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.
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With the buying of athletes out in the open the Alabamas and Clemsons will have all star teams more so than they already do.
I am wondering if some NFL retirees might still have some college eligibility left.
Never heard of an academic scandal with non-athletes?
Keep it up! Cheer for the chess team. It will make you feel better!
Right - but there was still the pretense that this was about academia and advanced studies instead of the equivalent of a career center for sports.
A pretense of stupid. And frankly abusiveness. The NCAA should be ashamed of spending all these years propping up a massive revenue stream with unpaid labor. That’s just messed up. About time they were forced to change.
All the NCAA had to do is establish universal academic minimums (SATs) to ensure professional students with character and intellect over professional athletes.
But we like to be entertained.......
What could go wrong? Other that just about everything. I think they are leaving out High School kids, shouldn’t they profit too?
Capitalism for everyone except college football players because...reasons. And please don’t bring up the education. The education that most of the players get isn’t worth jack squat. “Studies” courses taught by Dr. Friend of the Program. Guaranteed A, gotta stay eligible.
let me see.....$50 thou scholarship, free food, room, spending money, able to travel, special tutors,and nutritionists, and special access to gyms, and now they'll get the money for ads, etc....
yeah, they're treated just like any other college student .....NOT!
they're getting much much more then the hard working student who is working their way thru college to pay for tuition and taking out loans AND attending classes....
I'd rather see no money paid out and ONLY real college student-athletes play....
most college athletic depts are in the red....are close to it....
Yeah, slaves got free room and board too. And the stipend thing is very recent, used to be athletic scholarships were the only ones that couldn’t get a stipend. They’re not getting more than students on academic scholarships. Those students are allowed to get jobs.
Because there’s hundreds of schools. Most NCAA div 1 programs, ie the ones that matter, are in the black.
Typo
please = lease
I really wish you could go back & edit typos!
Athletes have had others take the SAT/ACT for them. See Derrick Rose.
I know— but since the NCAA has its fingers in everything else regarding compliance, it wouldn’t be that hard to proctor all at the Div I and II levels, and it would put an end to these morons using college and they can’t read or write. It would of course, spark a new minor league system to feed the NFL, but for academic integrity, it is worth it.
Of course, the difference is the graduates have an active duty military service requirement upon graduation.
You can forget about a job during the school year, as my ROTC commitments were 15-20 hours a week, plus a weekend of training every month. I did have a job for my first two summers in college, while the summer of my junior year was consumed by ROTC summer camp.
Players at Gonzaga and other schools take advantage of the summer session by taking 6-12 hours to get them ahead of the curve. They also assist the coaches with the hoops camps during the summer.
One of our players, Corey Kispert, was named Scholar-Athlete of the Year, for schools that don't have football.
RALEIGH, N.C. -- Gonzaga and Michigan stood out in a study that seeded men’s and women’s NCAA Tournament brackets based on graduation rates, academic success and diversity in the head-coaching ranks.
The Zags were a No. 1 seed in both brackets released Thursday by The Institute for Diversity and Ethics in Sport (TIDES) at Central Florida, while the Wolverines were a 1-seed in the men’s bracket and a 3-seed in the women’s bracket.
https://abcnews.go.com/Sports/wireStory/study-gonzaga-michigan-top-academics-based-ncaa-brackets-69942984
They get that now. Wasn’t true 15 years ago. No stipends and not allowed to work.
Then academic students should get revenues from all the patents and research they do for the schools for “free”
NBA's trying to turn their G League into a minor league with the creation of a team consisting of elite 18 YOs. I have my doubts as to what success they'll have. NBA is just beginning to feel the pain from the loss of revenue from China. Compound that with fewer games from Covid, and the league won't be as flush with cash to blow on the G League and the WNBA.
A bit O/T, but I suspect Covid will negatively impact future network contracts for the NFL and other pro sports. Companies are sure to cut back on their advertising budgets, as they navigate their way out of the Covid economy.
My advice to Dak Prescott would be to take the 5 year contract from the Cowboys, as the salary cap will likely remain the same for at least the next couple of years.
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