Posted on 03/31/2021 2:35:15 PM PDT by Meatspace
WASHINGTON — Justices across the ideological spectrum teamed up during Supreme Court oral arguments on Wednesday to voice skepticism about the N.C.A.A.’s position that it could bar relatively modest payments to student-athletes in the name of amateurism despite the antitrust laws. But some of the same justices also seemed worried about opening the floodgates to further challenges.
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I’m cool with this as long as scholarship money goes away. Maybe the smart kids may actually get scholarships.
Haven’t they been paid all along, in the form of scholarships which give them a college education in exchange for playing sports? Are there other issues involved?
This will further divide college athletics. Less than 25 schools have athletic departments that are self supporting.
https://www.goacta.org/news-item/most_ncaa_division_i_athletic_departments_take_subsidies/
Something to push tuition fees up even higher
In our new era of almost universal decline in sport viewership (though March Madness seems like it may be an exception), both on TV and in-person, it will be fascinating to watch all these parties - athletes, coaches, schools & conferences - fight for their share of a shrinking pie.
It was interesting to me that the NFL essentially doubled their yearly tv revenue in the face of declining ratings.
An athletic scholarship at Stanford is the equivalent of approx. $50,000 a year. OK. No more athletic scholarships for baseball, football, basketball, soccer, track and field.
college sports ceased existing more than 10 years ago. Espn turned a good thing into a cash spewing where.
But the ncaa isn’t the heavy here. Only non-thinkers would think so.
So, realistically there will no longer be student athletes, just athletes.
They should put spondor logos on the uniforms so yhey look like soccer players.
We all know college is just a farm system for the pros with zero relationship to learning/academics. At least it will be honest now.
Yeah, I saw that. I’m only guessing, but I’d wager that it had something to do with the lack of original scripted programming last year - that continues even now - due to the pandemic.
IOW, NFL’s rating may be down, but relative to other BROADCAST TV programming (which has declined precipitously), they’re even stronger...if that makes any sense.
Anything that brings about the demise of the NCAA is OK in my book.
How about we just admit only the academically qualified and let college teams be more average?
*whore. My autocorrect is rated G
more important than election fraud,
sex trafficking, election fraud,
clean water, election fraud,
foreign invasion, or election fraud
the murder of JUSTICE SCALIA by Robert, or election fraud
to the Maltese/Vatican/MI-6/CCP Chief Coven [”SCOTUS”]
which murdered J Scalia to make Malta’ Roberts and
his satellite controlling beard happy
to have fulfilled their quid pro quo.
And what happens under Title IX when male football players start getting stipends? Will the female field hockey players have to get the exact same amount even though the field hockey team (likely) operates in the red, perennially?
Ultimately, we could see paid athletes, but fewer of them on campus because these schools you mention that aren’t part of the elite 25 simply don’t have the money to pay everyone.
what happens then? you’ll probably hate/blame whatever that is, also.
they’ll never get all the worms back in the can.
What happens to what?
Sorry. I can’t dumb that down any further.
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