I need to hear more about this ruined college b’ball scenario. It’s the only sport left that has an ounce of integrity. Not saying it’s perfect with the likes of Kentucky, L’ville, Mich, etc. history. But overall a great product that only gets better with every passing year.
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Well of course the top athletes can go wherever they want. But how many top 100 guys does Indiana really get? The top schools get the top athletes while the rest of the schools fight over the left overs or try to talk the local guys into staying home.
As far as your idea of schools paying stipends, that would open up an absolute mess. You do realize that the current proposals out there don’t require schools to pay anything correct? Title IX is a big obstacle to overcome.
So you are mad because you don’t think college kids should be able to make money? Got it.
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Indiana is not one of the schools I would consider a viable choice. But when I think of the schools that are viable choices for top recruits to go to…my list is longer than 20. Its closer to 40 or even as many as 60 schools.
I think it could work if you could somehow cap it per school or per player (or both). Which is why I brought up the NBA model. What you can’t do is get into the old MLB model where one school is spending $200M a year on football players, and then when you have a good one they simply buy him away.
And yes, Title 9 is a huge obstacle to overcome.
But then you are just raising costs per school, when a lot of schools aren’t making a ton of money on sports in the first place. Then you look at all the sports that don’t generate money and you start splitting money between them too. Absolute mess. The California law, which other states like MI seem to be emulating and which i’m sure the NCAA will follow eventually, side steps all that and simply says athletes are allowed to make their own money if they can. So schools don’t pay the athletes anything extra. Notice the Chase Young issue is not about OSU paying him money.
In my model and amounts of money that I think football players could be paid, it doesn’t require additional funds by schools. It just reallocated where some of the current money is going. And just to be clear…I’m not on the side of “hey, players need to be paid!!!” I think a free education and the ability to showcase their talents on the largest stage in the world is plenty. I’ve just spent a lot of time thinking about how it could work, and challenging my own arguments (that you are currently making).
Anyone who knows college sports knows there are some really passionate, really wealthy fans who are willing to spend whatever it takes to have a winner. The big time football programs are receiving insane amounts of money from wealthy donors as it stands. Shifting that to being donations directly to the players is not healthy (IMO). I get WHY it makes sense on the surface. But once I dig into the details (where the devil is), there is a natural flow to life that it completely disrupts. We’ve seen what has happened to a lot of “child stars” in Hollywood. I think you are going down a dangerous path with similar results.
I don’t think it’s fair to compare a child star in Hollywood to a 18 year old.
It’s not healthy to give 18 years old money in college but its healthy to let them fight in wars?
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For the record I don’t think kids should be getting money from schools more than scholarships.
But if Nike wants to give a 19 year old a shoe deal college I don’t what the problem is. Hell if a booster wants to give a kid money to go to school oh well. This is America.
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I wouldn’t be so sure about that. When we found out Reggie Bush was getting paid, he fell all the way to the 2nd…
Overall pick.
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Well sure, if you handed me a giant bag of money I’d make you a family friend too.
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Shoot, give me a big bag of money and you can be my close personal BFF. LOL
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So a free education at these top schools isnt enough?. I think the system is flawed too. Its all a racket. They have too much authority and abuse it too much.
I’m sure there’s nothing wrong with it
I’m glad that California is going to let them get paid. The whole student-athlete farce needs to come crashing down. Especially since the top players are already getting paid in more ways than a scholarship. The NCAA can eat shit. Michigan didn’t get to throw $300,000,000 or whatever it was at the Big House because of the team’s academic accomplishments.
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What does enough have to do with it? Your salary at your job isn’t enough, you need benefits too?
You think they dont have benefits as well? They get health care, room and board, food. Dont get me wrong i think the NCAA is corrupt. I wish they would get their non profit designation revoked. They are the most profitable non profit organization that i know of.
My brother got a scholarship from a D1 school.
Sure he got his degree but if you think he got the same education that a regular student got then I don’t know to tell you.
And he went to a private school that apparently took academics more seriously than most.
The education an athlete gets from a school like Alabama or any other football power is not preparing any one for the workplace.
This isn’t opinion I’ve read about I’ve seen it with my own two eyes
That wasn’t really my point. What I mean is… who says when somebody has made too much money? Do we tell Jeff Bezos he can’t make any more money? Or Bill Gates? So why do we think it’s ok to tell these adults that they are not allowed to make money?
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Yeah, I have a hard time being ok with telling an adult that we aren’t going to let them have money for their own good.
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You wouldn’t be telling an adult, you would be telling a kid. Take a second to think about it.