| NEWS College leaders are considering a reduction in football rosters to as few as 85, sources tell @YahooSports .
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Likely, you would not be playing football in college if this was the case in your day.
Nope! Would’ve never gotten the chance!
I'm just reading what I'm reading...some of it I like, some I don't. It looks like the beginnings of a cap; not a bad thing. Who it excludes? It's changing the game we follow, again. We don't see a guy like Rashaad, or Levi.
Amateur sports, RIP.
I'd think more of, but on a club level.
But won't that require a competent oversight committee? That would certainly not be the NCAA.
I guess the formation of a new organization to keep schools honest...
Once the schools have to start paying them, the roster sizes were going to shrink anyway... IMO we are just getting some bits and pieces of the sausage making process leaked to us while they try to figure out the best recipe.
Exactly. I suspect that they are allowing things to be as they are to see where the money and demand is. They had to leave things unregulated to help guide their future reforms of conference realignment and player compensation. Obviously the professional sports markets in urban centers across the country don't want to compete with collegiate athletics for patronage and ticket sales. So they needed to see just how crazy NIL would get without limits or caps before decreeing a standard set of limits and caps uniformly across the sport.
I think they are also finding out where they can continue to make their money in the process as well. See where it is as you said, and then figure out where we can insert ourselves to be profitable again off their backs. While the NCAA appears very stupid, they are actually VERY intelligent. They walked a fine line for years knowing what was coming and that they had no teeth once the storm began. They beat it back a little but only delayed the inevitable. Now they will restructure and insert themselves as "friends" of the conferences and buddy up to make money.
Many schools lose money on a yearly basis, even for college football. I am not surprised that this has not actually sooner. For every Alabama, nd, Ohio St. Georgia, Texas, Oklahoma and the like, you have Kent St., Washington St. Oregon St. and the like playing big name schools just to try to break even.
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