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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He's a game manager. Anyone can be a quarterback for Alabama with all the talent they have on the team.
hahahahaaaahaha
And really, that should have been done forty years ago.
I find it interesting that only exploitation of black athletes is the focus of the article. It seems to me that there are quite a few white players who are in the same situation as the black players. Are they not being exploited as well? Or does only the black players’ exploitation matter?
I’m thinking Division I men’s basketball and football teams should split from NCAA and pay players
Title IX will require that females get paid as much as men, so...ain’t gonna happen...
Yes, I agree. Just about when it became really profitable.
Not if they're independent businesses.
This is a really easy matter to fix if it’s really hurting black athletes so disproportionately: establish quotas for white athletes so white athletes can help shoulder the burden equally, and thereby completely eliminate the putative racial aspect to the situation.
Nows I knows ya'll jus has ta be a cracker, only summin wit da White privlij's wood be sayin summtin races likes dat!
yes but that is not germane to the issue
the subclass of black jocks wants to be compensated with money rather than scholarships that require mental effort and class attendance when they could be fornicating with their hos
Are they not being exploited as well? Or does only the black players’ exploitation matter?
that is why the premise of this article is so freaking stupid...
Anyone can be a quarterback for Alabama with all the talent they have on the team.
You clearly did not watch the championship game last night...
Not if they’re independent businesses.
whatever the relationship between the schools and the men’s teams, will have to be reciprocated for the females...
First of all, this is a racist article. Period. What about other minorities on the team, or any college team for that matter?
On my college fencing team, we had whites (Italians, Irish, Jewish, Ukrainian etc,; blacks (one was a good friend of Bill Cosby); Asia Indian; a part-Chinese coach, and a few people we could never identify as to their origins.
We had no scholarships for years. However, in my last two years, several needy fencers got a $500 sports scholarship (which in those days helped pay for tuition for one semester).
We produced three All-American fencers in two years (two were repeaters), won two MAC championships, and placed in a tie for 5th at the NCAA Championships in 1966.
We dumped enough trophies on the Athletic Director’s desk after the ‘66 season that it broke.
We actually went from a so-called cheese and roast beef (alley rat, by the tail) sandwiches and a soda or juice on road trips, to real meals at real restaurants during those last two years.
Meanwhile we had to keep up our grades for eligibility. A few had outside jobs, including myself.
In the end, it was our love of the sport, excellent coaches, and a tremendous team spirit that carried us through a rebuilding to eventually having a ten-year consecutive run of MAC championships.
In those days it was an honor to be on a varsity team. Today, too many look at it as a paycheck-in-the-making. I don’t begrudge them becoming professionals if they have earned it, but the purpose of going to college is to get an education in order to get a job in the future (as most college grads have to do in the course of their normal life).
It is time to revise the whole college sports world and start putting education back in the equation. That is why one goes to college in the first place.
The left will kill football within 10 years.
I hate organized sports. So barbaric and pointless.
Sure, sure...whatever...
Maybe the black players are more likely to end up with a fake degree or no degree - nothing of value after their “education” - no pro career, no employability.
Any promising college athlete can have their future destroyed in a moment with an injury. Colleges don’t compensate for the worth they bring to the team and most of the time they cannot immediately go pro where their worth is compensated for directly. Free republic should be cherishing their ability to market their skills at any level. The athletes are adults, and should be free to make a contract for their obviously marketed talents. The only thing that changes is who gets compensated, and if the talent is not compensated and prohibited with the okay by government, then the monopoly should be “reevaluated”.
Freepers in favor of government backed monopolies...twilight zone time.
DK
Some College football players are making in excess of $60,000 a year legitimately.
College football players can negotiate for a paid insurance policy to protect them from a career ending injury. Star players can also negotiate moves to different teams.
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