College teams have been paying players since before i was born. 99.99% of it went unpunished and hidden in the shadows of nearly ALL of the great teams.
I think it is progress to take that out of the shadows. Now the question is WHEN does the NCAA institute a salary cap for college football? I bet they wait until they are forced to make a chage just like this.
It should be a meritocracy where the sport that brings in the money gets to spend 95% of what they bring in. The other 5% can go into a general sport fund. Good programs will make more and more money so that 5% will look pretty good to the fooseball/soccer teams that no one cares about (i mean raise no money).
Then if true then was jimbo so for it then? Why are kids bouncing team to team? This nil crap is silly and dumb. No way hs should make a million before taken a snap
Well, a lot of schools will do exactly that and the other sports will do what they have always done.
Of course there will be a few that wonât.
The other thing is that star players will still be able to sign their own side deals.
Smaller schools are going to struggle and we will see how Title IX factors in.
Lot of headaches coming over the next few years.
I donât disagree with you on the points youâre making and the current system is screwed up no doubt. The decisions made this week will just add more chaos for a while.
But the players definitely deserve to get paid for what they bring to the schools.
I have to wonder how this affects basketball, particularly the Michigan Fab Five (Webber) and the Robert Traylor, Louis Bullock and Maurice Taylor years
Paying athletes is not the issue, there are simply no rules to how this is done. Often times it varies state to state. Some people (Harbaugh being one) were trying to argue in favor of a system that is fair to the athletes and programs.
This will work its way out, but itâs going to take time. There has just been a massive failure of leadership and forward thinking. We are not going back to a time where college athletes are not paid.
I donât think it has any impact on those years.
Football players deserve to get paid!
The top 100 programs make $30m! From football.
The top 40 make $65m!
And the top 20 make well over $100m!
The kids deserve a cut of that
But the bottom programs or any other sport its pointless.
Like womans softball ? Cool heres your $5 check for profit share
How about at the end of year give player their cuts nil only helps the rich and takes away in chance of the poor becoming at least middle class.
The prior cash under the table so to speak didnât go to all the players only a select few so this doesnât really change much.
Definitely something in the vein of what you mention. I believe there are more lawsuits out there still to be settled including unionizing the players iirc.
This is inevitable. The rules will have to be negotiated.
Problem is, NOT paying athletes while making billions of dollars off their efforts is illegal. The courts have been telling college football leaders for years that they need to do something about this (apart from making themselves rich, which theyâre doing great at).
From the Supreme Court: "The NCAAâs business model would be flatly illegal in almost any other industry in America⌠âPrice-fixing labor is price-fixing labor.â
Yeah, itâs not going back. As much as people want to hold on to nostalgia, this isnât the same NCAA our parents watched.
Whatâs so frustrating is that there are so many things college football leaders could have done, for so many years, to preserve whatâs special about the sport. But there are no leaders in the NCAA or conferences, and no one looking out for the health of college sports. Instead everyone just kept enriching themselves under the banner of âamateurismâ until the last possible minute, leaving the mess for others to clean up.
I donât understand why they should be taking classes then. Itâs just a job.
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