[OutsiderFan]

The bifurcation of "revenue" and "non-revenue" sports as it relates to athlete compensation, isn't predicated on sports that create revenue vs. ones that don't, as much as it is the motivation of those playing revenue sports to get a piece of the pie. Non-revenue sport athletes in the main are just grateful they can play college sports, especially those on scholarship. They aren't asking to be paid because their sports are not exploiting them, as much as the other way around.

My guess is the way this goes would be courts, slowly getting universities to agree on some revenue split between schools and labor when revenue thresholds reach a certain amount. And my further guess is ultimately we will have professional college sports and amateur college sports in some form or fashion. 

The passion I used to have for Cal and Stanford's revenue sports has largely been extinguished just based on the transfer rule liberation and NIL money laundering.  It's professional sports masquerading as amateur, and insulting my intelligence along the way. I'd rather put my passions into professional sports that don't pretend to be something they are not. I will still appreciate and be entertained by the top pro college sports competitions from a clinical perspective, but it will no longer make emotional investments in the teams on a day in and day out basis.

[OutsiderFan]

The bifurcation of "revenue" and "non-revenue" sports as it relates to athlete compensation, isn't predicated on sports that create revenue vs. ones that don't, as much as it is the motivation of those playing revenue sports to get a piece of the pie. Non-revenue sport athletes in the main are just grateful they can play college sports, especially those on scholarship. They aren't asking to be paid because their sports are not exploiting them, as much as the other way around.

My guess is the way this goes would be courts, slowly getting universities to agree on some revenue split between schools and labor when revenue thresholds reach a certain amount. And my further guess is ultimately we will have professional college sports and amateur college sports in some form or fashion. 

The passion I used to have for Cal and Stanford's revenue sports has largely been extinguished just based on the transfer rule liberation and NIL money laundering.  It's professional sports masquerading as amateur, and insulting my intelligence along the way. I'd rather put my passions into professional sports that don't pretend to be something they are not. I will still appreciate and be entertained by the top pro college sports competitions from a clinical perspective, but it will no longer make emotional investments in the teams on a day in and day out basis.