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This. Those couple years were magical. Wish she'd have just gone pro last year, but it seems like she probably did boost her stock some. Good for her.

Why are the mega donors paying that money? There are people willing to pay money to win because of their fandom. The fact that you are a fan and you disagree doesn't mean that everyone who calls themselves a fan disagrees. Sure, it's a skewed distribution, but the fandom is still the driver.

market value largely is not driving these NIL deals. When 10% of the funding for the payment comes from true NIL deals with businesses and the other 90% is donors throwing wads of cash, you have a clear market failure.

These aren't NIL deals. They are pay-for-play. That's the market I'm talking about. Fans want to win, and fans are willing to pay money to win.

So the biggest brands may attract the top talent for an NFL Lite (which I don't think is going to have staying power long-term), but the rest of FBS may adopt some sort of modified amateurism.

Working fine (from a business perspective) for European soccer.

Replying to your edit:

Long-term, I think the tv networks are missing the fact that so much of the viewership from college football is from fans of schools across the country who follow and love the sport.

I think this might have been true a decade or two ago, but I don't think that's the case any more. I don't think college students are planning 9am to 1am around college football outside of their school/conference. Gen Z and younger millennials don't do this. Older Millenials and Gen X are starting to have families/not have time for this.

Consolidating the top brands I think is going to alienate and hurt a large chunk of their viewership, and at that point they're just competing against the NFL. Who wants to watch a glorified developmental league head-to-head vs the NFL if you're a casual viewer?

This is the point that I think you're wrong on. The casual fan, who doesn't know what a message board is, who just likes sports, who makes up the majority of viewership, wants fewer, more recognizable teams. That person cares about Penn State vs Oregon. That person has zero interest in WVU vs Pitt.

If you're a sicko on a message board, you get WVU vs Pitt, and that game is going to interest you any weekend. But that's not the bulk of viewers.

Eventually an Ohio State or Alabama will get tired of sharing revenue even with a small elite group and we'll end up back in decentralized regional conferences where they can be the big dog against lesser competition.

I do think this is the inevitable outcome. 20ish teams in a super league, 2-6 mid-major conferences with 8-16 teams each, then a new layer in between the FCS and the new-mid-major.

And even if that does happen, it doesn't have to be terrible. It could even be better than things are now.

yes it's an assumption of the medical redshirt. twin brother Jorden only has one year left as R-SR

The sad thing is that when I read this "maybe one of the OL who have been in the program a couple of years and aren't progressing" my immediate thought was wouldn't that include every offensive lineman we have that has been in the program a couple of years?

I'm sure some have shown some benefit. I have no ability to rate them like you and others have. But it gave me a real 'ugh' moment.

"Contracts come with buyouts/transfer fees"- This won't change a damn thing. You think a buyout would have stopped LSU from pursuing Delane? no chance.

But it could get us another 6 figures that could be used to land the next delane.

What I want is a governing body, amateurism rules in terms of academics and years eligible and true/traceable/legitimate NIL.

Amateurism will never be back. These players have shown that their roster spots have value to the people who fund athletic departments.

I can't believe they didn't transfer out before Spring. Their dad sat next to us early in the year and quickly made it known he didn't want his sons playing for Pry and co.

You called the McDonald transfer a few months ago

It 100% sucks that she'll be listed as Georgia Amoore - Kentucky, but if it wasn't for her most of you wouldn't care at all about women's basketball and her transferring can't take away that we went to the Final Four when she was a Hokie.

Loved her when she was with us, ignore her now. Wish we had one like her every year, though.

Corso's comments in the old X-Box NCAA Football still echo in my brain ("...sniffed that out from the get-go!"). Time eventually gets all of us. Glad he was able to end it on his terms.

I remember that cat was the only piece of their defense who was really concerning to me. Grubbs ended up having a good game, but if both of them had played the whole game it would have been far more interesting.