Posted on 04/29/2020 9:17:52 AM PDT by C19fan
The term of the day for the NCAA: “modernize.” Or maybe it was “change.” Then again, “unprecedented steps” also got plenty of time. All were true. After decades of digging in, battling in court, launching advertising campaigns or just shaking their collective head “no,” the NCAA’s Board of Governors has agreed to provide its athletes the same economic freedom as any other student on campus, starting in January 2021 at the latest. It still must clear a vote at the NCAA Convention, but board approval makes it all but inevitable. “We approved legislation for student athletes to receive compensation for third-party endorsements,” said Ohio State athletic director Gene Smith.
(Excerpt) Read more at sports.yahoo.com ...
Alumni to 5-star recruit...
Alabama Alumni: Dude you are awesome. Here is $1,000 for one of your autographed jerseys.
USC Alumni: Dude, ignore them here is $2,000 for one of your autographed jerseys. Did I mention we are near Hollywood?
What could go wrong?
” College “ football has been a joke for decades.
Why not just designate it as minor league football for the NFL ?
After all, colleges in general are rapidly pricing themselves out of existence.
What happens if a coach benches a player for a game and thereby the player loses an endorsement? Can the player sue the coach?
What if the coach is sued for featuring one player more than another?
What if coach is accused of favoring one player in order to split an endorsement?
And so on...
Why not high school students then?
This is stupid and further splits the point of going to college (for scholarship/academia) as just a pathway to the NFL.
NFL should just pull directly from high schools and colleges should get out of varsity sports altogether.
College sports jumped the shark a long time ago. It’s time to return all college sports to a club basis. No scholarships. Pay coaches like any other faculty member. Regular academic standards (essentially non-existent on many campuses anyhow) with no tutoring combines to nurse athletes through. No time off or special arrangements for practice or travel. Treat athletes like all other students, no more and no less.
The NFLPA will be all over this as if the business can use “cheaper” athletes, the endorsement markets will closed up for the names in the “big leagues.” Money becomes the only issue.
https://www.nflpa.com/about/partnership-and-endorsement-policy
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You do know pro players have been signing endorsement deals for over half a century and not run into ANY of those problems right? So back in reality, none of those are problems. What is a problem is propping up a multimillion dollar league on players legally banned from making money.
College sports have been about academia for about 75 years. They’re about money. Making it for the college. As for high school players, honestly why not? We let high school students get jobs. Why not let student athletes have a job of being in a commercial for the local burger joint other high school students are working at.
In how many states is the highest-paid government employee a College head football coach?
Why stop at sports? Plenty of non-athletes at a college get special treatment too . . . the musician, the debater, etc.
Go back to Luddite-ville. Part of the college experience is going beyond the library. And BTW, those coddled athletes consistently get higher GPA’s and serve their communities more than the non-athletes do.
why would a good athlete go to podunk college in podunk usa which is a small town without vast need for advertising when he can go to big city school with lots of ad $$$$$ available...
we'll be down to a handful of big money schools that are competitive and then the rest of college sports...
female athletes will get no ad money except of course if they pose naked....
and forget about soccer players, or tennis players etc....no other athletes will get any money except the big school football and basketball players....
Anywhere college football makes fat cash. And of course that’s just the “public” part of their salary, that’s tied to state tax money and is therefore in databases open to the public. We don’t know what the alumni association is paying them.
For those wondering Why Now?
This is likely a reaction to losing the NCAA tourney largesse from March Madness that normally goes to the colleges to fund non-revenue sports. March Madness and the BCS fund over $1 billion a year to the member schools to fund the less glamorous sports.
Paying athletes this way will help net out some of the lost scholarship money.
Remember, for many years the NCAA would not even allow a student-athlete to get a few bucks for spending money (many D1 football and basketball athletes come from pretty poor backgrounds and they WERE NOT ALLOWED TO GET A JOB by NCAA regulation) nor allow the school to fly the family in for something like a final home game.
If you were poor and BY REGULATION, could not work for your spending money that was a problem for a poor kid.
Get real. Let the NBA and NFL run their own farm systems and get the non-students off campus.
Why would a good athlete go to college and not make any money. Basketball is losing students to international leagues currently. NCAA has a choice: stop going with slave labor, die.
Actually there’s a lot of pressure. Players getting permission to unionize. CA’s law allowing student athletes to get paid whether the NCAA likes it or not. And college age basketball players taking their talents to international leagues and getting paid. NCAA needs to adapt. Or turn off the lights.
I’m all for college athletes getting paid .. Just give the scholarships to real students
And force the NFL (or NBA) to subsidize it or lose their “special” status!
Which I think they shouldn’t have!
Let the Big Name schools please their name & affiliations to these minor league teams so there’s some kind of tradition & continuity.
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