I'll be honest. I'd like to see UFA ages in the NHL dropped tremendously too. Five years from the 18th birthday. That's it. When you turn 23, you should start to have a say in your future. Especially considering how shortlived most NHL careers are.
The NCAA didn't do shit except clutch onto the billions it made off the backs of kids and young adults and say "It's mine, it's mine!" What's going on now was inevitable but they made it 10X worse by allowing ESPN and other outside entities to pump even more obscene amounts of money into the whole enterprise, which led to the whole mess with power conferences stealing schools from one another, and coaches getting a sizable cut themselves.
Oh, shit. He did delete it.
The most viable one from that list is Kroenke. Makes sense from his perspective to own all the major teams in town outside the Broncos. And has the resources to easily do so and doesn't own a baseball team.
Honestly wouldn't be surprised if Monfort sold now. Same with KSE selling the Rapids or even the whole enchilada of the 3 teams in Denver eventually. Sports valuations are getting crazy and the new buyers are super rich and competitive. These guys don't play that game, they see these as unique businesses with bottom lines that matter and in KSEs case, option value in real estate.
Oh FIFA is far more corrupt than the NBA. FIFA has a legit argument as the most corrupt organization in the world.
Perhaps at a high level yes for things like where to place their events and getting kickbacks related to it. But controlling the event outcomes and maximizing ratings it's all on UEFA and the individual leagues. The NBA acts like these leagues all too often IMO. The main difference to me is that the regular season is all meaningless in NBA and not in the big soccer leagues so I still go with NBA for shading results and letting refs show outright biases. But for sure soccer is a mess.
