Posted on 10/31/2019 7:58:31 AM PDT by C19fan
Sen. Mitt Romney says he supports college athletes being able to capitalize on their name, image and likeness. But he doesn’t want to see the most prominent athletes at each school making considerably more money than everyone else.
Romney (R-Utah), was on ESPN’s Outside the Lines on Wednesday where he said college athletes deserved to make money because of the revenue that they bring to their schools. But he said athletes getting paid “could lead to some very unusual circumstances that need to be avoided.”
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says the guy with an elevator in his garage.
Also, do you think Mitt’s comment could be construed as racist?
Just ONCE, I want to hear a politician say: “That’s not a political issue or something politicians need to get involved in, so I don’t have an opinion. Let society decide for itself.”
Div II and III seem to do just fine and have fun.
Explain to her the basic economic concept of marginal utility. Water is more important to daily life than diamonds, yet diamonds are priced so much higher because they are incredibly scarce.
Absolute mong. If we’re going down this road, then let the best athletes make the most money. Why should Tua Tagovailoa make only slightly more than the fifth string CB?
Every day it is more and more clear why this Mormon Moron lost in 2012. What a colossal putz.
I think it’s healthier to consider income as simply random than to try to imagine its being “fair” or recognizing any ethical (rather than purely economic) “value.”
Economic value is effectively a tautology: a sick chicken or a football player or a teacher is “worth” whatever someone will freely give you for it.
Look at how much money the owners of “Grumpy Cat” made. You can be upset at the injustice, or you can laugh at the absurdity of humanity. The latter course is better for your digestion.
And it will also open the doors to allow rich mega-booster alumni to influence a recruit's decision on which school to attend.
They’re not going to make that much. The field is too crowded. The NCAA didn’t have a choice, with the CA law and other states introducing matching laws the NCAA needed to either adapt or watch a replacement grow out of those states. It’s good to end college sports as we know them. The NCAA has gotten silly, too many rules that don’t get enforced until years later, vacated wins, “give us back our trophy”. Well past time for the system to get rebuilt.
Diamonds are only scarce because it’s an artificially controlled market. If we opened up the throttle on the South African mines diamonds would be one of the least precious stones on the market.
If it weren’t for stupid remarks, Romney wouldn’t make the news at all.
Not the governments business is what another FReeper said. I agree, though I think its a bad move to have ‘professional’ athletes in college. Maybe that horse is already out of the barn, but IMO colleges should be in the business of educating students first and foremost, with extracurriculars being privileges of maintaining competitive grades and being humble/role model students.
Hey, if Adam Schiff can make up quotes, why shouldn’t you?
Nobody is wrecking the scholarship system. It’s way past time for athletic scholarships to be on the same plain as academic. Students in on full ride academic scholarships can make money outside, even money based on the skills that got them the scholarship. If computer science students on full rides can sell software why can’t athletes on full rides sell their fame?
And he steps on the landmine....
He just can’t stop talking.
I don’t really care about the issue but many people have serious opinions about this topic, because so many college stars, fail to make careers at the pro level.
But I can already hear millions of people gearing up to dump on the rich guy who doesn’t want college kids to get rich...
Get HIM!
This may finally get him off the let’s Rino Anti-Trumper of the month list.
Here is the reason why it’s different and far more complicated than it seems.
The schools openly promote athletes for this and that award, putting them on display for the whole country. Why shouldn’t the school get a cut for their promotional services?
These students will require agents and agents are strictly forbidden for obvious reasons.
How many Students will be in line to make real money? There are over 8000 college football players (about 400 teams) in all divisions and all this for 30-40 players.
That’s far different from a student getting a part time job.
It’s the Mitt Romney types that glorify amateurism. In the past it was a way to keep the “deplorables” out of sports.
Mitt Romney understands what it’s like when A-holes with more money than brains try to throw their weight around...
Finally, Romney’s experience gives him insight....
College athletes on scholarship are already being paid. A four year scholarship to most colleges would cost about $75,000+++ over four years. The fact that many abuse that generous gift is too damned bad.
For those real oldtimers. Remember that the U. of Chicago was quite a football powerhouse. Then from one day to the next the football program was ended. I could see Stanford, Northwestern, Wake Forest and Rice bowing out. And others would follow.
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