We better get cracking on paying players..

[bowman1]

14 hours ago, Friscobull said:

Those are the poorer schools in Texas, only question is will UT or A&M be the first team to 6 digits per player.  

I am wondering when college teams start differentiating payments based on skill/position - after all, is the next star QB worth the same as a guy you are bringing on as a third string kicker?

At that point, they would basically be pro-teams

[zarnozdabull]

I have a great idea on how to pay players.

We are currently at +5000 to win a conference title.

Get some (as much as possible) money together and put it on USF to win the AAC, all winnings go to the players and you spell this out to them. Therefore, you are incentivizing the players to play their best and win the title for the sake of a nice payout.

It's a win-win-win as long they win. Fans get to watch their team play competitive, players make money if they win, and we all live happily ever after.

On another note: This is mostly a joke, but I am gonna go ahead and place a bet for us to win the AAC. I like those +5000 odds.

[usf97]

Seems like Deja Vu. Is this 1980? 

 

And you may find yourself behind the wheel of a large automobile
And you may find yourself in a beautiful house, with a beautiful wife
And you may ask yourself, "Well, how did I get here?"

Same as it ever was, same as it ever was

[puc86]

The number of players that are going to pick a school based on an OCS over $50k a year to then can be measured on exactly zero hands. 

[smazza]

16 hours ago, jchem1995 said:

This will not sustain. If not then its simply who can buy the best team.

there is so much money is college football

this will sustain

i remember when the first mlb players got paid 100k per year. the naysayers said the samething

[jchem1995]

12 minutes ago, smazza said:

there is so much money is college football

this will sustain

i remember when the first mlb players got paid 100k per year. the naysayers said the samething

Not a naysayer. What I mean is if there is no oversight, college athletics will be who pays the most money. 

[Bulls On Parade]

I hope some smaller team has a rich billionaire donor and starts taking recruits  from Bama and Ohio State...that's going to be funny. 

I don't see this lasting long in its current state at all. 

[Brad]

Seriously, why spend billions on a pro team?  Buy Kennesaw State, buy players, go Indy and beat the ESPN schools.

[Dave_Glaser]

What an absolute mess . . . 

I pretty much gave up on pro sports awhile back because of the greed, etc. Now this. The bright side: I see more guitar time in my future. 

[Friscobull]

2 hours ago, bowman1 said:

I am wondering when college teams start differentiating payments based on skill/position - after all, is the next star QB worth the same as a guy you are bringing on as a third string kicker?

At that point, they would basically be pro-teams

I was thinking the exact same thing, one you differentiate it will really get ugly.  I am not too worried, we have had nothing for so long that we really do not have much to lose.