“Just eliminate the program. “
http://www.forbes.com/sites/chrissmith/2013/12/18/college-footballs-most-valuable-teams-2013-texas-longhorns-cant-be-stopped/
The college teams bring in hundreds of millions. The unpaid players most of whom will never make the pros, and who face the possibility of permanent injury, want their cut.
Beginning of the end for NCAA. You can figure a major class-action suit within three years, and the Supreme Court will rule against the NCAA. At that point, the whole mess will fall apart, and college-level amateur status will disappear entirely. Ticket prices will creep up to sixty bucks a game, and Texas Tech will be able to offer a million-dollar a year contract to some kid out of Arkansas to help them out. For the lesser schools....football will disappear within ten years. The NFL will shake their head over how this changed the whole scope of drafting and looking for future players.
Their ‘cut’ is a scholarship worth five figures annually.
I’m not opposed to a stipend but a realist knows that will be abused as the current system is being abused via under-the-table payments.
But these are the same lefties who simply hide their greed behind high-minded talk of workers’ rights and collective bargaining. They are ostensibly students who look at the Rust Belt and decide that unions are a good thing.
No doubt the union will require dues to ‘conduct normal business activities.’ The corruption will begin on Day One.
If the administration at Northwestern had a lick of sense, they would immediately end most of the interscholastic sports, and go entirely to Title IX implementation.
Title IX is an example of how even a briefly-worded insertion into the statutes of the US Code can work great mischief, as originally, it was not about sports at all.
All these “hundreds of millions” that college sports programs bring into the coffers of the university administration, only make the colleges targets for huge monetary lawsuits. It is in the nature of cheese to attract rodents.
The unpaid players.....
LIE—they are getting an expensive education under athletic scholarships. That is payment.
IF they think they are being exploited, then they can go back to paying for their college educations & they can also get the grades by themselves without the constant tutoring the athletes get.
Cry me a river.
Another group of Give me Give me Give me......
Let them start paying taxes on tuition, food, books, medical care and room and board then as well. As a tax payer I want my cut of what they are being gifted.