Re: Campbell decommiting is simply

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Sep 22, 2024, 6:34 PM [ in reply to Re: Campbell decommiting is simply ]

The fantasy idealism part of me would like for the NIL and the ability of all college students … whether on scholarship or not … to have an outside job or an outside source of legal income to not interfere with college football as I had known it.

The rational realism aspect of me recognizes that there is only one way for colleges to force a return to amateur-only sports in college:

Acceptance conditions for the college that preclude all students from having any outside jobs, outside sources of income, and monetary stipends for students from any source (including parents or relatives or clubs or churches, etc). Co-operative student job programs, in which students take a semester off to work for a non-university entity as a means of getting work experience, could only be done if the co-op student did not get paid or receive benefits-in-kind (such as a motorcycle, car, gasoline card, etc) compensation. Any and all money that the student gets is from the college, and that monetary disbursement is equal for all students.

The rationale for the college which adopts this strict ‘no outside money’ policy would be that outside jobs or monetary gifts are distractions from the academic purpose of the college, and therefore are prohibited.

Of course, no college that aspires to compete in college athletics will agree to this type of setup.

Also, there is nothing that forces any college to pay either arrange for NIL money or to provide flat-out monetary gifts to the student athlete. Yet, because college athletics has become enormously important to so many colleges, there will be very few colleges that adopt a ‘we won’t do it’ approach, although even these schools won’t be able to stop a car dealership from ‘hiring’ an athlete who attends that school from being given a ‘job’ to have his photograph posted by the coffee machine.

It’s never going back to the way it used to be. Our sentiments on this don’t matter. Our legal system was challenged to address the plantation-esque traditional student athlete model, and correctly ruled that it was unfair to the student athletes. Selfishly, I liked it the old way. Being fair, the new way is better.

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Ruined? Not true. At least not yet, and not for several more years.

Altered irrevocably? Absolutely true. The ‘alteration’ of the financial / media / college sports model has just begun.

IMO, the business model for college athletics will be hurt significantly by the NIL + soon-to-be direct salaries paid to college athletes. At this instance in time, the Disney (ESPN) and Fox/FS-1 contracts are big and getting bigger. These contracts are predicated upon a growing and increasingly passionate population of viewers.

That predicate will be upended as fans of those schools that can no longer compete lose interest in college football and men’s basketball.

As the TV / streaming audiences deteriorate, then so will the value of the contracts paid to the NCAA or whatever rump of that organization becomes. Then, the downward spiral has begun. Where it stops, nobody knows.

Campbell decommiting is simply