Posted on 01/12/2016 4:16:06 PM PST by MinorityRepublican
On Monday night, college football will crown a new champion. In the process, a lot of money will be made.
No matter who wins, the University of Alabama’s Southeastern Conference and Clemson University’s Atlantic Coast Conference will be paid $6 million each. So will the conferences of the schools those teams beat to make it to the final. The organization that runs the playoff, a Delaware-headquartered corporation that’s separate from the NCAA, takes in about $470 million each year from ESPN. Clemson coach Dabo Swinney made $3.3 million last year and, as The Washington Post recently reported, his chief of staff makes $252,000; Alabama’s Nick Saban, the highest-paid coach in college football, made slightly more than $7 million, and the team’s strength and conditioning coach makes $600,000.
Some of the players are future NFL stars who will probably be rich one day, too: Alabama is led by Heisman Trophy-winning running back Derrick Henry, who set a SEC record for rushing yards and rushing touchdowns in a season. Clemson features gifted quarterback Deshaun Watson, also a Heisman finalist, and running back sensation Wayne Gallman.
The NCAA, though, insists that all of its players are student-athletes motivated only by love of the game and of their alma maters. So on Monday, they’ll be working for free. Most fans of college football and basketball go along with the pretense, looking past the fact that the NCAA makes nearly $1 billion a year from unpaid labor.
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The Day of Reckoning is coming for big-time college sports, there’s just too much money being made out there.
ohmygosh. If they don’t want to be “exploited” they can give up their scholarships, not play, and get accepted to college based on academic merits.
They are getting paid via scholarship, something they would not be eligible for if it weren’t for football. These big schools need to look to see what happened at Northwestern when their crybaby players wanted to unionize. The university said, how about we just cancel football altogether.
If you have a million dollar arm, and the University only gives you $50,000, are you compensated fairly? There’s going to be a case soon and players are going to win. The last time I checked, this country doesn’t support cartels. NCAA is one big cartel that controls their players.
I thought they got scholarships for playing.
Huh?
If they have a “million dollar arm”, let them try to make it in the NFL. There is no “right” to get paid to play sports That is ludicrous.
If these players are going to demand to get paid, then none of the basketball and football games will be broadcast on regular TV. They'll have to become PPV to accomodate the higher costs incurred by the NCAA.
Make them study or go back to the ghetto.
Easy solution, don’t let Blacks on the teams...
Crap. I should not have had to pay tuition to Stanford for my degree. I want free money. I want a lot of it. And I want it NOW.
Universities should sell the rights to their teams for whatever they can get and use the money to defray tuition costs for overburdened students. Let whatever team is formed be run like a business paying royalties to their university.
Players should not have to attend class, as they are employees. Have an age cap, and maximum eligibility time. Be done with it.
yeah. Seriously screwing the blacks. Free education....free grades.....how awful.
I bet NCAA football player's conpensation, in room & board, and the value of their scholarship, compares pretty favorably to an average Single A baseball minor leaguer.
I hate organized sports. So barbaric and pointless. Put some of those fellows in lion country in Africa during lean season and see who can run for the touchdown. Reality TV, baby.
The Day of Reckoning is coming for big-time college sports
Yeah? What’s that going to be...?
Back in the seventies and eighties Howard Cosell was proposing minor leagues pro sports near the universities to restore academic standards and make things equitable for academically challenged athletes.
One thing I think will happen is that the big programs will break away from the NCAA and form their own Association which will negotiate the Television contracts.
Well, on. The leader is the quarterback, Jake Coker, and he's white. And dig this! He's also NOT being paid.
Not sure how it'll work but I'm thinking Division I men's basketball and football teams should split from NCAA and pay players. Each player will have four years of athletic eligibility and going to class will be optional because they are employees, rather than students.
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