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[Thunder @thund3rdan]

@SALES_720 @ChrisMurphyCT @JayBilas The solution is the players and conferences/NCAA collectively bargaining for the revenue split and rules/guidelines that go along with the commensurate split

The solution for this problem isn’t coming from Congress.

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@SSN_TexasState @ChrisMurphyCT NCAA college athletics now has an annual revenue of $15B. That’s roughly the annual revenue of Delta Airlines or Marriott Hotels.

What will save college sports is acknowledging it’s a giant business and it should treat the people driving that revenue accordingly

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@VocalMajority3 @SammyBarrow32 @money_cruncher It’s 2 different taxes. Income tax and sales tax.

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@chrisstlmo @BLKAtticusFinch @SonOfNumenor313 @geoffschwartz I don’t understand that threat at all.

A 28 year old Australian is going to file a lawsuit in American courts because a college football team isn’t giving him an opportunity to play football and he is losing money because of it?

[Thunder @thund3rdan]

@chrisstlmo @BLKAtticusFinch @SonOfNumenor313 @geoffschwartz What is this age discrimination threat you keep bringing up? How is that a threat from CFL/international players?

[Thunder @thund3rdan]

@chrisstlmo @BLKAtticusFinch @SonOfNumenor313 @geoffschwartz Im in favor of 5 years to play 5 years with very limited exceptions.

If you signed a professional contract to play a sport in the USA then you forgo any and all eligibility to play that sport collegiately.

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@chrisstlmo @BLKAtticusFinch @SonOfNumenor313 @geoffschwartz There were over 14,000 FBS college football players in the 2025-2026 season, can you name a single one that played in the NFL and then played CFB?

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@chrisstlmo @BLKAtticusFinch @SonOfNumenor313 @geoffschwartz No other industry do we complain that someone’s skills necessitate the market paying them $2M-$3M per year.

Covid definitely messed up eligibility but the number of players playing more than 5 years of CFB is an extremely low percentage and we will see even less in the future.

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@Chris173629 @JohnRichTV Yea, Bama football did great things for the University. But none of that happens without the players. Saban never scored a TD or made a tackle for Bama.

Why are we complaining about the players making more money but not the coaches?

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@HuskerMike28 @BudElliott3 It’s certainly not a great investment but a lot of them are donating from business entities so it’s a tax write off as well.

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@chrisstlmo @SonOfNumenor313 @geoffschwartz I guess it all depends what “professional” means to you for CFB

You were fine watching when the players were getting paid $20K-$25K in the 90s and 2000s. It was fine when they got $100K in the 2010s. It was fine when they got $500K + cars in the 2020s.

Making $1M+ is too much?

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@HuskerMike28 @BudElliott3 I know from family members that give NIL to Georgia that donors get gifts/memorabilia/locker room/sideline NFL experiences if the player(s) they give money for make it in the NFL.

They use it for business client experiences and special items to gain favor with others.

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@chrisstlmo @SonOfNumenor313 @geoffschwartz It’s not going to go away, it’s just going to change.

Too many teams are making too much money for that to ever happen.

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@RandyBartels14 @geoffschwartz Why should being a student athlete put a cap on the amount of money you can earn?

With YouTube, TikTok, OnlyFans and Instagram there are more 18-22 year old millionaires than ever before

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@OutlawsUflb @geoffschwartz Saban is an all-time coach but he had 0 TDs and 0 tackles for Bama. He wouldn’t have earned a penny for the state if the players weren’t on the field.

Now we are talking about limiting the earning potential for only one of those parties.

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@chrisstlmo @geoffschwartz By that definition of “sustainable”, any business is sustainable until it runs out of money

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@chrisstlmo @geoffschwartz It’s sustainable as long as the boosters and NIL collectives are giving money.

If those parties stop providing the player money at their current levels then player spending will go down.

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@bweezybird @geoffschwartz College football teams now have GMs and/or Player Personnel departments.

No doubt there is more work to be done but the staffs are bigger than ever before and being paid more than ever before

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@CaptKen6 @geoffschwartz No question he did a great job, but without the actual players there wouldn’t have been a 3x increase in school revenue.

So why should the players earning potential be capped? They are the ones taking the physical risk to drive revenue for the school.

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@bweezybird @geoffschwartz Sure the coaches deserve credit for helping the players but not as much credit as the players themselves.

There’s a reason in the NFL why the top players make 3x-4x more than the top head coaches.