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Mitt Romney on paying college athletes: You can't have a couple athletes 'driving around in [tr]
Yahoo ^ | October 30, 2019 | Nick Bromberg

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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TOPICS: Sports
KEYWORDS: college; football; mittens
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To: ImJustAnotherOkie

The schools promote them to get higher attendance, better TV ratings, better renewals to the TV contracts, and a higher profile for the next recruiting class. The schools are already getting plenty off of that.

Agents are only strictly forbidden because agents imply money to be made, and the students aren’t allowed to make money. Now they are. Nothing wrong with agents.

Who cares if they make “real” money? As it sits right now the students can’t even get a free lunch at a restaurant (or free tattoos, remember the Ohio students) without risking their eligibility and hence scholarship. The system is stupid. It needs to die.


41 posted on 10/31/2019 9:27:57 AM PDT by discostu (I know that's a bummer baby, but it's got precious little to do with me)
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To: C19fan

“What you can’t have is a couple athletes driving around in Ferraris...

Unless they put the dogs on the hood.


42 posted on 10/31/2019 9:28:26 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: GOPJ
Mitt Romney understands what it’s like when A-holes with more money than brains try to throw their weight around...


43 posted on 10/31/2019 9:29:27 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: C19fan

Very socialist of you Mittens. Everybody must be the same regardless of their capabilities. Shut up. Just go away.


44 posted on 10/31/2019 9:44:01 AM PDT by Afterguard (Deplorable me!)
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To: C19fan

They can pay back the value of their athletic scholarships from the proceeds, freeing up money for STEM students who will actually create and make things of value. Win-win.


45 posted on 10/31/2019 9:44:32 AM PDT by JimRed ( TERM LIMITS, NOW! Build the Wall Faster! TRUTH is the new HATE SPEECH.)
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To: Afterguard

Mitt is so politically tone-deaf, it’s not even funny.


46 posted on 10/31/2019 9:44:48 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: C19fan
Why does this jerk think he should have a say in what any other person earns or doesn't earn?


47 posted on 10/31/2019 9:47:14 AM PDT by dead (Trump puts crazy glue on their grenades and they never know it until after they pull the pin.)
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To: C19fan

I wouldn’t worry about Ferraris. Or Lambos. Most of these ghetto-born jocks never learned to operate manual transmissions. Frequently you’ll read an article from some urban area where a car owner gets car-jacked but none of the jackers know how to drive a stick so they run away. I assume that Escalades and the Lincoln equivalent will be de rigeur amongst the nouveax riche on the campuses.


48 posted on 10/31/2019 9:48:26 AM PDT by VietVet876
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To: ClearCase_guy

Never mind the fact that her teaching has nothing to do with Tom Brady’s success. My skills as an adult are due to my college choices and self-directed learning, not my teachers from growing up.

The only significant contribution I have from my teachers growing up is the memories of if they encouraged me or discouraged me in my pursuits. I had a lot more teachers kill my dreams (especially in high school) than teachers who encouraged my success...and they wonder why I don’t think they’re as important as they think they are.

My wife taught high school and she agrees with me.


49 posted on 10/31/2019 9:52:50 AM PDT by Dexter Morgan ("MSNBC News? Appalling. Appalling and amateurish. So both at the same time; it's a bad combination.")
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To: JimRed

University of Alabama does this. The Football program pays for the 4 year full rides of National Merit Scholars. About 200 choose to attend the school each year.


50 posted on 10/31/2019 10:00:48 AM PDT by Betty Jane
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To: wrcase

Exactly. The pointless exaltation of amateur. The Olympics got over that nearly 30 years ago. Time for the NCAA to catch up.


51 posted on 10/31/2019 10:12:06 AM PDT by discostu (I know that's a bummer baby, but it's got precious little to do with me)
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To: discostu

Yep, if Jim Thorpe had been a Boston Brahmin from Harvard, those semi-pro baseball games would have been ignored.


52 posted on 10/31/2019 10:39:52 AM PDT by wrcase
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To: C19fan

>>>But he doesn’t want to see the most prominent athletes at each school making considerably more money than everyone else.

The efforts of the prominent athletes can often bring in the dollars that pay for the scolarships for athletes on non revenue generating teams.


53 posted on 10/31/2019 10:51:47 AM PDT by oincobx
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To: Alberta's Child

No. There aren’t more than 2 or 3 football players who are marketable in the million dollar range. Assistant coaches make that much already.


54 posted on 11/04/2019 11:14:56 AM PST by subterfuge (RIP T.P.)
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To: Buckeye McFrog

I get your point, but democrats only want fairness for those THEY deem worthy.


55 posted on 11/04/2019 11:23:39 AM PST by subterfuge (RIP T.P.)
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