a nightmare.

[@RoadTo19]

While preparing for a bowl game, unsure of which players will and will not be playing.

[@walterrobinson1988]

it wasn't hard to see, there were a lot of us saying this was going to happen, but the idealists didn't want to hear it.

[@puffdutchtwo]

Unless Saban or Lanning lucky for me I ❤ 🦆

[@Sparty31]

Josh Pate for College Football Commissioner!

[@dentonyoung4314]

Dr. Murray Sperber called all this... in 1991, in his book "College Sports Inc." Everything he wrote back then is coming true. Rick Telander's 1988 book "The Hundred Yard Lie" was also prophetic.

[@AARon-fe1mo]

The NCAA basically gave college athletes more power than their coaches and pro athletes. They can sit whenever they want, transfer whenever they want, take as much money as they want, and cripple a teams ability to build up depth and experience.

[@thethinkingmansgame5050]

Expect for very few teams... not many leaving texas.. ok.. mich..osu.. Washington..alabama... Georgia.. ok Georgia toom a hit this year... so those teams will retain people for 2 to 3 year to build a great program... especially alabama.. plenty want to go there before.. now... they will go to get paid and win national championships.. most guys will crumble or destroy their teams leaving

[@danielrn133]

Oh..it's the NCAAs fault. People bitched non STOP about the NCAA so everyone gets what they wanted then they blame,,,the NCAA. Truly can't make this crap up. If I was a player and one school offered me 200K and another 300K it wouldn't even take 5 seconds to decide. Just like anyone else with a brain.

[@AARon-fe1mo]

@@danielrn133 the problem is the school offering kids money. That I know of, nobody was advocating for schools to have groups pay players millions upon millions of dollars to attract them to their program. But everyone agreed they should be able to be compensated by other means like signing autographs, advertising deals, social media, etc. Nobody was against giving the players a bit more power and freedom but instead the NCAA gave them all the power and all the freedom with no strings attached.

[@brookico]

⁠@@AARon-fe1mo​​⁠​⁠Exactly I’m all for these kids getting paid especially since they might get hurt and end their career it gives them a cushion. Then some people were always against players getting paid and said they get their schooling free and that should be enough BUT what most people agree on is there should have been some stipulations because the NCAA has made it where there are hardly any and the athletes have complete power. It’s a mess..

[@stinkasscat]

​​@@brookicoI don't completely agree with that "cushion", that's what they are there getting an education for. That cushion sounds to me like a retirement plan. Aside from that, I totally agree with you. I think they should get paid, but you gotta have some structure. 👍👍👍

[@correyretzloff6421]

I nominate Chip Kelly to be the first commissioner of college football.

[@douglaschase8475]

After @joshpate retires!

[@YoshiYosheda]

Wow I thought you were going to say coach of the year. 😅😅😅

[@shaneomack5018]

Chip has some good points but over all the guy is pos

[@rifleman1002]

That would be a hoot

[@w.jasonspangler2952]

College Football fans severely overestimate how many people out there still "love" college football..

[@law3344]

lol seriously…especially with this dynamic now

[@andyeighttre]

For my Oregon State Beavers, I love this. They could play MWC and or Big 12 in football. MWC is basketball, and maybe mix in wcc. Then play whatever conference has the best baseball schools on the westcoast.

[@gbear34]

I think no matter what happens from here on out there will be severe, unintended consequences for most of the teams in college football.

[@dr.markevers8331]

Chip Kelly’s/Josh’s idea isn’t too far fetched. Schools already pay students as part-time employees all over campus. Grad students work as TAs/RAs, undergrads work in hospitality and other departments. A lot of PhD students get scholarships money and work part-time as grad assistants, so the model is there (And schools do compete against each other for grad students). Just apply it to athletes.

[@motjinx]

If we put Nick Saban, Frank Beamer, and Chip Kelly in a room and told them to fix fbs football I bet they’d give us something a hell of a lot better than what we have right now.

[@ericwalters3426]

Thanks for actually talking about this. The more people talk about these ideas and just get different ideas out there into the consciousness of the people. College football is like the old west.

[@DorktimeBwuds]

Maybe we could’ve been headed toward the direction of a commissioner or something when The Alliance was formed… Then the B1G said, “Nah! Screw you guys! We’ll just take your most valuable brands!”

[@chucky0034]

This is the best take in years 9n this topic and where we are headed.

[@Southprong59]

Josh you have my vote for college football commissioner . . .

[@k.c.gillespie1452]

If a college agrees to pay their scholarship players $50 thousand a year that makes it more like the NFL. if that happens then those players need to sign at least a 3 year contract. No more jumping in the portal just because!

[@dentonyoung4314]

Rick Telander had a similar proposal... in 1988, in his book "The Hundred Yard Lie".

[@danielrn133]

Good luck with that. And it isn't "just because". If one school would pay someone 200K and another 300K the person would be an idiot to not enter the portal. Just like anyone else working would take the same job that offered 100K more a year.

[@BlountForce]

3 year contracts would be wise

[@dentonyoung4314]

@@danielrn133 If everything is collectively bargained, one team won't be able to offer 100k more than another team. Salaries will be fixed for all.

[@captchompers6920]

These arent contracts thought, it’s a scholarship which is absolutely meaningless when you can just move and go else where. Do be a coconut head. Anybody will take more Money no matter the situation.

[@veryinteresting591]

1. Pay the athletes (proportionately to the sport). 2. Allow one transfer per athlete, no restrictions, no waiting period. This keeps a balance of power. Coaches shouldn’t have all the power. No 2nd, 3rd transfers. 3. College administrators are intentionally delaying the inevitable. No wonder, as paying players will come straight out of University coffers.

[@kennyfuqua2518]

Dabo spoke on this years ago and was jumped on by every talking head out there. The problems are bad and financially it can not continue. One can not expect for the "collectives" to continue paying this money....That well will run dry soon. The portal and kids jumping teams and teams approaching kids on other teams to get them to switch over is going to cause fans to find something else to do. It needs to be fixed and quickly.

[@rifleman1002]

To paraphrase Chip Kelly, "Sooner or later, a player is going to enter the Transfer Portal at halftime"

[@soundproof75]

I liked what he proposed at a conference or team level. I am curious to see how the pay to players would bread down. Would the pay be based on the player's position, amount of time played, star ranking, evenly distributed across the team with no respect to position or playing time? There are a lot of ways to approach it but I have never seen a proposal at that level of detail.

[@hallowrant8091]

If I am the non-Big 10/SEC schools, I band together immediately and do this. Separate your other sports from football and appoint a commissioner. If you have to do a separate thing with a separate season and separate championship...id do it

[@tremoore61]

100% AGREE!

[@leroyburns9561]

Completely agree

[@SaskatchewanICE]

Sir, I never knew your name before this whole Chip Kelly thing, and idk how long you’ve been doing this, but . . . I wish I would’ve found out about you a long time ago. Cuz you’re good. You’ve earned yourself another subscriber👌

[@netmeg]

You'd probably make a pretty good CFB Commissioner. I think I would too. Sadly, I've never actually played except with the boys in my neighborhood, but I did attend every single home game in my home town from 1969 through 2009 (we had to give up our seats in 2009 because my mother - who attended every home game from 1951 through 2009 including through four pregnancies) could no longer navigate the stairs at the stadium. Unfortunately, I'd probably be disqualified because the home town is Ann Arbor and the team is Michigan. But it's fun to think about. (I and 92yr old mom are still super fans. College Football before all.)

[@mdhj67]

Almost fell out of my chair when Josh mentioned "folks that love to hear themselves talk".

[@drewwilson6639]

It's his job

[@danos4163]

I mean Harbaugh has mentioned revenue sharing with players in pretty much every press conference or interview I have seen lately, this is not new. Calling this “Chip Kelly’s lead” is just a distortion of the facts

[@tremoore61]

Is that all he talked about in this video? So you went out your way to be a victim today? Or to make Harbaugh the victim? People these days... did you even watch the video in its entirety? How about start the video at the 12:50 mark. Or are you so sensitive that the title of this video alone triggered you? Without even looking into yourself.

[@Crankinstien]

Absolutely love this! Do it tomorrow

[@stinkasscat]

Josh speaking the truth. There was a time when I didn't know much about the man, but after the past year of paying closer attention to what he discusses, I'm going to go ahead and put my vote in for the commish. 👍👍👍

[@txsportsfreak02]

Every big 10 coach needs to get together during media days next year and say this needs to get done and get done quickly.

[@johnewing3295]

Good points. Good Show. Josh, you are rising in my algorithm ! That's not a double-entendre, so don't get too excited.

[@BasedAnalyst]

Would be an amazing change. Making the players "employees" with a set salary and NIL is something that themselves or their "agents" could seek would be better than a collective fund being used to persuade players to come to a school. I think if we can get the governance and forcing players to play in their bowl is something that would bring value and tradition back to bowl games that makes them feel a lot better to watch.

[@TommyTizzy]

I think the transfer portal should be the player has to sit out a year - unless the university gives the player a release. For example, if the player is a starter- the university should not release the player unless there are circumventing instances. So if a play leaves for more NIL (i.e poached) - let them sit out a year.

[@mhurricane266]

So....how it was..

[@jalencampbell718]

​@@mhurricane266that's not how it is, players don't have to sit a year after transferring like they use to which is why everybody and tgey momma transfers now

[@rah5931]

I’d say first transfer no problem. Second third fourth (fifth?) you gotta sit one full year.

[@mhurricane266]

@@jalencampbell718 i didn’t say how it is, I said how it WAS.

[@mhurricane266]

@@rah5931 This is quite literally the answer. It’s a good middle ground. Kids should be able to transfer. 1 time is enough, it’s the repeated transfers that are the real problem. DJ Uiagalelei, felt like he needed to leave Clemson and that’s fine, use a transfer to Oregon St and now kicking rocks again. He now needs to sit out a year if he needs to leave. It makes these kids think about where they going the first time while still getting the ability to leave out one time if they feel the need. Upper class men pretty much won’t have a choice but to stay put.

[@angelsaulovelazquez3232]

I would think if everyone gets 50,000$ then under the table money will make a big comeback

[@fromthefuture9353]

JP, you need to be on every Saturday reporting from the TV booth. You are in the company of Gus Johnson and Joel Klatt. Your and JK are very informative as well as wise. Be safe.

[@kennc222003]

Love college football! Keep up the good work! College football is not perfect and needs some definite attention in a few areas. Yet its still some of the best entertainment you'll find! PATE FOR COMMISSIONER!

[@massivedynamic2339]

If they separate football from other sports, it would OFFICIALLY become semi-pro and would require collective bargaining.

[@AU9377]

That would also mean that it is not part of college athletics.

[@SnuffyOOO7]

The players do get paid, ITS CALLED A SCHOLARSHIP. They get paid by not having to pay to go to school.

[@gregsnelling6293]

If you're going to pay the players, then pull the scholarship money.

[@ragmanintx]

How much pizza money can you buy with your scholarship? Best to let the free market assess your value. Refusing to compensate these young men simply translates to some other folk benefitting from that labor. As someone who opposes indentured servitude I can't support this system. Cheers.

[@brucet66]

Jim Harbaugh did the same thing and folks were outraged. Its mind boggling the kids dont get paid in a billion dollar business

[@gstyles7759]

When does the commissioner campaign start

[@roadrade324]

Nailed it!!

[@JSavo_]

6:49 was a solid 7 Pate State Paper Pop. Thank you Josh.

[@pendleton123]

I love this guy

[@Alexander-fr1kk]

The players DO GET PAID!!! It’s a FREE college education with housing and everything associated with!!! Let them pay for the college admission and ALL associated fees!!!

[@Lachronix]

Would the revenue sharing of the conference media rights deals be divided between the sports that don’t make money as well? Or would football still pay for those sports to operate?

[@bernardsizemoreii6841]

That is a very good point and question.

[@stout8807]

How to fix the transfer portal, limit how many players each team can take, every player after that number has to sit out like the old rule. Make players have to think about it before transferring

[@rah5931]

I’d say first transfer is a freebie but all transfers after that require a one year sit out period.

[@js8281]

All independent for football is what I have been saying for forever

[@lostaggie66-canderson17]

The BEST BowlGames so far has been G5 Bowls like last night's TOASTERY BOWL: ODU(6-6) Ahead by 28-0 vs WKY Hilltoppers at Half. WKU Comes Back to Win In OT 35-38.

[@terencebaca1990]

By 2030, the 8 most powerful CFB bluebeloods will form an alliance. The 8 will rule over the rest in a 32 team Super League. The 8 will guarantee for themselves the highest annual TV revenue payout of $100M+. The 8 are Ohio State, Michigan, Penn State, USC, Notre Dame, Alabama, Texas, Georgia.

[@JohnSmith-ys4nl]

As far as paying all players a fixed salary, there's major problems with that, too: 1) Some players are worth much more than 50k. You must factor that in. The top QBs in the portal are asking several million right now and will likely get it. 2) Only a handful of schools are profitable as far as revenue generated. Most are in the red. How would those schools pay? 3) You forget Title IX. If you pay football players 50k, you must also pay women's lacrosse. If they now are forced to pay athletes in sports no one watches, what will happen is schools will simply begin just shutting down those non-revenue sports. (Hey, people asked for it to be pro, well this is what will happen in the real world).

[@andrewzimmerman6059]

The legalese for point 3 is easy; you have to make it based on revenue share. If a university signs a TV rights deal with Fox for football, that money goes to pay the football players. The TV rights deal for soccer or basketball are separate deals, and it becomes all about which sport brings in money. The players are then compensated in accordance with the revenue they bring the school. Sure, you have scholarships that must follow Title 9, but the differences in payments to athletes in different sports is the same reason why an adjunct professor’s salary is less than a tenure track professors salary. One provides more value to the school than the other and they are compensated accordingly.

[@williamgriffin1502]

What about all the other costs? How much do they spend per athlete now?

[@robertcouncil6172]

Player would be crazy to agree to ANY new restrictions!!!

[@Kyleterp1]

Need uniform scheduling, get rid of conference championship games, etc but there are still a ton of legal issues in terms of paying the players

[@raleighsanford5111]

Chip Kelly and Josh Pate make a lot of sense, but the problem is that we are not the consumers of CFB, Ford, Chevy, Budweiser, Buffalo Wild Wings, Coors Light, Old Spice, etc. are the consumers of CFB. We are the consumers of the products the actual CFB consumers make. The money Josh Pate is talking about comes from companies buying ad space on the networks, so they are the people who get want they want. They are the customer who is always right, not us.

[@user-hq4cr2uw3i]

Yes, please!!

[@JoRa-rb9kz]

College football's greatest strength is also it's weakness. Fans and administrators are more interested in what's best for their region, their university, than what's best for the sport as a whole. It's not an.accident the NFL.makes more money than any league on the planet. The decisions they made were what was best for the sport, not what's best for new york or dallas.

[@nathanforrester5140]

I think a lot of the coaches could come up with something. Sabin, Dabo, Chip. all those guys but it would take one of them leaving coaching and making it happen and that is a big ask.

[@freeheeler00]

Jim Harbaugh has been saying the exact same thing.

[@spencerlower2287]

I wish football had single sports conferences like college hockey

[@JohnSmith-ys4nl]

I think the NFL needs to step in and help out with this. CFB is their farm league and there would be no NFL without CFB. I can foresee a scenario where NFL franchises partner with college brands. Chargers with UCLA, Seahawks with Wash, Falcons with UGA, Cowboys with Okie State, Chiefs with Mizzou, Titans with UT, Browns with Ohio St, etc. One NFL franchise could partner with 2 or 3 schools if they want. Let the NFL buy a stake into the college brands and let them help organize a new college league with sane scheduling and a fair play-off. They have the expertise to do it, much more than guys with PhD's in education.

[@andyeighttre]

This is a solid idea*

[@5thwatchcaptain6]

In your example are they only paying football? Or is that every scholarship athletic student or just every scholarship a d1 school gives out?

[@Southprong59]

Most coaches are afraid to take a stand for fear of loosing recruits; the NCAA is useless; and the left side of the isle in congress is afraid of disenfranchising their constituency . . . someone needs to stand up before the sport is ruined.

[@504DamnSkippy]

The only Coach that can rally significant change to calendars is Coach Saban. Period. However, he will/is just using it to his advantage as always! Makes perfect since to separate football from othe sports in pac10/big10. However, since the addition of Texas A&M & Missouri to SEC, the addition of Texas and OK makes travel/rivalries easier to translate to other sports.

[@GAB2020]

They should have a cap. Player get paid. Starter get pay $70,000; Bench player get paid $40,000. Walk on get $10,00 Player can gets NIL on top of their salary.

[@thaisilverback]

I was ridiculed 20 years ago when I proposed paying Freshmen $1000 per month and increasing that to $4000 per month for Seniors. I would have then added a $25 per play bonus for showing up on the field of play. With inflation those numbers would be higher today. Far superior to the current situation.

[@charlesronk2989]

The transfer portal has killed the walk on student athlete.

[@JesseEstes-bv8nc]

Schools don't get the nil. It is forbidden to pay a player to come to your school. Several schools openly are doing it.

[@jamesjohnson-en3cu]

My daughters were not athletically gifted, but they were academically gifted. Yet, even with scholarships and grants they emerged from a four year degree with about $40k of debt each to student loans. So forgive me if I get a little pissed when you casually and completely overlook the $80k plus education these athletes are given for playing. As if it has no value at all. I live for college football, but how about instead of paying the 3rd string long snapper $50k, (on top of the $80k scholarship), we use some of this obscene amount of $ to lower tuition for every student, instead of raising it every year? Roll Tide 🐘

[@dr.markevers8331]

If your daughters developed a patent that brought the Crimson Tide $50 million a year in revenue, I’m sure you’d still be cool with just a scholarship. “Look girls, your professor made $12 million this year while you got a $20,000 scholarship offer that patent. Good job!”

[@jamesjohnson-en3cu]

@@dr.markevers8331 If the University recruited her to a team of 2-300 people and provided the training, equipment, labs and materials and research funding, then I would accept that the product belonged to the University. That’s the way businesses operate. And if by ‘just a scholarship’ you mean her personal performance is televised to millions every Saturday while Danielson calls a play by play, and the film is sent to every giant tech CEO as a resumé, then yeah, that plus $20k would be cool.

[@brianbrooks5366]

Props to chip kelly for actually stating players should be paid. Only other coach that comes close is saban and he mostly just states at this point they should become an actual league

[@davidfloyd9134]

How does this affect the ACC & Big12? If each P4 school shared revenue I would support this. But they don’t. Also, why should the Big12 allow Big10 schools like Washington, Oregon, uSC & ucla play against Arizona(Big12).

[@RaySoCal]

Do revenue share and allow players to do endorsement deals like pros. Also, do one to two year scholarship deals, allowing players to test the market. Can’t allow universities and media surrogates to dictate terms to the athletes.

[@nele350c7]

I don't have a problem with these kids transferring once, but if a kid wants to transfer a second time, he should sit out a year. This will slow down these kids jumping into the portal just because they don't like it somewhere or lack of playing time. It's called competing.The best player will start!

[@charlestoddsullivanforpres6628]

I don't think any of this properly captures what's going on and what the effects will be if these plans come to fruition.

[@quiltednipples]

Teams won't stop using money in recruiting unless there's a punishment. Paying players a salary won't change that.

[@jasonwalters5478]

If Josh Pate was ncaa college football commissioner, we would go back to a 2 team playoff. No thank you!!!@ that would be a disaster.

[@buddycromer2142]

wait, one player on a SEC team made $800,000 this year. I have not seen him on one endorsement.

[@arozi1391]

2024 & 2024 have the 12 team playoff set, but after that who knows? My prediction is that the Big 10 and SEC gain more schools and consolidate the top tier of D1 football. They make an alliance with one another, and agree to leave the NCAA in football. They will add Florida State, Clemson, Miami, Notre Dame and likely some combination of North Carolina, Georgia Tech, Colorado, West Virginia, and potentially TCU, Virginia, Syracuse, Boston College, Utah, and basically at this point cherry pick who they want. So that each conference has 20-30 schools. Those two conferences then form divisions with some geographical sense, and have their own playoff (more than just a championship) for the conferences. And agree to play the two champions for what will be the new method of determining the national championship. The Big 12 with probably survive, and be the highest conference in the next tier. But those two conferences will then control the top tier of college football more directly. They will set their own rules for NIL and/or direct payment to players. As they won't be confined anymore by the NCAA anyway.

[@mooredw64]

You have to be careful treating any sport different. Title IX lawsuits will be rampant if there is a distinction made.

[@alphadragongamingFTW]

Not sure how Title IX would get involved. That deals with sex based discrimination. Having College football be it's own entity would not be sexually discriminating.

[@anythingthoughanythingthou2453]

@@alphadragongamingFTWyou’re in for a rude awakening then

[@alphadragongamingFTW]

@@anythingthoughanythingthou2453 LMAO, huh?

[@walterrobinson1988]

@@alphadragongamingFTW calling football it's own entity doesn't exempt it from Title IX. The reason colleges spend so much on women's sports that bring in no revenue to support themselves is because Title IX says if you make an opportunity / benefit available to a male student, the same type of opportunity / benefit needs to be available to female students. If male students are getting paid by the university, it's only a matter of time before a Title IX lawsuit says a more or less equal number of female athletes need to be getting that 50k as well.

[@Thibs1082]

Title IX is basically socialism on campus, every gets the same treatment, compensation, or opportunity no matter what value they bring.

[@89volvowithlazers]

The sport is broken on many levels and we are about to see how broken it is next fall. Florida St. Was a big sympton of the illness.

[@michaelbailey3259]

I saw Kelly's presser and for a hot minute, assumed it was AI. Obviously it wasn't and this all makes far too much sense to ever be done by level heads. Which is unfortunate because the status quo in CFB cannot be maintained for very much longer. Will there be issues to iron out as far as players transferring, how that affects their scholarship, how NIL factors in, scheduling and any number of other pitfalls? Sure, but it's not insurmountable by any means.

[@mischugee]

The integrity of the game is gone now that we are allowing players to be played huge sums. Will a young player straight out of highschool be able to handle a half of million dollars? Will he bust his butt at practice? Will the other players not receiving as much money become discontent when they think they deserve more money? Everyone for the team will just be a thing of the past. College football is becoming the New Younger Version of The NFL!

[@offtopluto]

Look at the NFL The Dallas Cowboys play in the NFC East with NY, Philadelphia and Washington.

[@gperry84]

You dont understand that every Ath Dept uses that football money to fund their whole departments. A lot of schools dont have that extra money.

[@thomasferris8479]

If using the word "heck" prompts you to say "pardon my language," that in itself is a refreshing change to me. I appreciate your keeping the language clean. Josh you come across as very astute on your subject matter and very professional in your presentation. HOW REFRESHING !! Keep up the good work!

[@tamayo991]

Ain't gonna happen: Title IX requires schools to effectively accommodate the athletic interests and abilities of their students, regardless of sex, and provide equal opportunity in the benefits, opportunities, and treatment provided for their athletic teams.

[@OndreaS123]

if there were a college football commission, would all media deals go through that governing body?

[@joesmith6972]

The players should have been paid something, anything, a loooooonnngggg time ago. Instead, the NCAA made billions off the same athletes who weren't even allowed to sell their own signature. And now we are here.

[@stevenlunsford5782]

The age old problem. Politics in college football are it's leadership. Until it becomes a game of non bias, you will never see what is supposed to exist. Money always runs that which is gand that's what we have in college football. So long and farewell my old friend.

[@walterrobinson1988]

Thinking this would remove NIL from recruiting is a tad naïve imo. The players that have the potential to be worth a lot more than 50k, will still be offered big bucks to choose the teams that want to win the most. Everyone getting paid 50k wouldn't change that in any way.

[@blabberer8950]

The players have self interest too and the top college players don't want to make 50K they want to make 250K-2 million a year.

[@AU9377]

There is no direction, but the solution isn't to run head first into transforming universities into franchises. The solution is congressional action followed by university presidents stepping up to the plate and establishing an across the board compensation structure that removes bidding wars and unsustainable NIL deals. Playing college sports is a privilege and should be respected as such.

[@alyssiagoose4274]

Should the scholarship for paid education apply into the gross pay for athlete?

[@dr.markevers8331]

Any scholarship that is paid out in excess of tuition and fees is already taxable income.

[@dperl5640]

I do not see how giving a rev share to every player at all changes what NIL would do to entice recruiting and transfers. I like the idea of rev sharing. But it would not change anything! If everyone was getting the same $ to play, it is the same as everyone getting nothing to play. You would still have players out there saying "ok so I get $50K to play anywhere, so now who will offer me the most to go there".

[@xansolskjr8628]

Chip Kelly's two cents and a WNBA trophy still won't pay for an Uber ride to the stadium.

[@therehastobesomethingmoore]

NIL and the transfer portal have changed college football for me. It’s hard to be a fan when your team drastically changes every year. The players mostly aren’t proud of the school. 61, and have loved college football my whole life, but my interest is slowly dying

[@captchompers6920]

Thank god your opinion doesn’t matter because when a coach gets paid 8-11M a year on the backs of “amateur” athletes, you realize this isn’t right. Would you at that age want to get paid for your work? Boomers are done.

[@therehastobesomethingmoore]

@@captchompers6920 Capt Chompers ? A true beta male. Your thoughts on my opinion matters zero to me.

[@captchompers6920]

@@therehastobesomethingmoore cool, 30 years younger beta male. Least I’m won’t be dying in next 10 years.

[@lamarunderwood5055]

Right. Most of the Power 5 schools football programs generate most of the revenue for these schools. At this point D1 football has become a developmental league for the NFL. They all should be independent at this point.👀👀👀🤷🏾‍♂️😬

[@johncochran263]

We need to get a handle on this thing. Rich get richer and everyone else

[@spidaman0112]

@joshpate check out what mcneese coach has to say

[@cjober6328]

If the schools were on the hook to revenue share with the scholarship kids, you would see the normal tuition for these schools go up haha.

[@randolph84brown]

They used people outside of the sport to create the original BCS Rankings. I vote for Josh Pate to be on a new College Football committee.... No joke🙄

[@timebomb42]

Kinda random....but does anyone remember "the lorax"? All the animals sat peacefully in their paradise, plenty to eat, barely anything was bad. Then came someone, someone who said "I can make a lot of money off this place" and proceeded to chop down and destroy everything that made that place special, and instead put out product, product that the average people absolutely loved. Product that made a lot of people a lot of money, product that gained so many consumers, that most said it was worth the sacrifice for the greater good of their lives. Then came a SMACK!! An ear splitting CHOMP!! And when the people looked up they discovered that the last tree of that beautiful Forest had been cut down, all the animals, all the scenery that made everything special in the first place.....gone. But few people cared, because the money, the product, the consumers, all had gained too much to care about what they destroyed. I'm not some "anti capitalist, environmentalist, socialist c**t" just someone who watches college football. And from what I can see, we're on our last tree. Do we let them chop it down?? For the greater good of the "consumers" (Thanks for reading my really unnecessarily long comment , hopefully you got something out of it, but if you didn't here's a cookie 🍪🍪)

[@timebomb42]

Have a great day.

[@JSum81]

He's dead right! I been saying it for years. Everyone rips ND for not being in a conference, but in reality they got it figured out a hell of alot better than most universities. Conferences are a joke to prop up lesser schools who can't financially compete and it still doesn't help.

[@danielrn133]

So if a team can't "financially compete" then they don't count? Your argument is it should be entirely determined on money? Really? Conferences aren't designed to prop up "lesser" schools. How TF does that make any sense? You think Alabama is in the SEC to "prop up" other teams? They added Texas because they feel sorry for them? Christ.

[@JSum81]

@danielrn133 that's reality dude... money is all that matters and you know it. I don't like it, but it's just the truth. The bottom feeders of the "conferences" feed off the top guys.

[@JSum81]

@danielrn133 you used a horrible example btw... texas brings money to the SEC being one of the most valuable programs in all of college football.