The current day and age of college athletics is one of absolute chaos.
From NIL being used as a recruiting tool to the transfer portal, things look very different than they did just a few short years ago. Moving to a more professional model seems to be the inevitable reality of where things are headed.
College GameDay host and Alabama alumnus Rece Davis believes making the collegiate players full-fledged professionals is the only way to end the chaos.
“So what we need is just what every other business has. It’s a framework,” Davis said via On3. “And when you have that, you have employers and employees at the end of the day. It’s what they are. Right now, when you’re making millions, when you’re paying or trying to pay a quarterback $2.4 million and he says, ‘No,’ that’s an employee-employer relationship. That’s what it is.”
Davis made it very clear he is not against players profiting.
“I don’t like the word guard rails, because that implies that everybody, including the players, are somehow out of control trying to get money when they’re just getting in the business of exercising their rights in the market, competitive commerce,” continued Davis. “And there’s nothing wrong with that.”
“Most are for the players making money, and after a century of them not being paid as well as many of them not being good enough to go pro, it’s understandable why players seek their maximum value just as anyone else would.”
Michael Brauner is a Senior Sports Analyst and Contributing Writer for Yellowhammer News. You can follow him on Twitter @MBraunerWNSP and hear him every weekday morning from 6 to 9 a.m. on “The Opening Kickoff” on WNSP-FM 105.5, available free online.
