OPINION:
College football’s NIL era has turned into a bidding war with no rules, no caps and no end in sight.
Tim Constantine and David Bozell debate whether President Trump should step in the way Teddy Roosevelt once did to save the sport — plus, a new study on CTE raises the question of whether Washington should get involved in player safety too.
Collegiate sports, the NCAA particularly when we look at football, it’s the wild, wild west right now. Whoever is the high bidder every year is getting the students. And next year, if I went to Alabama last year, I might go to Louisiana State, next year, doesn’t matter. They’re rivals. They’re paying me more money. There are no controls. There’s no rules. There’s no spending caps. There’s nothing. The government, the Congress, is considering some things with this. Should the government be involved?
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