Nice article from USA Today by way of SBNation.
Auburn isn’t mistaken about August 1st: Cohen and Freeze just won’t admit that the well has run dry - Roll 'Bama Roll
Says there are essentially two tiers of college football, and most of the P4 is in the second tier. So there's a reckoning coming. Thanks, Captain Obvious -- nothing new there.
It also confirms a question I had -- it's true that there's a cap on the House settlement of a bit over $20 million. But how do you keep a people, ostensibly not related to the University, from spending their own money any way they want? Apparently, the answer is that you don't.
IOW, on top of the revenue sharing, any school that can is offering guaranteed supplements from its collective.
The article notes that the only schools interpreting House in a way that limits outside supplements to revenue sharing are those that can't do it anyway. They would if they could, but they don't have the money.
It goes on to say that most of the Big 12 is broke. And a lot of the SEC, including the barn, is too.
I'm honestly a bit surprised that Jimmy Rane and the Lowders haven't stepped up more. But apparently they haven't.
Finally, the article says that the only solutions are a CBA or a single payer -- which is really just a twist on a CBA. Nothing new there, either. We've been saying that here on TF for about three years now. Still, it's gratifying that the national talking heads are finally waking up and saying the quiet part out loud.
Auburn isn’t mistaken about August 1st: Cohen and Freeze just won’t admit that the well has run dry - Roll 'Bama Roll
Says there are essentially two tiers of college football, and most of the P4 is in the second tier. So there's a reckoning coming. Thanks, Captain Obvious -- nothing new there.
It also confirms a question I had -- it's true that there's a cap on the House settlement of a bit over $20 million. But how do you keep a people, ostensibly not related to the University, from spending their own money any way they want? Apparently, the answer is that you don't.
IOW, on top of the revenue sharing, any school that can is offering guaranteed supplements from its collective.
The article notes that the only schools interpreting House in a way that limits outside supplements to revenue sharing are those that can't do it anyway. They would if they could, but they don't have the money.
It goes on to say that most of the Big 12 is broke. And a lot of the SEC, including the barn, is too.
I'm honestly a bit surprised that Jimmy Rane and the Lowders haven't stepped up more. But apparently they haven't.
Finally, the article says that the only solutions are a CBA or a single payer -- which is really just a twist on a CBA. Nothing new there, either. We've been saying that here on TF for about three years now. Still, it's gratifying that the national talking heads are finally waking up and saying the quiet part out loud.
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