Posted on 03/20/2018 8:08:43 AM PDT by rktman
“They [the NCAA] just got a contract from CBS (and TNT), $8.8 billion, and if you are making that, I think you have to share some revenue. You can’t expect people to continue to work for nothing on a false hope of, well this is about education, we are getting you an education, we will feed you. It sounds a little like 400 years ago, like slavery. Stay in your hut. Stay in that little house. We’ll give you some food. You do all of the work. All of it. And I am telling you that I will take care of you."
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If they were talking about the NBA it’d be laughable.
As they’re talking about college, it’s still laughable but much closer to truth.
The colleges/universities make MILLIONS off those kids and the kids can lose scholarships, get kicked off teams if they so much as receive a free meal from the wrong person. It’s FAR from slavery so the article comparison is a joke but the kids in that system get the super-duper short end of the stick.
About fainted.
SO WALK AWAY FROM THOSE AWFUL MILLION DOLLAR CHAINS AND GET A REAL JOB. Contribute to society, do something besides slap a ball.
Spencer Haywood stepped up when Lew Alcindor choose not to represent the U.S. in the Olympics. In his day it was a fair deal, college scholarship for sports. Now it’s such big business and the athletes are getting screwed. The NCAA is most corrupt. I’m glad it’s the black athletes pushing the envelope because whites won’t.
Yeah, that's the ticket. Abolish college basketball where a minuscule percentage of players ever go pro and take away the scholarships of the 98% who use it to get an education.
Tuition and fees at Duke University are $49,241 USD without financial aid. With room, board, and other fees combined, total cost of attendance is $66,739 USD.
On how many different teams?
Free at last, free at last, no more basketball, free at last.
So Deveney and Haywood, when will you be sharing your money with us? Or are you both just more BS and FOS retards spouting off crap?
Sure they get scholarships but that's mostly a sham because the degrees they earn are virtually useless.
In the meantime they generate billions for everybody else. It's not fair. They are being used.
And that's the plain truth of it.
Moses Malone went straight to the pros. Didn’t waste his time. 18 year olds are adults with the same rights as you and I. Would they all be better off with this interlude b4 entering the pros? Not for us to answer.
It is not slavery, but it is exploitation. Many of these kids have been sold the idea that they are going to make it big in the NFL or the NBA. I have even worked with community college bench warmers who think they are one step, one shot, one game away from a first division NCAA basketball program and then the NBA. Meanwhile, the big universities rake in the millions and these kids fall away to the side and are forgotten. Many of them never graduate, and those who do often have worthless degrees that lead nowhere. I live in a state that is consumed with athletics, and whose legislature doesn’t give a damn about common education of the majority of kids. Once a big fan of all things sports in my state, I now hate every facet of college sports and refuse to watch it. Society would be much better off without collegiate sports. Maybe it is more akin to prostitution than slavery.
The NBA takes very few players,
There is opportunity to play internationally, the pay is not like the NBA, however a few years would build a nice nest egg.
This is a great option.
Who forces them to major in "Basket Weaving"? They are free to pursue degrees in Engineering, but many of them cop out for useless classes just to stay eligible. That's a whole other issue that needs to be dealt with.
Same message the Democrats give. “Stay on the porch and we’ll feed you.”
They weren’t conscripted. The scenario wasn’t unknowable to them. They’re getting a free university education. They travel and get applause and special attention (unlike chemistry students). They have a chance at lucrative pro bball.
But, they are miserable, mistreated slaves. Victims. Deserving pity.
My response: https://youtu.be/KIikqPmbgvI
That’s why they were playing in the NIT and not the NCAA tourney.
I do not care if they can spell basketball.
However, I just want them to be able to hit a FREE THROW. If you are a division I college basketball player and can not shoot more than 50% from the line, you have got a problem.
Cry me a river. First, basketball and football, pay for the costs of many other intercollegiate sports activities at most schools. Second, the annual costs of tuition, room and board, and other fees are huge, forcing most students to borrow money to attend school and working. Athletes on scholarship are a privileged few. Check out the annual costs for most of these big time schools and you will be blown away by the costs. It is no wonder that student debt now eclipses $1 trillion.
The typical annual cost for an out of state student at UCLA is $62,858.
I agree Dilbert.
I grew up in Nebraska, love football. Tired of having my tax dollars spent on a farm team for the NFL.
Many of the players don’t get an education. Six hours of practice leaves little time to study. I would rather have the players paid a salary and the school lease the name to the team than the current system.
So quite frankly, the players are being exploited. They are generating millions of dollars for the school while getting a substandard education.
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