This is just part of the interview below, but completely agree with his statements. The NCAA was late to this game, and they just flew by the seat of their pants and made these rules without an ounce of logic or thought. He is right that college sports are not in a healthy spot. What did Caleb Williams get from boosters last year, $6 million? If you want a decent QB in the portal, it would cost what $2-$4 million? We lost out on Pack three years ago, because he got $800K for 2 years, which almost seems cheap now.
This current model cannot be sustained. Even though this money in college athletics is coming from tv rights and other things, it is really coming from the fans. That is why you have to have all of these streaming services to watch every game, if you want to watch every game. If you want to attend games, ticket prices are going to continue to soar. Isn't Tennessee raising football tickets 10% to pay for student athlete's salaries so to speak?
Bennett, 55, has long bemoaned the direction of college athletics and increased emphasis on the transfer portal and name, image and likeness.
"I think it's right for student-athletes to receive revenue. Please don't mistake me," he said Friday. "The game and college athletics is not in a healthy spot. It's not. And there needs to be change, and it's not going to go back. I think I was equipped to do the job here the old way. That's who I am.
"It's going to be closer to a professional model. There's got to be collective bargaining. There has to be a restriction on the salary pool. There has to be transfer regulation restrictions. There has to be some limits on the agent involvement to these young guys. ... And I worry a lot about the mental health of the student-athletes as all this stuff comes down."
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