If they don't want this to cause a gravitational collapse of the entire college football system, they should implement a salary cap to allow the handful of non elite (football) schools to compete. Without competition, no one will bother watching anymore and the house of cards will fall. Every major pro US sport has a form of a salary cap now.
If the top 6-8 traditional football programs can just buy all the best players, the other 150 school will just fall by the wayside.
Not sure if this is what I was referring to or not. If its just part of the settlement or a permanent cap on spending?
It’s not permanent necessarily, it’s just part of this 10 year proposed settlement. But I guess it could begin a framework. It also remains to be seen how each school will distribute that share amongst
all of its sports (and there are potential Title IX concerns).
I agree that having some kind of cap would be great. But there’s a long legal web to untangle as this moves forward. The NCAA is trying to get out of the other antitrust suits by settling this one, while signaling to Congress that they need/deserve an antitrust exemption. Plus, kids might try to opt out of this settlement and take their chances with other suits. It’s a mess.
Also, the NCAA’s portion (~40%) is being subsidized by the non-Power 5 conferences. So they’re not happy about that.
I would love some competitive balance in college football. It would be nice for the rest of the country to get in on the action, rather than competition centered mostly around the South/Midwest. But, we’re still a long way from anything like a cap, and NIL money will always come from schools with the richest boosters. This is just step 1 of the NCAA trying to wrest control back from those boosters.
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