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Friday = HS football
Saturday = NFL Light
Sunday = NFL

Friday = HS football
Saturday = NFL Light
Sunday = NFL

I don't watch HS football
I only watch one NFL game on Sunday - I'd rather have an NFL Light game on Sunday to watch

I do when they're matched up VS the Vikings

-The POV of the Olympic movement on college football wasn't clear at first, but it's tied in because most American Olympians are trained at universities at the expense of college football.

This is especially true for women's sports because most other countries don't have a Title IX equivalent. Title IX forces universities to spend a lot of dollars subsidizing women's sports.

They say politics makes strange bedfellows and there might not be a more clear case of that than this issue where the people most in favor of Title IX are:

• Radical far left feminists who basically think that people should be compelled to care as much about girl's and women's sports as they do about boy's and men's sports.
• Sports crazy dads of girls who are generally a conservative voting block.

How is one person somehow just as valid as another?  What does that even mean?  It’s about money. 

Earlier this week on his podcast, Bill Simmons interviewed Casey Wasserman, owner of a large talent agency and CEO of the LA 2028 Olympic Organizing Committee. It was interesting to hear the perspective of the agents and the Olympic movement.

https://www.theringer.com/the-bill-simmons-podcast/2024/3/6/24091964/boston-celtics-flop-best-oscars-story-lines-2028-olympics-fall-of-college-sports-casey-wasserman

-The sheer size of the Summer Olympics is humbling. LA2028 will be the largest gathering of humanity ever in peacetime, he compared it to 7 Super Bowls every day for 30 days.

-Basically, college football has unrestricted free agency, no salary cap, no contracts, and no ability for coaches to keep players longer than a year. Big Ten and SEC look a lot like the AFC and NFC and that's not by accident. Paying players as employees is a non-starter. Universities can't keep eating $100M or more a year on sports.

-The POV of the Olympic movement on college football wasn't clear at first, but it's tied in because most American Olympians are trained at universities at the expense of college football.

-The big question does CFB become it's own entity, or does CFB monetize it's rights differently and use the money to fix the system? Wasserman sees that if CFB keeps all the money, college sports turn into Ivy League non-scholarship clubs, and no one wants that. Amateur sports is in a very tenuous place right now.

-Any solution to college sports involves federal legislation, and when Congress cant even agree on the time of day how do you think they'll fix this?

-College football, even in it's current form, is much larger than either the music or motion picture business.

Very interesting discussion.

To the bit highlighted in red above-- I don't understand when people approach it this way, it's a wrong-headed notion.  "College football" isn't an entity.  It's the universities that are making the money off college football, aside from whatever the the conference league offices scrape off the top.

So it will be the universities themselves that will decide what sports they choose to fund with college football money.  Same as it is now.  And right now, most universities are happy and willing to support non-revenue sports.  I don't see that changing when even MORE money pours into college football.

But this IS precisely why we're unlikely to see paying players directly, and it's also why any potential breakaway is most likely going to be football-only. Because all the non-revenue sports are still going to need to be propped up and paid for and parked somewhere, and there's no point in tearing down the current institutions just to build something that looks exactly like them.  The cost-benefit doesn't make any sense.