Posted on 07/23/2021 10:18:47 AM PDT by karpov
Fifty years ago, I entered the University of Tennessee-Knoxville as a freshman scholarship runner on its high-profile track team. The NCAA held athletes to a strict amateur code in which compensation to athletes was limited to in-kind payments of room, board, books, and fees. The term “illegally paying players” meant sneaking in extra amenities including though not limited to cars, special benefits, and the “$50 handshakes” from boosters, all of which could get a university’s athletic programs onto NCAA probation.
With National Association of Collegiate Athletics v. Alston, the U.S. Supreme Court guaranteed huge changes in collegiate sports, and with the subsequent decision by the NCAA to permit college athletes to sell their names, images, and likeness (NIL), there is no going back to the old system. “Paying players” takes on new meaning.
Within days of that decision, athletes who received only traditional scholarships suddenly are signing six-and-seven-figure deals with marketing companies and other outfits.
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These kids are going to have such big tax liability issues it won’t be funny. On top of the endorsements, scholarships should be taxable.
There are likely to be major lawsuits over this because the colleges see that revenue as their own.
Soon enough the science majors will demand their own payments for the research they’re doing. That’s where the real big bucks are.
this is the end of college sports...
I will not watch...
“this is the end of college sports...”
Good, it should all be club level anyway. Any sport that has multi-millionaire coaches isn’t amateur.
How did he get the NCAA off of his back? He gave them a bigger fish. He pointed out that a Bama booster had outbid Tennessee's boosters and other schools' boosters for Albert Means (a Memphis high school player). The NCAA dropped the hammer on Bama and Bama spent many years with scholarship reductions and post-season bans over that. No punishment was ever put onto Tennessee for the fact that the football players were allowed to completely skip their schoolwork.
So all those years Bama was punished for something that today is now lauded as opportunity for the students.
College football will be reduced to the big ten, and it’s not the conference.
Will there be a threshold for removing scholarships for the big money athletes?
This situation might be spiraling out of control before it even begins...
Pretty soon Pee Wee football might be the only football worth watching.
Can students with music scholarships perform for pay at non school venues? What’s so special about football players that they shouldn’t be able to earn money on the side?
If college sports were played at the club level you wouldn’t have this problem. As I’ve said many times before, big time college sports are one of the most corrupt institutions in the country and needs to be done away with.
Athletic scholarships are the only ones where the student isn’t allowed to make money on the side. It’s a stupid system that should have been killed the first time a college signed a multimillion dollar TV contract.
The real problem is a society that values playing with a child’s toy more than building a free and fair world.
The NCAA needs to die a quick—and hopefully painful—death. They are the worst governing body in Sports.
There are new conferences being born for those colleges who don’t focus on D1 sports. Colleges should look to those to bring back the spirit of the student Athlete. Any D3 school still in the NCAA is a dinosaur.
“Can students with music scholarships perform for pay at non school venues? What’s so special about football players that they shouldn’t be able to earn money on the side?”
I’ve made the same point on other forums. My one caveat is that scholarship recipients must compensate their university for use of copyrighted logos, etc. in their side gigs.
Doesn’t really matter if you got a scholarship or not. Standard trademark is you can’t be selling a logo without permission, which often means payment. Really these NIL laws going into place just leveled the playing field, so the students get to sell their face too, not just the university.
Are there any other countries where teen/early twenties amateur sports are played mostly on college or high school teams? In most countries non-professional sports are played at a community or club level.
Nope it’s pretty much just the US. Because college football and even college basketball were more popular than the NFL and NBA for many years, so the precedent was set.
They should have been structured more like baseball.
Yeah, in other countries amateur will be club like. Higher level “junior” leagues will generally be at least semi-pro, like hockey’s Major Junior.
I foresee a lot of schools dropping football in the coming years.
I guess this is why so many Olympic athletes are now attending college in the USA or have in the past.
I agree. My point was that students will get to sell their face but not when wearing a university-logo ball cap or other clothing unless permission is granted and, most likely, payment is made.
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