The future of college football

[aelmiami]

The Blue bloods will start doing it when the boosters are tired of just paying players to play for their team without winning a title and start saying "we want some financial returns on our investments".

Maybe. But if there’s one thing about those schools themselves, they are greedy af. The reason I’m skeptical is they don’t wanna share their cash cows money. A PE would force that.

 

[aelmiami]

We’re saying the same thing. At the end of the day, not every team or PE is gonna be successful. Also struggle to see this being the future of college athletics.

It’s perfect for desperate and hungry teams with no money. Cough….FSU….Cough. But like Ohio State, Texas, A&M? They ain’t touching that imo.

 

[Canedude08]

So college football was crap? Jesus H.

It was a system built on exploitation, so yes. Entertaining **** is still ****. I’ll never understand those that think that the old system was okay. It was trash, we just didn’t care.

 

[WaterburyCane]

This is going to end very badly.

In my world of tech, Ive never ever heard anyone I know tell me that things have gotten better after their company had been acquired by a PE firm. Quite the opposite.

 

[RedSquare]

I think it would be more like enforcement in the pro leagues.

not to get too technical, but if there is a CBA, then issues of enforcement and compliance would fall under the NLRA/NLRB/Taft-Hartley at the federal level, and statutes like the Taylor Act at the State levels.

which means if anyone plays too fast and loose with the rules, the federal courts will have something to say about it, and the NCAA (such as it is), will not be an a great position to play favorites like they did during the Mark Emmert days. nor will boosters want to find themselves on the other end of a subpoena from an action filed in some District Court

of course, I am not certain how universities in states with right to work laws, (e.g., Florida and most of the SEC) are going to even have the capacity to enter into a CBA without some real political and legal gymnastics, such as agreeing to agency fees and entering into fair share contracts like they do in professional sports. Given the political climate and overall hostility out there, I am pretty sure this will be an absolute clusterf#ck of gargantuan proportions.