Posted on 03/20/2018 8:08:43 AM PDT by rktman
“They [the NCAA] just got a contract from CBS (and TNT), $8.8 billion, and if you are making that, I think you have to share some revenue. You can’t expect people to continue to work for nothing on a false hope of, well this is about education, we are getting you an education, we will feed you. It sounds a little like 400 years ago, like slavery. Stay in your hut. Stay in that little house. We’ll give you some food. You do all of the work. All of it. And I am telling you that I will take care of you."
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I do agree that there needs to be reform in the classes that these athletes take. I would mandate they have to major in something useful, instead of stuff like “African-American Studies”. But of course that will never happen, because that would be racist, or something.
Just two, honest !
The casual observer would think that was illegal these (fustercluck) days !
Slaves were educated with college degrees. I never knew that.
Getting a four year diploma for simply being a living, breathing, black who can play basketball is a pretty fair deal.
The games are pretty much unwatchable. The quality of college basketball has really declined.
You are exactly right. These people are getting screwed.
Few make it to the NBA for any significant period of time.
Academics. Due to their employment of playing basketball they don’t have time to get an education. (There are few exceptions, i.e. Bill Bradley and others)
When C.M. Newton came to Kentucky in circa the 1950’s, Adolph Rupp told him we did not bring you here to study, we brought you here to play basketball.
Spencer, sorry, but as a college educated American, I had to pay my way through college, I didn’t have a basketball such worship so I couldn’t get into UConn for free. I first went to a community college, then a branch of UConn. You know why Spencer, it is because I could spell CAT, and most of the basketball players couldn’t if you spot them the CAT...
Adolph Rupp was a racist jerk.
Moses Malone played at Louisiana Tech. He did not go straight to the NBA. Spencer Haywood did. I believe he was the first to do it. If you want to stop this let kids who think they’re good enough go directly from HS to the NBA. Problem solved. Of course the NBA doesn’t want that. They like the system just the way it is. It allows them the luxury of not running a minor league program, and let’s the college weed out the pretenders.
I thought about that nmany years ago. Teach them a skill to get a job after playing is over. But,your right that would be called racist.
So, a free education is “slavery”?
I would not mind seeing players get some sort of stipend. They spend a great deal of time practicing and traveling.
I also think they know what they are getting into when they take these scholarships...
They should start their own league.
After all, look how boxing prospered after the likes of Don King took over.
I paid my own way through college .
These losers have their way paid for them in exchange for playing a game.
Sweet deal
The NBA has a developmental league and there is always international basketball. I would support eliminating the mandatory one year in college before being eligible to play in the NBA. If you can vote and fight for your country at 18, you should be able to play in the NBA if a team wants you at any age.
Good point, perhaps, but not completely cut/dried.
Some of it’s doubtless a talent thing, but ya can’t convince me there’s not a real bias at work in who plays and who sits.
We are slaves to air. We must keep breathing to stay alive. We’re slaves to water and food. We’re slaves to space and time. Please stop the improper labels.
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All in favor of eliminating any age limitation.
I get it. He is a football player and not trained or expected to be some polished politician when asked basic questions. But he did attended college for 4 years. He had a major. I assume he took classes and had to pass those classes in order to play.
My hope is he is smart enough to find a good financial planner that will set him up for life with what he is making now, because if that interview was any indication he doesn't have a backup plan if he runs out of money. Honestly, it was sad.
Just more Marxism, whose core principle is greediness.
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