Posted on 05/18/2022 11:34:32 AM PDT by Nifty
..........The amount owed to each athlete would be the half of the sport’s total revenue minus the team’s total student grant-in-aid package divided by the number of players. For instance, each USC football player could make upwards of $200,000 a year.
Think about taking $15 million to $20 million that currently has been used to reinvest in football resources and to fund the rest of the athletic department and transferring it to football players, and it’s easy to see why administrators are getting ready for a fight.
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Couple this with the transfer portal for real stability in college sports.
I don’t know the details of this bill, but what about the player who’s a third-string player. Does he make 1/3 of what a starter makes? If you’re the starting center for the team, do you make the same amount as the quarterback? Man, this is looking more and more like a pool of quicksand where coaches and administrators take a stand and slowly die.
Too bad- this is the end result of the NCAA making billions off these kids only to punish them if they as much as sold their own personal team merchandise
I think big-time college sports have had a corrupting influence on the universities. It might be a good idea to go back to old idea that college athletes were actual students, not hired guns, so to speak. Ban athletic scholarships and create minor leagues for aspiring football and basketball players, as in baseball.
“new bill”
The California legislature has lots of nuts.
“I think big-time college sports have had a corrupting influence on the universities. It might be a good idea to go back to old idea that college athletes were actual students, not hired guns, so to speak. Ban athletic scholarships and create minor leagues for aspiring football and basketball players, as in baseball.”
I am a HUGE college football fan, and have been since the 1950s. And I agree with you about banning athletic scholarships, and let students take the field.
yeah, really?
$200,000???
tell me how much does a graduate earn, who followed throuugh on an STEM curriculum degree??
Quit paying coaches 5-10 million dollars a year too. If your coach makes that much, it’s no longer an amateur sport.
Fantasy sports with all the trades is what ruined professional sports.
Quit paying coaches 5-10 million dollars a year too. If your coach makes that much, it’s no longer an amateur sport.
Sorry for the double post.
Yes, good points.
For whatever reason, baseball evolved with minor leagues, which are the farm teams for the major league teams.
In football and basketball, those sports evolved with the college sports teams becoming, in effect, their farm teams.
One of the seldom discussed issues with athletic scholarships, is that big numbers of players don’t graduate from college. Theoretically they are getting a free college education, but how many derive any benefits from that education? It’s worth discussing.
Before the euphemistic term scholarship it was known as a fee exemption. Just how many scholars are on a basketball or football squad—one?
That will end the smaller sports especially womens. No funding.
The revenue producing college sports (I. E. Football and mens basketball) have been ripping off the athletes for decades. There is no correlation between athletic ability and the ability to perform college level studies. Hockey and baseball players have the option of full-time employment , paying junior and minor leagues. Basketball and football players have no realistic option. The colleges should end the fiction that the illiterate felons that are the vast bulk of Division I “student-athletes” in the revenue producing sports are in any serious way “students.” Let the free market determine their value, don’t impose any academic requirements on them, treat them as employees. When they rape the co-Ed’s, make the schools pay. The hypocrisy ends.
That’s one thing baseball has over football. Every time I’ve seen a pro footfall minor league team start, it fails in a season or two. So as far as solutions go, that isn’t one.
The critical competitive infrastructure provided by the colleges themselves gets completely ignored when the argument of "exploitation of athletes" is being made.
I think those graduation numbers have been improved in recent years. Unfortunately, my impression is it’s been done by lowering standards and creating degree programs based more on “paper attendance” then actual attendance and academic work.
The pay package of a P5 football coach seems high until you see how much money comes in to the schools through those programs.
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