The Maxwell Club NFL Coach of the Year of 2013 and the current head coach of UCLA, Chip Kelly, have recently shed light on the problems plaguing college football.
Among the concerning issues, one of the primary subjects is being able to compensate the players. According to Awful Announcing, the head coach has expressed himself regarding the issue.
I think we can all agree that college football is flawed right now.
The game we love has become very complicated.
Well, #UCLA head coach Chip Kelly has answers.
And I think the powers that be should listen to him.
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— Jay Tust (@KTVBSportsGuy) December 16, 2023
He shared how the programs could use some enhancement and also outlined the worries surrounding the problems the conference is currently facing.
Kelly, who coached the Philadelphia Eagles and the San Francisco 49ers in 2016 and 2016, expressed, “Not that I’ve really thought about this. Not that I’ve spent a lot of time on this. But I think that if you went together collectively as a group and said there’s 132 teams and we all share the same TV contract so that the Mountain West doesn’t have one and the Sun Belt doesn’t have another.
“SEC has one and they have another, that we all go together. That’s a lot of games and there’s a lot of people in the TV world that would go through it. You can sponsor each one. Instead of calling it Group of Five or Power Five, you can call is Amazon, Nike — bid that out to things.”
“You know, a lot of different things, but I think if we still do the same thing and take all that money, then I would do this and I think this needs to be done — that money now needs to be shared with the student-athletes, and there needs to be revenue sharing and the players should get paid and you get rid of NLI and the schools should be paying the players cuz the players are what the product is, and the fact that they don’t get paid is really the biggest travesty.”
Many problems at present are hounding the scenario of college football and Kelly has raised some important concerns.
