Trenton Luera (YouTuber) reacts to reports that sports executives are proposing an 80-team "Super League" in college football. He argues this would concentrate revenue among the top programs (roughly the Power 4 conferences), shift college athletics toward a professional-league model, and while he supports fair pay for players he is concerned about the broader negative effects on the college-sports ecosystem.
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College football is cooked. If you haven't seen the recent news, apparently a bunch of sports executives got together and they're trying to form a 80 team Super League in college football. And I don't know about you, but I do not think this is good. But sadly, it's probably the way that the league is trending. But essentially this new model is going to allow them to pay players and just really focus on where a lot of the money is at. I mean, just like the NFL and every other sports league comes together and they figure out, okay, hey, this is our current revenue, this is what we're going to give to the players. And then the players also have their own own association where people bargain for them and everything like that. There's big negotiations that go on. The same is going to happen at the college football level. They're going to just take the top 80 teams, essentially the Power 4 conferences, because that's where most of the revenue comes from. Obviously. Now, I don't know about you, I'm not necessarily happy about this. This is going to completely turn everything upside down. I'm definitely all for players to get paid and get paid fairly, but they're going to completely shift the model of college athletics and to.