McLoofus 35,182 Posted April 30, 2019 Share Posted April 30, 2019 15 hours ago, C'viewTiger said: This happens all the time. You take a job based on a salary. If you don’t like the salary go to a different job. False equivalency. There aren't very many parallels between an athletic scholarship and an actual job. Especially when "finding a different job" just means going to a different program that still can't pay you. Quote Your employer’s salary has no effect on your salary. You get paid to do a job. Except college football players don't. Quote These kids agreed to go to the school for an education and a chance at the next level. If that’s not good enough, stay out of college, wait your three years and try your luck at the NFL. There is no realistic alternative route for football players. The NCAA does a great job of making sure of that. Quote All that to say, you do what you have to do to get where you want to be. That doesn't even make sense, unless you're suggesting that it's up to college athletes to get themselves paid while they're still in college? Quote They should be dropping the prices of admission and fill the stands at every game. No argument here! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zeek 16,525 Posted April 30, 2019 Share Posted April 30, 2019 Good for him. He's still young enough that I think, one day, we will see him at Turd-Town. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tiger 8,801 Posted May 1, 2019 Share Posted May 1, 2019 Let the kids capitalize on their likeness! That way the NCAA's money stays in it's own pocket and the kids that deserve outside sponsorships and whatnot due to demand can get them without any type of wide-spread wealth sharing plan being implemented that ends up affecting the crewing program at Podunk University. They would remain student-athletes without gaining employment status. The video games would be back. You could buy jerseys with the kid's name on it. You could see a handful of players in Gatorade or Nike commercials. There is a middle ground here that would work for all parties but most of the argument lands at either pay the players a paycheck or don't give them anything that they don't already have even if it means not allowing cream cheese on bagels. It would be too hard to "pay" players across the entire spectrum of NCAA athletes. But if you're preparing kids for the real world, like college is supposed to, what a better place than to learn the cold lessons of business that they're already learning. During the recruiting process they see first hand that some athletic programs at certain schools get more financial love than others within that school or at other schools. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
looney 794 Posted May 1, 2019 Share Posted May 1, 2019 5 minutes ago, Tiger said: Let the kids capitalize on their likeness! That way the NCAA's money stays in it's own pocket and the kids that deserve outside sponsorships and whatnot due to demand can get them without any type of wide-spread wealth sharing plan being implemented that ends up affecting the crewing program at Podunk University. They would remain student-athletes without gaining employment status. The video games would be back. You could buy jerseys with the kid's name on it. You could see a handful of players in Gatorade or Nike commercials. There is a middle ground here that would work for all parties but most of the argument lands at either pay the players a paycheck or don't give them anything that they don't already have even if it means not allowing cream cheese on bagels. It would be too hard to "pay" players across the entire spectrum of NCAA athletes. But if you're preparing kids for the real world, like college is supposed to, what a better place than to learn the cold lessons of business that they're already learning. During the recruiting process they see first hand that some athletic programs at certain schools get more financial love than others within that school or at other schools. Bring back EA's NCAA Football for the gaming consoles! (Though I wonder how much NCAA 202x would cost if this were the model for getting players' names/likenesses included.) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tiger 8,801 Posted May 1, 2019 Share Posted May 1, 2019 4 minutes ago, looney said: Bring back EA's NCAA Football for the gaming consoles! (Though I wonder how much NCAA 202x would cost if this were the model for getting players' names/likenesses included.) EA Sports dropped the ball big time. If EA had just given a free copy of the game to each player the kids would've been content being included. I'm sure it would cost a lot more, I had a few friends each get a couple thousand bucks a few years ago as part of the settlement. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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