Yahoo Sports national columnist Dan Wetzel and senior college sports reporter Ross Dellenger join Sports Illustrated’s Pat Forde to discuss the future impact of a new revenue sharing system in college football. Hear the full conversation on the “College Football Enquirer” podcast - and subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube or wherever you listen.

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Ok, it's time for some money moves presented by Invesco QQQ, the official ETF of the NCAA.

We talked a little sports business here.

What we had last week was National Signing Day, or whatever they're calling it now, with the non-revenue sports, if you will, although that includes basketball and things like that, so I don't even know if that's that.

Not football.

Football is is isn't until December.

However, we get a model, an idea of how some of these Player compensation deals will work in the new revenue sharing.

System that is coming.

Players are signing collective agreements too, right?

Because you have to get paid up until July 1, right?

Cause the rev share doesn't start until July 1.

So you'll see next month football players signed potentially these rev share agreements in collective agreements.

Collective agreements going to June 30th in, in the, the rev share agreements starting July 1.

So that's kind of like the situation how some are handling it.

Others are not sending out the rev share agreements at all.

They are letting their collective handle it.

And maybe there's an assignment clause or something in the collective contract that is, that is assigns that contract on July 1 to schools and then schools begin paying it, uh, or a school just negotiates a deal with the athletes on July 1, right?

Or, or at a later date, uh, for July 1.

So, It's, um, it's a murky time for sure.

Um, and some of the, the comments uh from administrators in that story that posted last week, you know, like Ross Bjork at Ohio State, right, we're building, we're about to land the plane, but we're still building it.

The senior class right now is like the NFL draft class that had Sam Bradford, as I think he was the last, um.

rookie who got number one pick overall, got to negotiate his like an open-ended contract, and he signed like an $86 million deal or something like that, or 7, I don't know, like $50 million guaranteed, and the NFL was changing that cause they were spending so much money on these QBs that turned out to be Sam Bradford and not on proven, you know, and so the players association was like enough with this.

And now you have a rookie salary scale, which changed the way the NFL teams are constructed, right?

The best thing you can have is a great quarterback on a rookie salary scale, cause you could spend that money on all these other players.

So this is like this little window, you better be smart on it.

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