A.D. for state flagship university predicts college football super-division

[Blake Munroe]

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"In the long run, I think there will be a change and I think there will be a division that is created where the top 40-ish schools separate, and, in my opinion, they'll collectively bargain with student-athletes. They will be employees and those are budgets in the $250 to $300 million range and then the rest of us will reconfigure where we are."

 

From Footballscoop.com:

https://www.footballscoop.com/2025/08/20/ad-for-state-flagship-university-predicts-college-football-super-division

[djphoenix]

I'll save everyone the suspense...... Wyoming

[Here for the Wins]

It’s inevitable.  Were chasing too many things that’ll lead down that path.

[MarkInAustin]

It will work so long as the athletes are still required to attend and pass classes on a reasonable course to graduate.

 

And I think it is inevitable and the only economically feasible solution.

 

If the athletes are actually students getting paid [graduate TAs are students getting paid - it's not an unknown concept] then it remains a college sport.  If there are no classroom requirements it becomes a sponsored pro sport.