Posted on 02/25/2018 4:04:05 AM PST by Libloather
The do NOT receive a college education. That is quite simply a lie the NCAA likes to push out there. All the athletes are pushed to easy classes to keep their GPA up and not distract them with too much homework.
As for the idea the schools don’t make money, Hollywood accounting, AKA lies again. Nobody is paying 10s of millions to the coaching staff to lose money.
Paying players CLOSES cans of worms, not opens them. Because the fact of the matter is they already get paid. it’s just all under the table and hidden to follow poorly thought out NCAA rules that exist to help us maintain an illusion that college athletics is somehow purer than the pros.
First step to paying the athletes is 10% of all revenue that comes from their name or face goes to the athletes whose names and faces are included. Jerseys, t-shirts and posters. It’s frankly disgusting, and should be illegal, for the schools to be selling people’s names and faces without giving them any.
Most of your other questions are answered simply by “free market”. Do you know why the volleyball coach doesn’t get paid as much as the basketball coach? Same method for player salary.
Who cares about degree requirements, there aren’t any now, no reason to stick them in.
Athletes are being paid for being the engine that drives a multi-billion dollar business. What about injury now? Players can get career ending injuries now and they’re done, with NOTHING. At least if they were getting paid they have some cash.
There’s only one consequence to paying them: admitting the truth. The fact is they’ve been getting paid under the table for a long time. This is just ending a fiction.
Half of athletes are broke after retirement because they never learned how to handle money and they were lied to their entire life that they’d have a long majestic career in the pros. And they don’t. Most players get their rookie contract and nothing else (and in the NFL with non-guaranteed contracts most of them don’t even get that). Maybe if we actually stopped lying to them in college, started teaching them that it’s a JOB, and it’s a non-guaranteed job they’d enter the pros with some life skills and not blow through all that money assuming they’re going to hit the pay day.
The fact of the matter is for college athletes, especially in the big 2 sports, the sport is their job. They spend much more time on that than study, pay them for their time. not paying them to maintain a happy fiction is morally bankrupt and despicable.
So the problems of these teams are part of the NCAA’s systematic failure. But apparently the University of Louisville’s failures are their own as they had to give up their 2013 championship. That doesn’t make any sense unless UofL was going to be the sacrificial lamb and then the number of teams just kept increasing.
If they were in a minor league they would be paid. Thinking they are getting an education is just stupid. AH
That’s real the only solution.
Both the NFL & NBA should subsidize minor leagues, in the long run wild be best for the players, the leagues ad certainly the colleges and universities.
Of course no one will want it!
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