> but for the revenue sports (football, basketball, hockey, baseball)

I think that list is two items too long.

There is a great quote from Michael Lewis:

"If hedge funds could buy universities and then split them up so that the HF keeps the sports programs and they sell off the academic departments, they would most definitely do that"

Not the first time i see such comparison being made, but it is the first time I see someone go into so much detail about it — great read.

I was surprised at how much sense this made

This reads as if it were written by a LLM.

I thoroughly enjoyed this read

A profoundly wise and great article.

My son is a big kid and is playing high school football. It was not on our radar, so we have begun to navigate these kinds of questions. Like - do you want to play at the next level? What do you even need to do if you would like to? But also the realization of how much money is made off of these kids and how cruel and unforgiving it can be.

I’m not sure how or when, but it seems inevitable that college sports will be split off into club teams or some kind of minor leagues.

For the big sports like football, the college part seems barely relevant to the sport, it’s mostly just a logo and color scheme. The players don’t even go to most classes, it’s online, and there are full-time tutors assisting with every assignment. When they do have to physically attend class, someone drives them there on a golf cart, in order to minimize time spent on academic work. It’s not at all a normal college experience.