TOTALLY leaving any shred of politics out of it (anyone of any stripe could get this ball rolling) any initial thoughts on this “Saving College Sports” roundtable?
Personally, no matter how many “known names” they trot out it’s a non-starter. Simply for legal reasons. There’s too much money at stake across waaaay too many jurisdictions to get agreement. This will prevent any kind of fair in the true sense of the word structural change. Will such roundtables be able to find a working definition of fair? Then translate that into federal law? Can’t imagine it.
Good! Clearly the NCAA isn’t doing anything.
Those of you who applauded the NIL crap and Transfer Portals…welcome to YOUR college football world.
Congress or the White-House getting involved is like calling a pig to mop the floor. I pay no attention to the coaches and ex-coaches who are wringing their hands and clutching their pearls.
Rant begins (climbing on soapbox):
None of these sumbitches ever met a pay raise that they didn’t like. They talk about “ruining the game” …and its being “out of control”…well…. Fugg That !! The loudest complainers are those who’ve seen the “bagman-edge” get eroded.
They hate that they can’t dictate where a kid goes/transfers when they deem him no longer right for their squad. They didn’t mind when their recruiter got a kid to sign then skipped off to a better/more lucrative position somewhere else.
What they hate most of all is the loss of the “little tin-god” status they had when they had absolute control over everything. Kids were theirs to treat like crap under the excuse of “making them men”. These same guys will still tell you about what a terrific coach and guy Bob Knight was. They are incensed that a kid can tell a coach to go Hell ..transfer and play elsewhere without sitting out a year.
Weed out the bogus agents and fraudsters and put some of the NIL money in escrow for the guys…that’s all they need right now. Evolution is never pretty. The NCAA is what needs to be overhauled . They’ve lost in the courts so now both they and the coaches run crying to congress.
Everybody was getting fat feeding at the trough of college-football money: Video-game companies who got everything for fuggin free. Sportscasters/TV broadcasters and talking heads who could piss on the teams they didn’t like but rake in money from their coverage. Coaches who got side deals from boosters and local businesses. Nobody checked to see what deals were at cross-purposes for these guys…..but a kid getting a free burger …”Heavens to Murgatroyd !”
So it’s messy right now….point taken ! But is the kids’ fault that the NCAA didn’t step in to put a halt to stop the major fuggin conferences from trying to disassemble other conferences. Allowing one company (ESPN) to totally control an “amateur” collge sport ?! No !
If you truly want to “fix/clean up” college football ….as they say in politics….”…follow the money !”
Rant over (climbs down from soapbox) . 
HEAR HEAR!
It can all be summed up with… “Rules for thee, but not for me.”
I do think there needs to be some regulation. but seeing these greedy, self-righteous coaches gripe about it is beyond aggravating.
You know how we get them to shut up? Make any regs that apply to the players, apply to the coaches. Maybe limits on these ridiculous salaries, collective coaching staff salary caps, limits on buy outs and job hopping (looking at you, Lane!) will shut them up.