I like the idea of reform in that it could lead to more football.
Right now, you have athletes who pretend to be college students, who after they graduate are discarded like used facial tissues, with only a tiny minority becoming professionals. The rest are condemned to minimum wage jobs after losing four productive years with no pay at all.
Instead, universities should hire them as athletes to represent the school playing football, as “minor league” teams that are affiliated with professional teams. They are not students and can have an entire career as a minor leaguer, as professional athletes, earning enough to live on and even do well with a school sponsored endowment investment retirement fund.
This would cost the universities a lot of “free money” they get from the sweat and injuries of their athletes, which is very unfair if you think about it. If an athlete results in a university making several hundred thousand dollars, then he should get something out of the deal.
And spare us all the crocodile tears of “NCAA rules” and “the spirit of amateur sports”, which is hooey and they know it. They get all the money and the ex-athlete gets to live as a cripple on skid row for the rest of their life isn’t very fair.
No one is making them play football, and they know the physical risks. Many wouldn’t be in college if it was not for football. They can choose to become educated or not.