What percentage of Division I Football Players even have an NFL Career?
Sure, college football is a feeder league, but for most of these kids a college education worth a couple hundred thousand dollars that could set them up for a sustainable career isn't nothing. Unfortunately, most of these kids are fed the lie that they are NFL worthy and don't take advantage of this. Jerod Evans??
I don't have the answer for how profits from college football should be spent, but paying only the top athletes ridiculous amounts of money isn't going to help the sport or the large majority of the athletes that play it.
Most of the arguments for a "free market" in sports ignore the fact that it's not the players and teams within the sport that should be competing against each other for the dough, its the sport itself that is competing with other entertainment activities for the money. Look at the popularity of Baseball (a sport that only consistently work for a handful of teams) and the NFL. In the NFL, people can support teams in Green Bay Wisconsin and Buffalo New York, because they know they can compete. In Baseball, teams are losing fans as new generations abandon the sport unless they live in New York, Boston or LA. In the NFL, the sport can build strong fan bases nationwide which turns into a wildly profitable operation for all.
College football is taking the baseball route. There will be far more losers than winners in the long run.
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Posted: 03/23/2022 at 11:36AM