And so it begins....
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They get college scholarships. In some instances that's worth more than $100,000, not to mention the free publicity, the fame, the chance to play in the NFL. Hope that clues you in.doogsinparadise said:Paying the players is the last stop in what has become a very long trip through the NCAA's hypocrisy regarding athlete eligibility, and is obviously the most extreme response. If you don't like that then what about allowing athletes the chance to make money off of their name and likeness, like other Americans. This whole libertarian "well they don't have to play" bullshit is childish. Neither do the coaches, yet they're making millions each year. No one is suggesting that the players should be making $30k a year, just that some portion of the billions of dollars they create for college sports be passed down.
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So you're one of the bitches that thinks we shouldn't get to play NCAA football on our Xboxes/playstations anymore? Thanks, fucking Grinch. That was a great game. I don't give a fuck if Laquintas Linebacker from UTEP who never made it to the NFL thinks he should get paid even though the dude that wears his number on the video game has dreads and not a bald head. You got paid with your school scholarship, now go get a real job and be happy you even made it on the video game.CollegeDoog said:
Fortunately O'bannon vs NCAA should solve that.Mosster47 said:doogsinparadise said:Paying the players is the last stop in what has become a very long trip through the NCAA's hypocrisy regarding athlete eligibility, and is obviously the most extreme response. If you don't like that then what about allowing athletes the chance to make money off of their name and likeness, like other Americans. This whole libertarian "well they don't have to play" bullshit is childish. Neither do the coaches, yet they're making millions each year. No one is suggesting that the players should be making $30k a year, just that some portion of the billions of dollars they create for college sports be passed down.
I've been saying this forever. Johnny Football is a multimillion dollar name and should be paid as such. The 3rd string guard at ATM is worth a scholarship, barely. If these kids can go out and make their own money then they should he able to.
Ridiculous how much money EA sports made off these guys. -
Damone is right you're dreaming if you think the feds will stand by while male football players get paid.
But let's pay the players and ride unicorns and give everyone a raise a free healthcare while we burn biomass. Yipee -
Or you could let all college athletes license their names. Do you at least see the merit in that?RaceBannon said:Damone is right you're dreaming if you think the feds will stand by while male football players get paid.
But let's pay the players and ride unicorns and give everyone a raise a free healthcare while we burn biomass. Yipee
Johnny football should already have millions in his pocket for endorsements, jersey sales, etc.
At the moment all that money goes to the NCAA or AD's. -
What do they do with that money? Does Mr. Burns keep it?
Colleges are ripping you and your generation off far more than they are ripping off football players. -
Of course they keep it. They earned it.RaceBannon said:What do they do with that money? Does Mr. Burns keep it?
Colleges are ripping you and your generation off far more than they are ripping off football players.
Let's not perpetuate the student athlete myth. Around half of football and basketball players don't even read at a high school level when they graduate college. -
Do you have any thoughts of your own? If you don't want to "perpetuate the student athlete myth" (great talking point as always) then take the game out of the university all together and the players can get paid what they are worth - nothing until they make the NFLCollegeDoog said:
Of course they keep it. They earned it.RaceBannon said:What do they do with that money? Does Mr. Burns keep it?
Colleges are ripping you and your generation off far more than they are ripping off football players.
Let's not perpetuate the student athlete myth. Around half of football and basketball players don't even read at a high school level when they graduate college.
Watched any A league baseball lately?
I asked where all this money that the universities are ripping the players off for goes to. The Hooker and Blow Center didn't build itself.
You don't even care that colleges have huge endowments that should make tuition free but instead they rig the price in cahoots with the college loan scam so you leave school a hundred grand in debt with a shit education.
Instead let's worry about guys getting a free education and the best training in the world and contacts that last a lifetime. They are fucking SLAVES -
It's free but it's hardly an education.RaceBannon said:
Do you have any thoughts of your own? If you don't want to "perpetuate the student athlete myth" (great talking point as always) then take the game out of the university all together and the players can get paid what they are worth - nothing until they make the NFLCollegeDoog said:
Of course they keep it. They earned it.RaceBannon said:What do they do with that money? Does Mr. Burns keep it?
Colleges are ripping you and your generation off far more than they are ripping off football players.
Let's not perpetuate the student athlete myth. Around half of football and basketball players don't even read at a high school level when they graduate college.
Watched any A league baseball lately?
I asked where all this money that the universities are ripping the players off for goes to. The Hooker and Blow Center didn't build itself.
You don't even care that colleges have huge endowments that should make tuition free but instead they rig the price in cahoots with the college loan scam so you leave school a hundred grand in debt with a shit education.
Instead let's worry about guys getting a free education and the best training in the world and contacts that last a lifetime. They are fucking SLAVES
And it's the best training in the world for the ~3% of D1 football players that actually play in the pros.
No one is saying they're slaves. Why shouldn't they be able to profit off their name?
Branding is a pretty low percentage of AD revenue. http://espn.go.com/ncaa/revenue
If players were to be paid, donations would likely skyrocket because the competition to get the best players will be even higher.
The economic studies find college football will be just fine.
The only issue is whether Mark Emmert will fuck it up, which, as we know, is likely.
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To get what you want you have to take it out of the colleges and the NCAA and away from Title 9. College football is what it is because of the college. Nobody gives a shit about college baseball and basketball is following.
I don't care either way, I just know you're dreaming if you think anyone will make any money in minor league football.
Title 9 and university presidents aren't going to allow football players to get paid unequally to other student athletes. Universities won't make them employees because of the liability. They will just drop the sport.
Like most of your ideas, it is unworkable in the real world. Just something else to whine and complain about.
Where is the money going? Still waiting on that answer. There has to be someone pocketing all these millions that universities are hiding to exploit these poor athletes and their free education and training.
Could it be the same folks that are exploiting ALL students with ridiculous tuition and killing debt thanks to the student loan scam? Oh wait, student loans are another great idea you love I'm sure.
The UW cost 180$ a quarter when I went there. See a correlation between the government subsidizing tuition and tuition skyrocketing? Probably not. That's a real issue. -
Nice point race. Here comes the pay - scale , gender equity and wage gap issues. Should Suzy the sorority sloot, who can barely walk her dimpled ass down the balance beam, make as much glue as the starting QB? I love the idea of unionizing. But there best be differing scales per sport.RaceBannon said:Pay the players? Sure as long as Suzy the softball player gets paid the same. Title 9. Not so easy now. Its not like that money is going in someone's pocket. Its funding the program and all the other programs.
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