Posted on 10/29/2019 11:20:33 AM PDT by sodpoodle
The NCAA's Board of Governors voted unanimously Tuesday to permit college athletes the opportunity to benefit from the use of their names, images and likenesses "in a manner consistent with the collegiate model," the organization announced.
“We must embrace change to provide the best possible experience for college athletes,” board chair Michael V. Drake, president of Ohio State University, said in a statement. “Additional flexibility in this area can and must continue to support college sports as a part of higher education.
Well actually you couldn’t be more wrong. I mean seriously, there are a 120 teams in Divison I, 150 in Division II and about 250 in Division III. And what 20 Pro Teams vs 500 college teams.
Granted a few college players go to the pro’s but the overwhelming vast majority are there for the full ride scholarships. If this little group of elite players foul it up for the other Tens of thousands of players it will be pretty sad. It would be better to get them out of the Academic area altogether and start a farm system.
The revenues are used to pay for other sports programs like track, woman’s sports, and other men’s sports and on and on.
Yep, I have a question, can a student on a music scholarship sign a recording contract? If so, why can’t a football player sign an endorsement contract?
I once saw a list of the highest-paid state employees in every state. In almost all of them, it's the university football coach by a wide margin.
Even at the major colleges, there are plenty of players who know they have no professional potential. (Any delusions on that score will be knocked out of them the first time they line up against Ohio State or Alabama or Clemson.) A lot of them are still real student athletes, as are most of the athletes in the non-revenue sports. It is the blue chip, future pros in football and basketball who are spoiling the deal for everyone else. That's why the colleges should be going in exactly the opposite direction: NO financial rewards for college players; the small minority who have professional prospects should go directly into a developmental program run by the NFL and NBA. Return all college sports to a club basis, where the games are played by real student athletes.
I guarantee this is next. Then school or the NCAA board will grant permission as long as the NCAA gets a 10% cut and the school gets a 15% cut.
Such a scam.
Wait till a coach benches someone or doesn’t let him play enough; that will bring a lawsuit, since he is limiting their commercial potential.
Schools might get rid of football. There is always ebb and flow, ie University of Chicago football.
This will be very bad for small teams. People will go to schools who can make them the most money. So they will buy student athletes with promises of endorsements. Things will evolve very fast to the point where the big schools will keep being pro minor leagues and small schools will not advertise players at all. I bet there will be far fewer players in the middle. A team like Navy or Boston College will probably move to the lower tier. ND and Alabama will stay in the higher tier.
This will destroy collegiate sports as we know it. I give it about 5 years and we will start to see new problems.
“... It would be better to get them out of the Academic area altogether and start a farm system. ...”
Yes it would be!
And that what should be done.
“...revenues are used to pay for other sports programs like track, woman’s sports, and other men’s sports and on and on......”
If they are that important academia should pay for them.
They could be club sports. I did rugby & lacrosse as club sports and had fun, stayed in shape, partied, etc.
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This whole "compensating college players" is a plan full of huge holes. Here is one thing to consider:
Say the MR. GREAT running back, piling up hundreds of yards on the ground has become the big star on the team. His name is worth a lot, I guess.
HERE IS THE QUESTION.
What if the running back's (relatively obscure and unknown) hard-working offensive linemen start moaning that nobody knows them, no money is coming their way, and they sort of suggest to MR. RUNNING BACK that those holes he's running through aren't going to be there anymore if they don't SEE SOME OF THAT MONEY?
SHOW ME THE MONEY!
How will all that be worked out?
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(Same thing goes for the showboating, well protected quarterbacks.)
An excellent point. The team concept we all grew up is over, given way to a few stars surrounded by guys who row the boat. This is the latest example of liberalism (Gavin Newsom & the NCAA) ruining whatever they touch. It won't be long before "one-and-done" apply to all college sports, not just basketball.
There is sufficient money in college sports to pay the players who earn this money a larger stipend. NCAA football and basketball players could be paid a sizable stipend and this would negate the need to allow athletes to sell their image and likeness to the highest bidder. Unfortunately, much of the revenue earned by football and basketball is used to fund non revenue sports (e.g.women’s softball, volleyball, etc.) due to Title IX. The NCAA is OK with turning college recruiting into a sanctioned pay to play program as long as it doesn’t kill the sports that pay for all the Title IX programs.
paid players will catch hell when they make mistakes. Fans will ride them unmercifully.
They can. Interestingly recently there was a case where guys on athletic scholarships with music majors couldn’t finish a class because part of the class was getting published, which means getting paid, which would put them in violation of NCAA rules. Meanwhile students in the same class on academic scholarships had no problem. That’s how freaking stupid NCAA rules are.
This is the purpose. They must destroy everything that brings this nation together, art, music, sports, religion, history, EVERYTHING. This is by design from those who want this nation finished.
They won’t be covering the cost of women’s teams without the football revenue.
Did Danny Ainge get paid by the Blue Jays (1979-81) while he was playing basketball for BYU at the same time?
Not good
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