'College GameDay' Host Says There's Only 1 Fix To College Sports

College sports are in an interesting period of transition right now as athletes get paid and football moves towards more of an NFL model.

The NCAA has simultaneously been trying to hold onto its old ways while ushering in NIL compensation and its currently failing at both. And ESPN's Rece Davis believes its time for CFB to have its "come-to-Jesus moment" and officially make student-athletes collectively-bargained employees.

"I've been against players being employees, because I said for a long time, and perhaps erroneously so, that universities were so ill-equipped to sometimes run their own athletic departments— not that the athletic directors don't do a good job. I don't mean that, but just from a whole legal Employee Negotiations union, they were ill-equipped to do so, and therefore it wasn't a good idea," Davis said on the "College GameDay Podcast."

"I now believe it's really the only answer, because you have to have some type of parameters. And I don't like the word 'guard rails,'" he added. "Because that implies that everybody's, including the players, are somehow out of control trying to get money when they're just getting in the business of exercising their rights in the market, competitive commerce. And there's nothing wrong with that."

Nico Iamaleava's situation appeared to open a lot of eyes in the sports media world. And now it's about finding the right framework for how to move forward.

"Right now, when you're making millions, when you're paying or trying to pay a quarterback $2.4 million and he says, 'No,' that's an employee-employer relationship. That's what it is," the "GameDay" host continued. "... It's all in the weeds. The other sports are worth protecting and I sort of fall on the side they can protect all of them, if they want to."