[BostonCard]

Duke is suing to keep him from transferring.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/nc...268559007/

At this point, where you have multi-year contracts, there is now no difference from professional football.

BC

Sure there is - there are many!

• No collective bargaining agreement
  
• "NIL Agents," many of whom are family members, taking 20+% (vs. 3-5%) and giving barely-legal adults awful advice because there is no fiduciary standard
  
• Continued adherence to academic calendars (...somehow)
  
• Professional football actually has restrictions on free agency
  

Appreciate your thoughts.  I would say that if the ones you list, only the adherence to an academic calendar is an intrinsic differentiator.  The NFL has collective bargaining agreements, but they didn’t prior to 1968; you would not argue that the league only became professional with the first CBA.  Likewise agents preying on clients is as old as sliced bread.  The differences have arisen from the rapid pace of professionalization; they don’t make college not a pro league.

The other one to add to your list is that college still clings to the idea of eligibility, which is not a thing in the pros.  As long as age hasn’t stolen your ability to produce, you can keep playing in the NFL. 

But of course recent lawsuits could chip away at this distinction.

BC

[BostonCard]

Duke is suing to keep him from transferring.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/nc...268559007/

At this point, where you have multi-year contracts, there is now no difference from professional football.

BC

Sure there is - there are many!

• No collective bargaining agreement
  
• "NIL Agents," many of whom are family members, taking 20+% (vs. 3-5%) and giving barely-legal adults awful advice because there is no fiduciary standard
  
• Continued adherence to academic calendars (...somehow)
  
• Professional football actually has restrictions on free agency
  

Appreciate your thoughts.  I would say that if the ones you list, only the adherence to an academic calendar is an intrinsic differentiator.  The NFL has collective bargaining agreements, but they didn’t prior to 1968; you would not argue that the league only became professional with the first CBA.  Likewise agents preying on clients is as old as sliced bread.  The differences have arisen from the rapid pace of professionalization; they don’t make college not a pro league.

The other one to add to your list is that college still clings to the idea of eligibility, which is not a thing in the pros.  As long as age hasn’t stolen your ability to produce, you can keep playing in the NFL. 

But of course recent lawsuits could chip away at this distinction.

BC