PREDICTION: That $2.8 billion settlement between NCAA and college players will effectively professionalize college sports, especially football. The deal includes revenue-sharing between the schools and players, but it won’t be long before the schools will be able to force revenue sharing with the players on their merchandise, commercials and appearance revenues. That will in turn pressure schools to drop eligibility limits, thus enabling popular (i.e. profitable) players to remain “enrolled” for years after their undergraduate “work” is completed in order to keep playing and producing revenue.

Anybody else remember the days when the college all-stars played the NFL champion each year?