Posted on 03/27/2014 7:43:27 AM PDT by A'elian' nation
College football players should not be paid. Plain and simple. But there is no reason why any player should not be given carte blanche to capitalize on his chosen sport.
Capitalism 101 rides to the rescue once again. In addition to the free education players get, any player, on scholarship or not, should be allowed to sell and hawk his personal merchandise from t-shirt to jockstrap. He or she should be allowed to put his name and school name/logo on his jersey or helmet or whatever - just like the pros do. A player could sell and trade cards with his name and stats - anything he can come up with that is marketable.
Paying athletes to play and unionizing the sport is a terrible idea. It's just another desperate grab by the dying unions. Not only would the athlete earn limitless compensation, but these young college students would quickly learn all about Economics 101 and Conservatism 101 instead of just pocketing a paycheck and paying union dues.
And now you resort to outright lies to supplement your insults. How thoroughly expected.
that’s the logical conclusion of your own words .sorry you can’t do your own math.
No it isn’t. And you know it isn’t. Really we’re done here. You know you’re full of crap, but you want a flame war. Not obliging. Go ahead and make more insulting lying replies if you want, but I’m not reading them. Bye. Have fun with your solo pissing contest.
If they start paying players while they are still students, it’ll cause a horrendous amount of chaos. They are still too immature to handle being famous on campus, handling massive amounts of money will cause them to spiral completely out of control, disrupting the campus.
Nobody is talking about giving them massive amounts of money. The general discussion is small stipends (like students on academic scholarships get), and no longer banning them from making money off their name. One of the great stupidities of the current system is that everybody but the college athlete can make money off his name, the college sells his jersey (maybe even autographed), the conference sells his jersey, the NCAA sells his jersey, but he gets so much as a free tattoo for signing a jersey he can be thrown off the team and declared ineligible never to play college sports again.
Yet the athlete is getting a free ride through school.
Academic free rides include a stipend. Why not athletic?
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