dpdoughbird06
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If the players had ended up forming a union it would have been fun to see them collectively bargain a P5 salary cap/luxury tax/NIL floor.The big money is here to stay but I think it could be handled better. What that better way looks like I don't know but the current way reminds me of the old NFL/AFL battle for players before the merger was agreed upon. Money rules all! When you factor in this kind of money and the easy movement with the portal I can see real chaos over the next few years. Not everyone will act with integrity or abide by the rules, what rules there are remaining. One university finds a diamond in the rough and they develop him into a stud player for a FCS or Group of 5 program. A representative of one of the Big Boys quietly approaches the player with an offer of millions of dollars if he just enters the portal and moves to their program. Everyone knows this kind of thing will happen if it is not happening already.
It really is incredible what has happened to college football in a short few years. I was thinking about the Tattoo scandal at Ohio State that cost Jim Tressel his job as head coach. The players were selling some memorabilia and got discounts at a local tattoo parlor and Tressel attempted to cover it up. It cost him his job. That was 2010 just 12 years ago. Discounts on tattoos was a huge scandal and now players are getting offers of $800,000 a year to play. Wow!