Posted on 08/08/2014 8:15:17 PM PDT by rstrahan
Afederal judge ruled Friday that the NCAA cannot stop college football and basketball players from selling their likenesses
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Chalk one up for Liberty.
I have seen pros in commercials wearing generic uniforms and in other commercials wearing team unis.
Wonder if the university can prohibit the player from using the university uniforms?
Good.
Pay the players and let them make money off their own name.
If they get paid, nix the scholarships and free room and board. Can’t have it both ways.
not hardly
You don’t understand a thing about the affinity of college sports. In college, people cheer for the name on the FRONT of the jersey.
Exactly, we root for the laundry.
sure...meanwhile the NCAA and Texas A&M made millions off Johnny Manziel’s name yet wanted to suspend him after HE made $20K selling his autograph....
the NCAA is a microcosm of the obama administration- inept, corrupt thugs..
I don’t follow sports that much, but is that what happened? That’s wrong, if so. Let folks sell their own image, they are not totally owned body, bone, cells and souls by the school. The Schools are just another business that may call it’s self non-profit, whether or not that’s the truth.
So be it. There was a contract between Texas A&M and Manziel. Texas gave him a scholarship, and a place to show off his basketball skills. In return, Manziel was to follow a certain set of rules.
Perhaps it was an uneven contract, but it was a contract. Manziel broke his end of the bargain, a bargain that he had agreed to.
Ugh. Not basketball skills, but football skills in my previous post.
“You don’t understand a thing about the affinity of college sports. In college, people cheer for the name on the FRONT of the jersey.”
If they were cheering only for the name on the front of the jersey, Texas A&M would sell as many jerseys with the name of their long snapper as they do Johnny Manzeil jerseys.
There is no such thing as a “student athlete” and they are not playing to wear a letter jacket and go to the homecoming dance.
I do understand that at the big schools, the only affinity is for the money and they thing they cheer the loudest for is gross receipts.
Texas $166 million
Wisconsin $149 million
Alabama $149 million
The above football programs generate more than $2 million per scholarship athletes per year.
They can pay the players.
Everyone points to Johnny Manzeil…..you base your entire argument on a fluke, an outlier, etc. Everyone also bases it on the huge state universities. TWO REALLY bad logical flaws
Fact is, Texas A and M sold out the stadium before anyone heard of him. Same with most major programs. These players don’t bring the fans to the school, the school brings the fans to the players. Johnny had 90 thousand admirers the very moment he stepped on the field.
Another fact is that the massive profits are only made by a few football schools and a few basketball schools. Most sports at most schools lose money. FACT.
Another fact is it cost billions of dollars to build these stadiums, manicure these fields, polish these courts, etc.
You are arguing like a liberal.
BTW, I”m not defending the schools here either. Big Education is a friggin scam, and frankly, the athletic side of the scam is probably nothing compared to the rest of it.
But logic is logic.
Again, everyone wants to base their entire argument over Johnny M and Texas A and M.
I gotta news flash for you: Johnny M is a one time outlier and Texas A and M has a huuuuuge fan base compared to most schools. And jersey sales are not even a rounding error.
And oh, they were all A and M fans before Johnny M and they’re all A and M fans after Johnny. So, did Johnny bring fans to A and M, or did A and M bring fans to Johnny? Overwhelmingly, it’s the latter.
Yes, maybe I misunderstood the story - I thought it was the NCAA that contracted with EA Sports or whatever to make “NCAA Football ‘13” or ‘12 or whatever...
LOL- that’s just one example....
The NCAA and Ohio State sell jersey’s with Terrelle Pryor # & name for $$$ yet when Pryor trades some of his personal artifacts for free tatoos he is eventually forced to leave the OSU program....
Georgia and the NCAA sell AJ Greene jersey’s and likenesses yet when Green sells one of his old jersey he gets suspended for 4 games...
and on and on and on....
C. Edmund Wright, you are really clueless to the business side of college sports...
besides the fact i’ve already taken you to the woodshed over Manziel being an outlier with two examples, and can provide hundreds more, its sheer and complete ignorance to claim that somehow the stadium in College Station was sold out before Manziel’s exploits on the field,(which is wasn’t) or that somehow the program’s riches were not off the chart thanks to Manziel- total stupidity....
and while it costs “billions” of dollars to build these stadiums, who pays for it?? not the taxpayers....
and do you realize the money from TV contracts, ect go to the conference rather than the individual school???
argue with facts eddie, not just left wing talking points....
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