By the time you line this idea up....how do you handle a team of 50-odd football players (ages 18 to 21), and suggesting that five players will be getting $60k for a season, while 15 of the least will get no more than $18k for the season?
The soccer players getting a equal chunk of what football players get? Volleyball players getting equal of what basketball players get?
I see this generating a lot of turmoil for three years, and players start refusing to play unless their pay is increased. Go explain strikes around a NCAA campus.
Easy, Texas, LSU, Oklahoma, A&M, Ohio State, USC, Alabama, Georgia and Notre Dame will be able to afford it, the rest of the schools will not.
—.how do you handle a team of 50-odd football players (ages 18 to 21), and suggesting that five players will be getting $60k for a season, while 15 of the least will get no more than $18k for the season?”
In the tradition of “To each according to his needs...”
All pay should be equal after all expenses are paid.
IMO, after long-term medical support system-wide is paid, the payout could be near ZERO.
BUT,BUT special legislation will dump them all on 0bamacare!!! IT’S FREE!!!???
If players are guaranteed equal-ish shares, what’s to stop every single student from joining some kind of team in order to get a share of the booty?