Why have collegiate athletics? Are they central to the core mission of a university (teaching,research, service)? Why not go to the European system if club teams, and relieve schools of the burden of managing athletics in the first place?
PS—Let’s take your idea of a developmental football league to its logical conclusion. Let’s say the top 25 percent of college football players choose to go to the developmental league. You don’t think that will have a DRAMATIC impact on the quality of NCAA football and the interest in college football? It would have much more impact than letting kids monetize their social media accounts.
I pretty much agree with Fitzphile.
And if somebody wanted to start a club system like they are doing in soccer here in the U.S., I'd have no problem with it. I think that's also a great professional developmental system. It's ironic that you are advocating stopping all college athletics because the NFL won't fund its own developmental league to address causes problems in two sports out of the large overall number. I don't think we should let a problem in a couple of sports stop all of them when college athletics provide a fantastic facet to the overall college experience.
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