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Nate Robinson Offered $$$

https://www.si.com/college-football/2018/02/28/nate-robinson-washington-huskies-booster-money?utm_campaign=sinow&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_medium=social&xid=socialflow_twitter_si

Not sure if this is out here already since the thread titles on this site rarely describe what threads are actually about, so fuck your 53 seconds.
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  • RaceBannon
    RaceBannon Member, Moderator, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 113,805 Founders Club
    “When they fired Rick Neuheisel my freshman year that made it easy for me to make my decision to quit and go play basketball, which I wanted to do anyway,” Robinson explained. “For my three years at UW, I had a booster offer me $100,000 per year to come back and play football because they needed Nate Robinson back on the football field because we weren’t winning any games, it wasn’t exciting. It was crazy, we went through a dark age at the University of Washington. When Tyrone Willingham was the coach years later, we didn’t win not one game. It was just crazy.
  • RaceBannon
    RaceBannon Member, Moderator, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 113,805 Founders Club
  • Fire_Marshall_Bill
    Fire_Marshall_Bill Member Posts: 25,606 Standard Supporter
    Just pay the damn players. End the ridiculous charade. Mediocre coaches make 2.75 million a year. These guys don't deserve $125,000?

    Don't pay the tennis, volleyball and bi-sexual tranny handball players.
  • pat_hm
    pat_hm Member Posts: 941
    we USED to care about football..
  • UWhuskytskeet
    UWhuskytskeet Member Posts: 7,113

    Just pay the damn players. End the ridiculous charade. Mediocre coaches make 2.75 million a year. These guys don't deserve $125,000?

    Don't pay the tennis, volleyball and bi-sexual tranny handball players.

    Pay one you have to pay them all over all sports the same amount. Same pay scale at every school too

    which makes them employees. Not going to happen
    Do all athletes get the stipend football players get?
  • dnc
    dnc Member Posts: 56,839

    Just pay the damn players. End the ridiculous charade. Mediocre coaches make 2.75 million a year. These guys don't deserve $125,000?

    Don't pay the tennis, volleyball and bi-sexual tranny handball players.

    Pay one you have to pay them all over all sports the same amount. Same pay scale at every school too

    which makes them employees. Not going to happen
    No you don't
  • RaceBannon
    RaceBannon Member, Moderator, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 113,805 Founders Club

    Just pay the damn players. End the ridiculous charade. Mediocre coaches make 2.75 million a year. These guys don't deserve $125,000?

    Don't pay the tennis, volleyball and bi-sexual tranny handball players.

    Pay one you have to pay them all over all sports the same amount. Same pay scale at every school too

    which makes them employees. Not going to happen
    Do all athletes get the stipend football players get?
    I assume you have the answer to your question so go ahead and tell us why that is the same as paying players and we can skip several steps here
  • UWhuskytskeet
    UWhuskytskeet Member Posts: 7,113

    Just pay the damn players. End the ridiculous charade. Mediocre coaches make 2.75 million a year. These guys don't deserve $125,000?

    Don't pay the tennis, volleyball and bi-sexual tranny handball players.

    Pay one you have to pay them all over all sports the same amount. Same pay scale at every school too

    which makes them employees. Not going to happen
    Do all athletes get the stipend football players get?
    I assume you have the answer to your question so go ahead and tell us why that is the same as paying players and we can skip several steps here
    That was a legit question, but I was under the impression it doesn't apply to everyone.
  • Alexis
    Alexis Member, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 3,385 Founders Club
    How bout this. If a guy wants to get paid, fine, let him. But if he does, he loses his scholarship, his food money, his stipend. So he is off the university books. He still counts as a number on the schollie count, but the university doesn't have to pay him, whoever he is getting the money from has to, and the athlete has to get taxed on their income.

    So, use a guy like Baker Mayfield. He was a walk on so no one was paying him his freshman or sophmore year. By his Jr year it was apparent he could get paid. So he has to decide. Does he want to be a college athlete, or a pro athlete paying for college.

    If a guy takes money during a year that he is getting scholarship money, he has to pay it all back that year. Year is from August to June. So before the school year starts, you have to decide what you are going to be. Once you go pro, you can't go back to a scholarship athlete. But if you are stupid enough to get paid for two years, fine.

    If some agent wants to take a chance with the 7 foot AZ hoops player, fine. If he wants to take the chance with the fast pitch stud like Danielle Lawrie. If he wants to take a chance with Jake Browning (who sucks by the way) Knock yourself out. But you have to pay for their year of education and all the other shit college athletes get also.
  • GreenRiverGatorz
    GreenRiverGatorz Member Posts: 10,165
    dnc said:

    Just pay the damn players. End the ridiculous charade. Mediocre coaches make 2.75 million a year. These guys don't deserve $125,000?

    Don't pay the tennis, volleyball and bi-sexual tranny handball players.

    Pay one you have to pay them all over all sports the same amount. Same pay scale at every school too

    which makes them employees. Not going to happen
    No you don't
    Male and female student-athletes must receive equitable "treatment" and "benefits." I'm not sure how you could possibly get around paying 85 football players without offsetting that with equal payments to 85 female athletes. This would bankrupt just about any program outside of the top 25 in revenue, and I don't know how any non-money male sport could possibly survive as their subsidies from the football and basketball programs would almost certainly be cut.
  • DawgWagonDan
    DawgWagonDan Member Posts: 789

    dnc said:

    Just pay the damn players. End the ridiculous charade. Mediocre coaches make 2.75 million a year. These guys don't deserve $125,000?

    Don't pay the tennis, volleyball and bi-sexual tranny handball players.

    Pay one you have to pay them all over all sports the same amount. Same pay scale at every school too

    which makes them employees. Not going to happen
    No you don't
    Male and female student-athletes must receive equitable "treatment" and "benefits." I'm not sure how you could possibly get around paying 85 football players without offsetting that with equal payments to 85 female athletes. This would bankrupt just about any program outside of the top 25 in revenue, and I don't know how any non-money male sport could possibly survive as their subsidies from the football and basketball programs would almost certainly be cut.
    NCAA pulled in almost a Billion Dollars and had an 80 million surplus in 2014. Huffington Post is my source:
    https://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/03/11/ncaa-revenue-2014_n_6851286.html

    It probably shouldn't be up to the individual program but the NCAA in my opinion to start sharing proceeds with the athletes that make it happen.
  • DawgWagonDan
    DawgWagonDan Member Posts: 789
    MelloDawg said:

    https://www.si.com/college-football/2018/02/28/nate-robinson-washington-huskies-booster-money?utm_campaign=sinow&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_medium=social&xid=socialflow_twitter_si

    Not sure if this is out here already since the thread titles on this site rarely describe what threads are actually about, so fuck your 53 seconds.

    S.I. is your source?
  • YellowSnow
    YellowSnow Moderator, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 37,233 Founders Club

    If high school football players want to graduate and ride buses in the minor leagues instead of relaxing in the Knight Center getting blow jobs from cheer team members they can be just like minor league baseball players.

    College football could end in my lifetime and be replaced by this model. It won't be paying players.

    Even in basketball which is all but dead most of the stars choose one and done over the development league or foreign leagues

    College sports are not so much for the 1% who are a future pro star but for the 99% that realize the value of an education that regular kids are going into lifetime debt for.

    The NBA was a better league when players stayed longer building a name instead of going to the end of the bench and being forgotten. They get paid so again, all this could end and we go straight minor leagues for every sport.

    I wouldn't like it but if that happens it happens. Its just not going to happen on campus

    Here here. This is a good to great poast.
  • FireCohen
    FireCohen Member Posts: 21,823

    MelloDawg said:

    https://www.si.com/college-football/2018/02/28/nate-robinson-washington-huskies-booster-money?utm_campaign=sinow&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_medium=social&xid=socialflow_twitter_si

    Not sure if this is out here already since the thread titles on this site rarely describe what threads are actually about, so fuck your 53 seconds.

    S.I. is your source?
    S.I. Is still in business
  • Ice_Holmvik
    Ice_Holmvik Member Posts: 2,912
    So he got 100K+ for playing basketball then???
  • UWhuskytskeet
    UWhuskytskeet Member Posts: 7,113
    Alexis said:

    I'm not jumping into the amateurism discushun; I'm just wondering why these fuckers feel the need to open up a can a worms YEARS FUCKING LATER after the fact.

    Does it make them feel important again to remind everyone they were the caliber of athlete that got offered?

    Did someone at UW piss them off?

    What possible motive do you have for saying this shit out loud this many years later? My understanding of NCAA statute of limitations is that they're fucked up and that there is a broad exception to a default 4-year limit for "blatant" disregard of the rules. If that is enforced on its face, you can drive a truck through that.

    Good news for Washington. Emmert and the NCAA have much bigger fish to fry that some $100,000 offer allegation from 100 years ago. NOGAF. Nor should they.

    I'm less concerned about the NCAA and more annoyed at Robinson. What a dick move dood. Huge dick move.

    He's pissed Isaiah Thomas (he's named after Isiah Thomas you know.) got his #2 jersey retired and Nate didn't.
    He was at the Arizona gaga and seemed to be happy. I think he was just bullshitting on his podcast and threw in a metoo when talking about players getting benefits.
  • creepycoug
    creepycoug Member Posts: 24,036

    Alexis said:

    I'm not jumping into the amateurism discushun; I'm just wondering why these fuckers feel the need to open up a can a worms YEARS FUCKING LATER after the fact.

    Does it make them feel important again to remind everyone they were the caliber of athlete that got offered?

    Did someone at UW piss them off?

    What possible motive do you have for saying this shit out loud this many years later? My understanding of NCAA statute of limitations is that they're fucked up and that there is a broad exception to a default 4-year limit for "blatant" disregard of the rules. If that is enforced on its face, you can drive a truck through that.

    Good news for Washington. Emmert and the NCAA have much bigger fish to fry that some $100,000 offer allegation from 100 years ago. NOGAF. Nor should they.

    I'm less concerned about the NCAA and more annoyed at Robinson. What a dick move dood. Huge dick move.

    He's pissed Isaiah Thomas (he's named after Isiah Thomas you know.) got his #2 jersey retired and Nate didn't.
    He was at the Arizona gaga and seemed to be happy. I think he was just bullshitting on his podcast and threw in a metoo when talking about players getting benefits.
    Said another way, yet another stoopid guy was stoopid.
  • RoadDawg55
    RoadDawg55 Member Posts: 30,129

    Alexis said:

    I'm not jumping into the amateurism discushun; I'm just wondering why these fuckers feel the need to open up a can a worms YEARS FUCKING LATER after the fact.

    Does it make them feel important again to remind everyone they were the caliber of athlete that got offered?

    Did someone at UW piss them off?

    What possible motive do you have for saying this shit out loud this many years later? My understanding of NCAA statute of limitations is that they're fucked up and that there is a broad exception to a default 4-year limit for "blatant" disregard of the rules. If that is enforced on its face, you can drive a truck through that.

    Good news for Washington. Emmert and the NCAA have much bigger fish to fry that some $100,000 offer allegation from 100 years ago. NOGAF. Nor should they.

    I'm less concerned about the NCAA and more annoyed at Robinson. What a dick move dood. Huge dick move.

    He's pissed Isaiah Thomas (he's named after Isiah Thomas you know.) got his #2 jersey retired and Nate didn't.
    He was at the Arizona gaga and seemed to be happy. I think he was just bullshitting on his podcast and threw in a metoo when talking about players getting benefits.
    This. I honestly doubt it’s even true.