Cory Booker Wants to Replace Major College Football with a Federally Controlled Pro Game

Townhall.com ^ | February 3, 2021 | Terry Jeffrey

[CommerceComet]

$115,600 to men's basketball players, $19,050 to women's basketball players

I bet that several sprint records are shattered as the attorneys race to the courthouse to file Title IX lawsuits.

[Kickass Conservative]

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[stremba]

As is almost always the case, the real answer is freedom. First of all, to say that these players are amateurs is a farce. The top programs illicitly throw money at the top recruits to get them to play at their schools. Furthermore, college football whether anyone likes it or not is a billion dollar business. The athletes generate a whole lot of revenue and deserve compensation. Why not allow open negotiations between players and the universities to determine how much that compensation should be and what form that compensation should take? If a kid wants to go to school and earn a degree, then that could be part of that kid’s compensation. If another kid thinks he’s NFL caliber and is only attending college to play the three years post-high school that is mandated by the NFL for draft eligibility, then let that kid earn the salary commensurate with the revenue he generates and not get a scholarship that he has no interest in.

[Alberta's Child]

Baseball and hockey have minor leagues. For football and basketball, the NCAA is the "minor leagues."

I have a theory about this. Professional football and basketball never developed minor league systems because the collegiate versions of these sports were actually more popular than the professional leagues up until around the 1940s. Baseball and hockey, on the other hand, already had extensive networks of minor and semi-pro leagues in place long before then.

[qwerty1234]

haven’t spent anytime thinking about this issue, but if Corey Booker is for it, then I am against it.

[Joe 6-pack]

"In their senior year, they both decide they want to attend the same prestigious private university...where the tuition and board and room exceed $60,000 per year...The university accepts them both. But the journeyman offensive lineman -- who was never recruited to play college football -- needs to find a way to come up with the $60,000-plus per year the school will cost."

Am I the only one that thinks $60K tuition may be a bigger part of the problem than the respective positions the two play?

[DMZFrank]

Setting aside the merits of this for a moment, is there even a fig leaf of constitutional authority for ANY of this proposal?

(Yes, I know that we live in a post-constitutional US)

[redgolum]

Maybe.

But having hired several former pro and semi pro players, I will never do so again.

“Entitled” does not begin to describe them.

They grow up being told how special and wonderful they are for being good at the game. Then one day, and it is often a single day, that is over. The people who fawned all over them jump to the next resource and you are left with a bitter, confused, spiteful person whose whole self worth was in a game they can no longer play.

It starts for some of these kids at age 4, and the parent/s are pushing them all the way.

Now add to that the COVID insanity, and I am surprised more of the kids haven’t killed themselves.

Sports can teach a great many things, but it teaches most often that if you are good at it, that is all there is.

No easy solution

[redgolum]

They have bowling scholarships.

I have yet to figure out why.

[ealgeone]

Booker said that would mean payments of $173,000 a year to football players, $115,600 to men's basketball players, $19,050 to women's basketball players and $8,670 to baseball players who are on full scholarship,"

Yeah.....just wait until the Nags see this. It'll last about ten seconds.