2025-2026 College Football, Now the Minor Leagues of the NFL.

Mahes

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I think it fitting to start this season with this article.

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College sports changed forever as judge approves groundbreaking move

Judge Claudia Wilken has approved the settlement in the House v. NCAA case - which now paves a pathway to allow colleges and universities to directly pay their athletes and changes sports forever.
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I think it is fair to say that college football will no longer be college football. You already see how much the conversation has dropped off on these boards. The idea of what college football represented for the student has changed. Now the student will just enter a training camp. Education was never the primary reason but now it becomes no reason at all. Walk on students will no longer exist as colleges will be purchasing the ones they want.

There was always a chance for the minor colleges to have that year. Now that is gone. It will be difficult/impossible to compete against multi-billion dollar institutions.

I wonder how long before colors, mascots, and even names are changed by the corporations that help to support and fund the colleges?

Oh, and of course tuition will continue to rise. We do not want to pass down any of that benefit to the actual students.
 
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jooka

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I was surprised Trump toyed with the idea of trying to put the toothpaste back in the tube but that seemingly failed over the course of just a weekend. Suggesting Saban be a big part of it seemed to pretty much kill it damn near immediately.
 
lurkingdirk

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Man, what a stupid idea. This going to totally change the sport. In all the wrong ways. Let's see how much advertising there is on the field.
 
Arative

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Any non revenue sports will be cut or greatly reduced. Rich schools will buy who ever they want now.
 
Wombat

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I thought NIL deals were a bridge too far, as they allowed well-heeled donors to sign 'endorsement' deals to outbid their collegiate competition.

Now this is just the schools directly cutting out the proxy.

I can buy the argument that the average player doesn't have time to hold a part time job with modern sports programs, but it should only be a low, blanket amount applied to everyone (e.g. every men's NCAAF player gets $1k a month), because otherwise this will instantly devolve into rich schools/donors buying their way into the elite tier in each conference that only ever see bowl games.
 
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