NCAA football is professional football, tax it!

Paid players, $60 million contracts for coaches and skipping bowl games not worth their time, NCAA football programs are not too different from professional sports franchises.

By

Sports

December 18, 2025 - 2:24 PM

Shown here is Iola Register sports editor Jimmy Potts. Photo by Richard Luken / Iola Register

A lot of big business decisions are being made for what is supposed to be an amateur endeavor: College sports.

And in the fallout of multiple NCAA football teams rejecting bids to lower bowls, it’s time to discuss whether the NCAA is a professional sports league.

The recent decisions made by Notre Dame, Iowa State and K-State prove college football is no longer about the love of the game or bettering athletes’ lives through education. It’s about money, business decisions and, just like any business, it’s time colleges pay taxes on their earnings from…

Related