I don't think there was anything wrong at all with anything Shaw said there.
In fact, what he's saying has been the legitimate fear of the PTB regarding college football almost from day one.
Side note here: I'm reading five different books at once right now about the history of each conference (technically six, but I read the SEC one years ago). What's hilarious is that almost all of the EXACT SAME PROBLEMS people are complaining about today were issues in the 1890s, too.
The issues MOSTLY have not changed hardly at all.
Here's one I found amusing.
Y'all know how stuck up the Ivy League can be about stuff. Walter Camp, the man credited with inventing football, was a Yale coach. What was truly hilarious was to read about how the faculty and campus powers were "concerned" about football and what it was doing to their young men's health (and to be fair, it was far closer to actual Civil War combat back then prior to Teddy Roosevelt telling them to clean it up or ban it), but Camp was keeping receipts of how much money he was pocketing from the whole thing.
And guess what? The faculty found out about it and.....wanted their cut of the loot.
The entire saga of college football can be summarized:
Something happens >>>>>> people complain >>>>> they get self-righteous>>>>> they find how much money is coming in >>>>>> they demand "our fair share" of the money from a sport they insist is rotten to the core.
I mean, folks, this is Mafioso stuff through and through.
The only real difference in the TV deals of the 1950s and Yale in the 1890s and the players today is that we finally had a court say that the EMPLOYEES who actually take the risk get the money rather than the sideline watchers (many of whom insist they hate the sport) or so-called enforcement staff of the NCAA.
So much of what I'm reading sounds like it was ripped right out of today's online news.
Ecclesiastes 1
New International Version
Everything Is Meaningless
1 The words of the Teacher,[
a] son of David, king in Jerusalem:
2 “Meaningless! Meaningless!”
says the Teacher.
“Utterly meaningless!
Everything is meaningless.”
3 What do people gain from all their labors
at which they toil under the sun?
4 Generations come and generations go,
but the earth remains forever.
5 The sun rises and the sun sets,
and hurries back to where it rises.
6 The wind blows to the south
and turns to the north;
round and round it goes,
ever returning on its course.
7 All streams flow into the sea,
yet the sea is never full.
To the place the streams come from,
there they return again.
8 All things are wearisome,
more than one can say.
The eye never has enough of seeing,
nor the ear its fill of hearing.
9 What has been will be again,
what has been done will be done again;
there is nothing new under the sun.
10 Is there anything of which one can say,
“Look! This is something new”?
It was here already, long ago;
it was here before our time.
11 No one remembers the former generations,
and even those yet to come
will not be remembered
by those who follow them.
