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Not a whole lot of substance to this rebuttal... Why would paying players worsen parity? If Bama and Clemson are doing whatever they want today, paying players would INCREASE parity! Do you think those schools would experience a revenue uplift due to paying players? They've lost 2 games vs...

Ok so now I know you were lying about the PhD thing - no school would award an econ degree to someone who says "revenue is a meaningless number"!

You make a lot of good points, but I think your argument is fundamentally flawed - there is no, and there has never been, parity in college football. Hundreds/thousands of schools play college football, and only 10-20 have a realistic chance of winning a title. The revenue that those top 10-20...

Can I ask why? I don't know the poster you're referring to, so nothing against him. But I see coaches and ex-players giving their opinions on this all of the time, and I always wonder why anyone cares what they think. They're good at football. Let them talk about football. This isn't about...

I don't think this would happen in a truly free labor market. But even if it did, why would it be a problem? It's only a problem in today's world, because it's against the rules and the rules are poorly enforced, allowing some teams to do it but not others. Is a "no show job" any different...

Oh and to the "who pays the player" question...the school would pay the players. If this were to drive the football program out of business, the school would increase the prices of tickets, parking, concessions, etc. - i.e., pass along some of it to the end consumer, the fan. The fan would pay...

That already happens. https://247sports.com/Season/2019-Football/CompositeTeamRankings/ https://247sports.com/Season/2018-Football/CompositeTeamRankings/ https://247sports.com/Season/2017-Football/CompositeTeamRankings/ https://247sports.com/Season/2016-Football/CompositeTeamRankings/...

I understand this concern, and it's why it took me a while to come around to my current perspective that college football should be a completely free labor market. However, after seeing Alabama and Clemson play for (basically) their 4th straight national title, I am no longer concerned about...

It absolutely baffles me that so many people care so deeply about suppressing these kids' wages. Why can't they just be paid like everyone else in this country: freely negotiated market wages based on supply and demand? The only two explanations I can come up with are that (1) some people...

I guess very few of you guys actually believe in free markets. Instead of letting the kids get paid what the free market believes they are worth, most of you are advocating for a system in which employers collude to distort (and in the cases of elite athletes, suppress) wages. "But they get...