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To: JSM_Liberty
Members of these organizations are getting wealthy and that's fine.

However, these professional ball players need to move their industry off school campus.

Then create something new: college teams made entirely of law-abiding students studying at the university.

9 posted on 04/18/2024 11:32:23 AM PDT by jeffersondem
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To: jeffersondem

“Then create something new: college teams made entirely of law-abiding students studying at the university.”

This is really new only in the US. Foreign countries have been paying their players for years with free schooling paid for by MLB and a living stipent. Remember the old Russia Olympic basketball teams that were allowed members of the Russian military? Many counbtries did this. Another example is Cuba.

Some of the most proposterous are the latin countries that have been using “schools” to teach reading and writing in the morning and using retired professional baseball players and coachs in the afternoons. And this has been going on since the 1950’s. They can sign at 16 and be totally baseball from there on. As of this writing, all 30 of the MLB teams, for instance, have academies in the Dominican Republic. And the main source countries are Puerto Rico, Mexico, Venezuela, the DR, and Cuba. So what’s the difference between the SCOTUS saying the colleges need to reimburse the athletes for commercials and not just paying them outright? The SCOTUS case that determined this was the Alston versus NCAA case.

wy69


13 posted on 04/18/2024 12:18:25 PM PDT by whitney69 (yption tunnels)
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