It's about time that they made some money. Everyone else involved in college football is making tons of money. Why not them?

Purdue? The 2nd/3rd tier D-1 school. I ask as I don't know. But I ask as I am guessing it's nowhere near what say the top 30 schools are getting for them.

I can guarantee that the players aren't getting anywhere close to that.

That was kind of the point of my post; that was allegedly a quote from Nick Saban's wife that he related to the press.

Yeah, it's all the players' fault.

off your fat, rich asses and renegotiate my bullshit NIL deal.

Good News -- we'll get a 50% (6 million dollar bonus) if we make the playoffs

Bad News -- even after the bonus we'll get less than Vanderbilt receives every year

Not a business. Amateur athletics.

Conference alignments that fostered rivalries and made geographic sense becoming as obsolete as the single wing offense. CFB playoffs taking place during the hiatus in which players who actually were students could prepare for finals. Olympic sports athletes traveling coast to coast for conference match-ups.

While I hate the wild west atmosphere of NIL/portal as much as anyone, we can't question the players who create this wealth from trying to get their piece of this pie.

At 132 FBS schools, that’s the value of 85 scholarships per year at $50k.

Now, maybe there are 133 FBS schools instead of 132, 82 scholarships per school instead of 85, and the value of the average full football scholarship is $40k or $60k instead of $50k. Or maybe it’s a fair bit higher than $60k. I don’t know. Pick a number. Also consider how much of the scholarship value should be grossed up to a pre-tax-equivalent, as people generally have purchasing power only with after-tax money.

I have a D1 athlete under my roof. Non-revenue sport at a private university. Academics plus room & board plus coaching plus strength training plus physiotherapy plus nutrition plus sports psychology plus travel plus competitive opportunity — I would place the annual value of the experience easily north of $100k. If you asked me to ballpark it to a $5k annual range, I might say $120-125k. And I think a substantial percentage of the value should be grossed up to a pre-tax-equivalent, so this could easily land in a $175-200k pre-tax value. Annual.

I don’t know how much revenue sport athletes should get in addition to all these benefits. Or what the number should be for the real impact players versus medium-impact or low-impact. And I also don’t know how much more any given P2 athlete should get versus the equivalent in rest of the P4/5 or G5.

But there’s a popular narrative that the athletes have been getting absolutely nothing until recently and are still being grotesquely short-changed. I don’t think that is remotely accurate.

Some folks may also discount the value of the academic opportunity. Given that no more than a mid-single-digit percentage of FBS football players have as much as a three-year NFL career, the failure of many athletes to capitalize on the student part of the experience is mainly down to them, their parents and whatever advisors they have exposure to along the way (some employed by the universities they attend, others not).