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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

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

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

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.