Save College Football
Posted on AllSides April 30th, 2024
From The Right
This past weekend, sports fans across America cheered the NFL Draft as the best college football players in America embraced their new status as rising professionals. But for many of these players, they are already effectively pro athletes. Most of them are already paid to play; a few of them earn giant sums of NIL, “name, image, and likeness” packages. The actual pro league, the NFL, thrives. TV ratings soar, fantasy football and sports gambling become deeply ingrained in American culture, and even the springtime draft creates a football frenzy....