Mark Emmert: Paying NCAA athletes is "silly"
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The amount of money some people are calling for is way over the top. I understand kicking some extra spending money their way, but $2k per month, as I've seen calls for, is just being stupid. They have all their critical expenses paid. They need some extra money for drinking and other entertainment, not a full time cocaine habit hookers.
Give them $500...maybe $1000 extra tops. That's way more than a student needs to pay for keg cups and bang a few sorority chicks. The smart ones would save a chunk of that every month and be able to buy a car with the savings by their second year in the program. -
How much do you make? Let us know and we can all judge if you're over or under paid and if you're managing it wisely. And some point, we can all say "I think chuck makes plenty to meet his needs"chuck said:The amount of money some people are calling for is way over the top. I understand kicking some extra spending money their way, but $2k per month, as I've seen calls for, is just being stupid. They have all their critical expenses paid. They need some extra money for drinking and other entertainment, not a full time cocaine habit hookers.
Give them $500...maybe $1000 extra tops. That's way more than a student needs to pay for keg cups and bang a few sorority chicks. The smart ones would save a chunk of that every month and be able to buy a car with the savings by their second year in the program. -
Someone on DM (I'm not paying for it!) suggested putting it on their Husky Card so they can't spend it frivolously. I think that's a good idea.chuck said:The amount of money some people are calling for is way over the top. I understand kicking some extra spending money their way, but $2k per month, as I've seen calls for, is just being stupid. They have all their critical expenses paid. They need some extra money for drinking and other entertainment, not a full time cocaine habit hookers.
Give them $500...maybe $1000 extra tops. That's way more than a student needs to pay for keg cups and bang a few sorority chicks. The smart ones would save a chunk of that every month and be able to buy a car with the savings by their second year in the program.
The biggest obatacle will probably be the p.c./lesbian types who insist the carpet munchers who make 16 errors per game get equal treatment, even though they generate zero revenue
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We're talking about entertainment money here, not basic needs. How much do you think is reasonable?MikeDamone said:
How much do you make? Let us know and we can all judge if you're over or under paid and if you're managing it wisely. And some point, we can all say "I think chuck makes plenty to meet his needs"chuck said:The amount of money some people are calling for is way over the top. I understand kicking some extra spending money their way, but $2k per month, as I've seen calls for, is just being stupid. They have all their critical expenses paid. They need some extra money for drinking and other entertainment, not a full time cocaine habit hookers.
Give them $500...maybe $1000 extra tops. That's way more than a student needs to pay for keg cups and bang a few sorority chicks. The smart ones would save a chunk of that every month and be able to buy a car with the savings by their second year in the program.
I made it through college on well below $1000 per month. That covered my rent, food, drinking money, and car insurance with some to spare. That was in the early 90s and costs have certainly gone up, but these guys already have the big expenses covered. -
umm.... they already get into football games for free, right?
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Whatever the market will pay for their skills is what is reasonable. Right now, that appears to be tuition, housing, food, books, fees, etc.chuck said:
We're talking about entertainment money here, not basic needs. How much do you think is reasonable?MikeDamone said:
How much do you make? Let us know and we can all judge if you're over or under paid and if you're managing it wisely. And some point, we can all say "I think chuck makes plenty to meet his needs"chuck said:The amount of money some people are calling for is way over the top. I understand kicking some extra spending money their way, but $2k per month, as I've seen calls for, is just being stupid. They have all their critical expenses paid. They need some extra money for drinking and other entertainment, not a full time cocaine habit hookers.
Give them $500...maybe $1000 extra tops. That's way more than a student needs to pay for keg cups and bang a few sorority chicks. The smart ones would save a chunk of that every month and be able to buy a car with the savings by their second year in the program.
I made it through college on well below $1000 per month. That covered my rent, food, drinking money, and car insurance with some to spare. That was in the early 90s and costs have certainly gone up, but these guys already have the big expenses covered. -
If the softball player shouldn't get paid because they don't generate revenue, should the 3rd string football player make less than the marquee heisman trophy candidate? Seems reasonable.Fire_Marshall_Bill said:
Someone on DM (I'm not paying for it!) suggested putting it on their Husky Card so they can't spend it frivolously. I think that's a good idea.chuck said:The amount of money some people are calling for is way over the top. I understand kicking some extra spending money their way, but $2k per month, as I've seen calls for, is just being stupid. They have all their critical expenses paid. They need some extra money for drinking and other entertainment, not a full time cocaine habit hookers.
Give them $500...maybe $1000 extra tops. That's way more than a student needs to pay for keg cups and bang a few sorority chicks. The smart ones would save a chunk of that every month and be able to buy a car with the savings by their second year in the program.
The biggest obatacle will probably be the p.c./lesbian types who insist the carpet munchers who make 16 errors per game get equal treatment, even though they generate zero revenue -
Here's a thought for assholes to mull over: Let the student-athletes work as they wish at a job of their choosing for whatever their labor or presence on the job is worth. This would give student-athletes the same rights to work when and where and how they choose as non-athlete human beings in the general student population. What business is it of the NCAA to decide what the fuck a student athlete does in his or her free time?chuck said:The amount of money some people are calling for is way over the top. I understand kicking some extra spending money their way, but $2k per month, as I've seen calls for, is just being stupid. They have all their critical expenses paid. They need some extra money for drinking and other entertainment, not a full time cocaine habit hookers.
As most everybody familiar with this issue is aware, what the NCAA currently allows in the way of tuition, books, lodging, and subsistence is not enough for the average young American to live a college life on without some help from home (parents or guardians). Many collegiate athletes who play football and basketball don't have such sources of support, so they get what they need or want for date money, new clothes, off-campus meals, local transportation, entertainment, etc from friends, often from their teammate's parents or guardians or others who can afford it.
As for the NCAA, everybody's talking around the real issue. The NCAA has for 50-60 years been overboard paranoid about student-athletes in the more popular sports gaining some advantage over competitors through their own working or celebrity value. There would be all kinds of ways for the bigger schools with better football or basketball programs to offer their student-athletes better paying part-time jobs when in school and sponsorship situations when not.
God forbid!! Competition between campuses and athletic programs on the fields and courts of America for something other than just the fucking scoreboard! An important part of the American way and for any free society that the NCAA finds impossible to swallow. The student-athletes no matter who they are or where they come from...... have rights and its way past time for all to recover those rights. We should all regardless of how fast we can run or high we can jump be allowed to get whatever money we need or want from any source of our choosing and fuck the Draconian NCAA.
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Tailgater L, DR
But I did read your thesis sentence, and I agree. The NCAA is too worried about kids getting paid for work they're not doing, so they've kept them from having jerbs at all. Massive overstep. -
Good god. A pro-capitalist libertarian-esque post from the old man. Maybe there is still hope for him. Pretty much agree with your thoughts here.Tailgater said:
Here's a thought for assholes to mull over: Let the student-athletes work as they wish at a job of their choosing for whatever their labor or presence on the job is worth. This would give student-athletes the same rights to work when and where and how they choose as non-athlete human beings in the general student population. What business is it of the NCAA to decide what the fuck a student athlete does in his or her free time?chuck said:The amount of money some people are calling for is way over the top. I understand kicking some extra spending money their way, but $2k per month, as I've seen calls for, is just being stupid. They have all their critical expenses paid. They need some extra money for drinking and other entertainment, not a full time cocaine habit hookers.
As most everybody familiar with this issue is aware, what the NCAA currently allows in the way of tuition, books, lodging, and subsistence is not enough for the average young American to live a college life on without some help from home (parents or guardians). Many collegiate athletes who play football and basketball don't have such sources of support, so they get what they need or want for date money, new clothes, off-campus meals, local transportation, entertainment, etc from friends, often from their teammate's parents or guardians or others who can afford it.
As for the NCAA, everybody's talking around the real issue. The NCAA has for 50-60 years been overboard paranoid about student-athletes in the more popular sports gaining some advantage over competitors through their own working or celebrity value. There would be all kinds of ways for the bigger schools with better football or basketball programs to offer their student-athletes better paying part-time jobs when in school and sponsorship situations when not.
God forbid!! Competition between campuses and athletic programs on the fields and courts of America for something other than just the fucking scoreboard! An important part of the American way and for any free society that the NCAA finds impossible to swallow. The student-athletes no matter who they are or where they come from...... have rights and its way past time for all to recover those rights. We should all regardless of how fast we can run or high we can jump be allowed to get whatever money we need or want from any source of our choosing and fuck the Draconian NCAA.
Now fuck off
