Posted on 07/01/2021 1:43:11 PM PDT by NohSpinZone
Plus most athletes qualify for Pell Grants which is spending money in addition to their scholarship....
In professional sports everyone is getting paid, in college sports not everyone is going to get paid and that will create issues...
one of the issues of why college athletes were not getting paid is the fact that most college sports programs don’t make money and paying money to the athletes would not have been paid on what you earn...
In major college sport football pays the bills, some schools make big money on basketball, and a very few break even on baseball, all the other programs at most universities lose money....
So if you paid just the football players, immediately a suit would get filed and the result would be you would have to pay the women’s golf team, the men’s swimming team, etc...just to be equitable...
Throw in that college players can now transfer to another school and not sit out, which means they are free agents every year, don’t think for one second if Alabama needed a QB for next year, they wouldn’t go to the best QB at a lower level school and offer him 300-400k per year to transfer, schools will be raiding each other for talent....
So, if a football player leaves college before graduating, plays 2-3 years in the NFL and then gets released, can he go back and play on his old college football team again?
It means that college athletes can make money off their talents.
For example, if you are the QB of some big Division I college football team, you can get a “piece” of the revenues from sales of your Jersey. Up to today, the NCAA and the schools controlled all of that and kept the money.
So…no more of the “we’ll buy your brother a car” BS. The average kid in a D3 school won’t benefit… but the big time folks will.
Look for a lot more bling in the Big Ten.
That photo is four years old.
Her "little schoolgirl" days are now behind her, and her naughty smile says she does not miss them. Today, she owns the world.
Good luck to her.
Ordinarily I would say no, but with these new rules, it’s unclear what will eventually happen....
The other issue is the raiding of talent from other colleges that will happen...
Let’s say a school like Alabama is needing a QB, what would prevent them from going to a school like Wyoming, BYU, Texas Tech, or some other traditionally average program and offering their stud QB a 300-400k endorsement package to transfer ??
Remember college athletes can transfer without having to sit out a year....
Not all college athletes will make money. The stud QBs and hottie gymnasts will make big bucks but the female shot putters will get nothing. That will breed a lot of resentment and tantrums downs the road.
So what? That’s life. Not everybody from any group makes money. Skill, looks, luck, life ain’t fair. But at the very least we can get rid of stupid rules.
Scholarships will evolve, I am sure.
But I think people have this image of kids doing nothing when they are on scholarships. What the average person doesn’t “get” is that the “program” owns you. They control when you eat, what you eat, when you sleep, when you go to class, when you work out, etc. This is not limited to “in season.”
I worked in college athletics for a while. It is literally indentured servitude. The trade off is a great education if you want it, but it’s pretty brutal.
I had to work within NCAA rules for many years. I would rather deal with the mafia. At least when you deal with the mafia, it is clear who everyone is. The NCAA just sucks. They are evil.
So what? That’s life. Not everybody from any group makes money. Skill, looks, luck, life ain’t fair. But at the very least we can get rid of stupid rules.
Agree. But try telling that to a bunch of crazed bull dyke feminists. This will drive them crazy because the attractive females will make a lot of money on youtube and social media.
I think by the time they hit the college level most folks got a handle on that. There’s always stars and not stars. And the stars start showing up in high school.
This stuff is tame compared to that.
It’s been infected for a while now.
The money isn’t going to be based on athletic performance for most females. So the hot pole vaulter gets a lot of money and the champion shot putter gets basically nothing.
College athletics as we knew them have been dead for a long time now. The money killed it.
So? That’s just as true for men. You think Tom Brady would be getting all those side gigs if he didn’t look like a GQ model? Plenty of guys who (at least then) were more successful as QB than him but not as good looking didn’t get as many side gigs. If Peyton Manning wasn’t funny he sure wouldn’t be getting them, and nobody asks him to model anything.
Lol. The very idea of Scholarships is to give deserving kids an opportunity for college who otherwise couldn’t afford it. It has nothing to do with DemonRATs or communism.
A lot of people are missing the point here. Good looks have nothing to do with it. The top athletes will be getting huge endorsement deals for their personal images no matter how butt-ugly they are. It’s simply going to be a mechanism for circumventing the rules against paying college athletes directly.
That is it. The big school Supporters will “buy” the images of the studs.
Social media "Influencer". Apparently, she has a huge following on social media.
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