B1G Commissioner Floats Expanded Playoff Idea to 28 Teams!

Tony Petitti is an unmitigated disaster. Needs to be impeached ASAP

Some guy said:

Good idea if only it were legal to cap it

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There's a hard cap right now for revenue sharing. $20.5M for 2025-26. Going up I think around 4% per year

That's what I was referring to with the cap, apologies was not referring to a cap on endorsements ("NIL" .. what it was supposed to be)

Zeppelin Gopher said:

Tony Petitti is an unmitigated disaster. Needs to be impeached ASAP

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As long as eyeballs keep watching I think this could only to happen if the players walked out, and I don’t see that happening. Fans have totally checked out of pushing for any preservation of what was. The NCAA, conferences, and schools have already begun their PR and legislative offensive pitting the football players interests against the non-revenue sports.

My opinion is once amateurism was abandoned, you can’t go halfway. The players and their representation (anyone, anyone?) should be calling the shots, not Pettiti. They are still being used, just slightly less so.

They are going to kill the golden goose.

GopherGrit said:

There's a hard cap right now for revenue sharing. $20.5M for 2025-26. Going up I think around 4% per year

That's what I was referring to with the cap, apologies was not referring to a cap on endorsements ("NIL" .. what it was supposed to be)

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Got it

I’m still not sure that cap will hold up long term

GopherGrit said:

"NIL" in any sense outside bonafide endorsement deals by for-profit companies actually selling a product or providing an actual service, should be gutted. Sorry if that ruffles some feathers, but that's how I feel about that.

Bring all that stuff in-house, let the schools run it, and put a hard cap on it.

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Here’s the deal: the schools don’t want that in house. They want it farmed out to third, fourth and fifth parties. They like the current model where the don’t pay athletes as employees. But to keep that model, they have to accept that the NIL model is the default alternative. Sure, it presents a load of problems and any restrictions put on it will likely be successfully challenged in court, but at least THEY aren’t shelling out the money… the donors are.