Posted on 07/02/2021 7:10:05 AM PDT by karpov
College athletes’ rights, including their economic rights, have long been denied. American college sports have existed under an antiquated and oft-changing definition of amateurism that requires athletes to forfeit any pay for their efforts on the field or court.
Despite the revenue explosions in the industry, and the wealth flowing into athletics departments, amateurism has been the rule. Moreover, college athletes are also denied basic freedoms that most college students and Americans take for granted such as the right to protest under the First Amendment and the freedom to transfer between schools.
However, the rules for American college sports are on the cusp of dramatic change.
College athletes, bolstered by public support and favorable court rulings, are insisting on more economic and other freedoms. Contested rights include:
determining their athletic schedules and requirements health protections, including lifetime medical insurance coverage for athletic injuries
free speech protections
control and use of one’s name, image, and likeness (NIL)
more academic freedoms such as taking any class, any desired major, and access to other helpful educational resources like study abroad and internships
(Excerpt) Read more at jamesgmartin.center ...
Good reason to end college athletics.
Say goodby to college football.
And the impact on high school sports? Just a matter of time.
Time for a separation of education and athletics.
NCAA is done. Stick in the fork.
These kids are too young. Take Spencer Rattler, he has failure written all over him. It will be fun to watch.
Theoretically, these athletes get paid by getting a free college education. That’s been the idea, anyway, that they get an education in exchange for playing sports.
Its all about the Benjamins and not about education.
Ultimately this will end big-time college athletics.
Why should college & universities particularly taxpayer supported ones be farm teams for pro athletics.
At first what will happen the taxpayer will be forced to subsidize this under the guise of “higher educaion improvements”. You know for the childeren !
Very few programs actually make money but never fear the state taxpayer is near ! See the article link below.
https://www.bestcolleges.com/blog/do-college-sports-make-money/
Take aways from the article:
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According to the NCAA, among the 65 autonomy schools in Division I, only 25 recorded a positive net generated revenue in 2019.
Among those reporting a net positive, the median profit per school was $7.9 million. And among the 40 autonomy schools reporting a negative net revenue, the median loss was $15.9 million. In other words, the majority of universities in the nation’s top athletic conferences.
The schools you see on TV every weekend competing for national championships lost money through their sports programs to the tune of approximately $16 million each.
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If a state school that loss is made up by the state taxpayer ! Who thought he was paying for a higher education.
If schools pay the “athletes” the taxpayers will just have to fork out more !
The schools will eventually be forced to divest themselves of big time athletics.
I’ll still watch Navy Football. I don’t much care for the rest of the NCAA
Big time college Football brings in big time alumni donations. These schools only lose money on paper.
No one is playing big time college football for the education. Even the colleges know this.
“Good reason to end college athletics.”
Never happen. The programs are a major source of funding for the colleges to maintain a high level of education capacity. Of course the larger universities are receiving funding at greater levels than the small colleges due to other than athletic provisions, but the effort only gains higher at a higher level of need to maintain the business of the college.
As for the athletes, I was watching a commercial a few days back and they hit the nail on the head when the displayed that only 6% of college athletes ever turn pro. Consider on the other hand how many could even afford to get an education at a college or university without using scholarships provided by the athletic programs.
Sports in colleges is not the rah rah college experience it was 100 years ago. It is part of the school incomes and in a trade off for the athletes bringing in the cash they receive an education for the athlete’s future. Trade off.
Let’s look at a colleg4e football program and I’ll use BYU as the display. NCAA rules allow for 105 players to be rostered before the first day of class, or the first game, whichever comes first. When school is in session, there is no limit to the number of players on the roster, but BYU maintains a maximum of 123 at all times. So that doesn’t include the non-rostered players in case of injury, illness, or leaving school by rostered players. FBS programs are allowed 85 scholarships on its roster at any given time, and generally can sign up to 25 players per year.
I had a troop in the military that played for a name university, basketball and volleyball, and he told me he never had to go to classes but he was smart enough to realize he wasn’t going pro so he did attend and got his degree, himself. And the job the university provided to get him some extra cash was dead end. But it was provided.
As long as athletics is going to be treated like a business, it is essential to the facility budget. And they are already paying the athlete with an education that all they have to do is get for themselves. Free money will not last after the degree.
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If you say so.
I guess these schools only go to their state legislatures for subsidies for fun?
When are colleges going to put all teachers on a tenure track and get rid of the exploitive designation of "adjunct professor"?
If they start giving into the demand of "student athletes" then there will be less money for those actually teaching and learning.
And when a white athlete makes more money in endorsements than a black athlete, the leftists will howl racism.
I agree, College Athletics will not be eliminated anytime soon, traditional schools with long histories who have tremendous alumni support through donations, etc....want college sports and are willing to pay for it....
One of the prime reasons that colleges have stayed away from paying athletes is that very few colleges could afford it.....
I graduated from the University of Florida, a very large traditional school with national championships in quite a few different sports...last year UF had 628 athletes on scholarship....
You can’t just pay the football or basketball players, Title IX and simple fairness requires you pay everyone...if UF for example paid all their athletes $1000/month that adds up to over 7.5 million a year, even a school like UF who could pay that amount but in down years it would be difficult....only the very biggest school in the biggest conferences would be able to afford to pay players....
Notice that 10 of the 20 schools listed in your link are from the SEC....
Until rules for allowing players to be compensated for their Name, Image, and Likeness chaos will be the norm..
College athletes are now allowed to transfer to another school and be eligible to play immediately at a new school....essentially this makes college athletes free agents every year....
One of the things I think will happen is, college athletes will be poached from other schools using things like lower taxes, size of bonus paid, financial package offered for family, etc....
It will be worse than Professional Sports, teams will cycle thru players like trash being thrown out...if some player doesn’t work out, get rid of that person and buy another one.....
All this essentially makes big-time college sports minor
league teams to the pros! Minor league teams they don’t subsidize. The taxpayer will continue that under the guise of educaiton.
They have always been minor leagues for professional teams, especially Football....
The NFL has no minor league, the NBA has a quasi minor league, baseball is the only professional sport that has a long history in minor league development.
College sports need to be examined not just on profit/loss because they bring in revenue in many different ways...
For example if you go to some Alumni and ask for major contribution, a lot of those alumni value the athletic program, so the new Math Building named after a rich Alumnus might not happen if college sports were elminated....
No one pays money to watch a math professor teach calculus, but they do pay money to see their sports teams play......
Eliminating college sports or cutting back on them would be very detrimental not only on the field but in ways most people can’t imagine....
It will become a few super teams and maybe a few that can barely hold on. I see all of Division 2 and 3 football walking into the sunset plus at least half of D1.
* Say goodby to college football.*
Yeh, for sure. This is going to be a long evolutionary process over several years. But one doesn’t have to be a genius to foresee some of the changes in the near future. Some of the big name stars will get big contracts for cable, network tv and such. But, the players at small schools and those playing sports that aren’t big draws will be competing for social media clicks. So, will get those clicks? Those athletes with the hot toned bodies. And, the sexier the better. No end in sight for how or where this will end…
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