The Miami Ute

There’s a profit sharing agreement with the players on the horizon. Preparation for that is one of the main reasons why Oklahoma State forced Gundy to restructure his contract.

Well, LOL, the great man himself is a Cougar…hard to get away from stuff living in Utah…

Well, they’re in the G6 so they don’t really count…I should have specified that I was talking about P4 specifically…

That’s what I’m thinking…it should be once a year right after the end of the Spring semester…you could even keep the 16-25 April that’s already there. Sports and NIL are really starting to affect the university experience to the extent that I fear a backlash will be coming soon.

One of the problems with the current system is that there aren’t any real contractual obligations. Dampier could sign with Utah, start pocketing NIL payments, and then jet on April 25 having done absolutely nothing for the Utes. Damien Martinez waited until he received his last $100K NIL check from Oregon State and then immediately transferred…[Read more]

Talk to me once football season starts. In the new environment, Dampier could have a great spring camp, be offered by another school, and be gone before he ever even played one game for Utah.

Rick, the road to hell is paved with good intentions and not all change is progress. I have to imagine that the federal government will be forced to get involved if we start seeing a system where athletes, a huge of number of which are minorities, no longer have an opportunity to attend college (in essence, become disenfranchised) because the new…[Read more]

The answer is really simple. If you as a fan don’t like the current product on display or the ecosystem it’s in, then opt out. I haven’t watched an NBA or MLB game in over half a decade, and I’ve been a huge fan of baseball and basketball for almost my entire life. Once some time passes, you realize that you don’t miss the sport and you’re…[Read more]

Likely the end game is that big-time college football is restricted to 30-40 schools, which is exactly what the networks want, and everybody else just drops sports altogether in a competitive manner. Think about it, why would an educational institution all of a sudden be beholden to sports in general and add a thousand more “employees” that…[Read more]

There is none. College football and basketball have jumped the shark.

Personally, I think that, in some undetermined future, when athletes are considered school employees, a number of schools will cut the cord with organized athletics. I fully expect that to be the case with the high-end academic schools like Cal, Stanford, Northwestern, Vanderbilt, and many others. What I think will happen is that the academics…[Read more]

Once they’re determined to be employees of individual schools, I would think that’s what’s going to happen. It’s absolute, utter bullshit that you can devote time and resources on a specific player and then have some other school sweep in and scoop the player up at no cost to itself.

A combination of the networks and naked self-interest by players is going to kill college football as we know it. Without any guardrails or ground rules that everyone has to play by, then fans’ entertainment dollars are going to go elsewhere and college football will become a worse version of the XFL.

Reads like an efficiency report for a mediocre employee.

At the point that I’m writing this, the U automatically accepts all students from the Canyons, Davis, Granite and Provo school districts who have a 3.5 GPA or higher at the start of their senior year.

Well, the issue there is that in the NBA there are a multitude of persons who are both smarter and richer than Smith.

I didn’t know Isaac had his own publicist.

Better yet, have the NFL pay for it since it is the organization that receives all of the benefits of free player development. I can’t believe how, in all of this, the NFL gets a free pass. Have each NFL team take a few college teams in its regional location and use them as farm teams in some sort of subsidized league along with the networks.…[Read more]