I Predicted the Future of College Football a Year ago

2:59 Why horns down, you’re from Illinois

Unc, I had to make a video somewhat touching on this myself. Preciate the inspiration!

Oh, but now that I see your caption my snarky reply may appear to come from a different place- to be clear, I despise the NCAA and all the participating entities they oversee. The exploitation is undeniable. I'm still convinced it secretly means

NCAA:
N – No
C – Compensation for
A – African
A – Americans

But I can expand on that for more time than I have rn. The NFL is worse. That said, apologies if the last comment undermined your message, not my intent. I mean, I stand by what I said, just providing context.

Yup brother you killed this video

This is a good video but it desperately needs a pt. 2 to talk about TV Networks. ESPN is the bulwark propping up the SEC and will continue to keep the conference in play, regardless of how great a school's NIL structure is. Moreover, coaches, legacy, and facilities are still major factors in deciding where to play. Players will be willing to take a "pay cut" if they know they're going to a school with a proven record of sending people to the NFL and performing well in season. The "death" of the SEC is also partially linked to the lack of elite coaches they currently possess. Kirby is the only SEC head coach who has played in a national championship. Meanwhile, you have coaches like Ryan Day, Marcus Freeman, Curt Cignetti, Dan Lanning, etc. in the B1G/Midwest.

The way I read the history books, rich, white guys had large demands for physical labor, and they required that the labor be free. (Seriously, what kind of snake thinks this way?) Granted, slavery is an American sin, not simply a southern one, but its lifeblood was in the south. Ever since that went away, when it was mandated that Black people were no longer property by rights, those rich men have sought to continue their history of free, Black labor. The subtext in Sinners really hits hard with this idea, and in truth, is the fundamental meaning behind the film. I understand why ownership of the film was so important to Coogler. It's his movie.

It's not woke. It's the truth. History isn't made false because it's not comfortable. I'm not woke. I've simply studied history. Black exploitation is not just a southern thing, but again, its soul was nourished there, and the resentment towards Black people because they had the nerve to demand they be treated like human beings is easy to observe if you look.

College football has just been another lap around the same cycle – dangle a carrot in front of young, Black men. Then take away their agency as they are forced to work for you in order to get what they want. I'm glad that agency is finally being given to these young men. Here's to hoping that there is a shift in policy to prevent them from being exploited further, and this goes for all young athletes.

Okay, I went to the University of Tennessee and Arian Foster started the year I graduated. Foster is full of crap. Those players got better living accommodations on campus and better food than the rest of us at Gibbs Hall which was specifically for the male athletes. This isn't to discredit NIL, it's just to say, come the f on! The players at UT were treated really well. If they were going hungry, it's because they chose to live broke off campus, not because the school didn't make the best accommodations on campus specifically for them.

Couldn't have nailed this any harder. Well done.

Let’s go Hoosiers!

I'm not very woke but you don't need to be woke to believe that college athletes deserve as many opportunities as college english majors to go to school where they want or the be professionals in their field. No one's asking Jennifer Lawrence to return her Oscar because she turned pro too young.

5:30 its funny to hear about SMU be labeled as upstarts considering they were a powerhouse until the NCAA gave them the Death Penalty that basically ended the program for 40 years

One thing I wonder about is the continuing willingness of non-southern rich people to bankroll football. Obviously we see the interest now, but unless there's a ROI, northern money is more about money, if you will. Down south, what's Ben Bordelon going to blow his money on if not LSU?

Excellent. Better than ESPN or 60 Minutes.

Except you didn't call it. The top 10 in NIL are majority southern schools (80 percent). The top 3 recruiting were Texas, Bama and Georgia.

12:06 ayoooooo unc you good?😂😂

All the Texas schools got plenty of money

Some players are making up to $6 million a year now. Separate sports from the collees and universities. NIL has turned "College" sports has turned into anoher pro league.

If NIL is the reason Southern schools aren't dominating anymore then why are they still dominating the recruiting rankings?

It's also true that prior to about 2006/2007 the SEC was not viewed as the best conference by far. In 2006 people suggested Ohio State and Michigan needed to play twice instead of letting Florida have a crack at the winner of the first meeting. Florida got its chance and walloped Ohio State and then a different SEC school did the same thing the next year. The SEC went on to win the vast majority of the next 16 national championships with a few of them instead going to ACC schools in the same shared footprint of the SEC. So if NIL not existing was what boosted the SEC then why wasn't the SEC dominating before 2006? Also nothing was stopping non-Southern schools from paying players or otherwise giving out benefits that were against the rules and many not only did but got caught doing it such as USC and Ohio State (two non-Southern blue bloods).

It's also worth pointing out that two of the final four teams this year spend about half of what the major blue bloods spend in NIL money.

Excellent vid. Loved the point about socialism in the NFL!

19:00 ive seen this argument when people talk about walmart, but its not socialism if it isn't coerced through force by the state. Also, the south being poorer despite having more welfare goes to show welfare doesn't necessarily = wealth and when you look at family economics, welfare often incentivizes poor behavior for long-term wealth growth on a micro and macro scale.