FinanceFrog
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How free the market is remains to be seen. The reality is that a lot of these schools have MASSIVE head starts due to enormous government subsidies. They're large, public schools and that provides a clear competitive advantage that most schools don't have. That doesn't make the market less free, but it certainly makes it less competitive and I don't think it will take long for that gap to widen to such an extent that most FBS schools don't try to compete.
I really think we could see a return to old school college football at a lot of major universities within a decade. I suspect they would still be televised, but all the money and corruption left to the small handful play professional football.
sure, schools have headstarts with their size and capital - just like individuals in the real world. you think a trust fund kid is on a level playing field with a lower class kid? a free market doesn’t mean all players are equal, that’s communism. a free market is simply that participants have the freedom to act how they see fit.