Quote Originally Posted by maroonmania View Post
The ironic part of all this is that the impetus for all this was the fact that schools and coaches were making all this money from the TV revenue without any of it going to the players. Well, you know what, schools and coaches still have ALL that money with none going to the players and instead fans and boosters are being shaken down to throw in additional money from what they normally spend to satisfy the greed of the players who are now legally going to the highest bidder
Truth. We lost our tax write off for organizations like the BDC. Prices on everything keep rising. Now we're supposed to pay a damned salary to players on top of it. NIL should have meant players get cut in on the TV revenue and profits, not asking Joe from Podunk to give even more of his limited disposable income to players. And I will undoubtedly have someone reply to this post saying I don't understand economics, shut up, stick your hand in you pocket, pay more, and be happy about it.

This all started when coaching salaries ballooned to ridiculous amounts. Cap coaching salaries at $2M/year. Revenue share the TV money with the players and give them a cut of merch sales for jerseys, shirts, etc. Reduce schollies to 65-70 to spread out the talent and create more parity. Problem solved. But that would make sense, so it'll never happen.