Posted on 07/08/2021 7:15:01 AM PDT by Nifty
That happens now.
This just makes the price more transparent.
Nick Saban, Alabama: $9.1 million
Ed Orgeron, LSU: $8.7 million
Dabo Swinney, Clemson: $8.3 million
Jimbo Fisher, Texas A & M: $7.5 million
Gus Malzahn, Auburn: $6.9 million
That is not, IMHO a bad thing.
A lot of money gets poured into having uneducated people run all over a field while pretending to be students. Having seen the ruined lives of the players and sometimes their victims on campus, I have a dim view of the sports scene.
No sympathy here for the NCAA.
They pick and choose which colleges to enforce their rules against.
Maybe the major college teams will turn pro and that will get rid of the NFL/NBA. Bonus points.
Once the NCAA went corporate, it was the beginning of the end. Same with pro sports.
This is going to cause significant seen and unforeseen bad outcomes.
What happens WHEN the men are paid more than the Women?
“ That has also has been happening for many many years.”
I recall back in the ‘80s, a college football player whose name you would recognize, was given a really nice new car with an upgraded stereo system, bags of money, and all the white cheerleaders he could handle. He was basically treated like royalty. It was good to be him in those days.
Why do “progressives” wage war on sports? To make the American people lazier, less aggressive, less competitive, softer, weaker, and more “sheep like?”
So we don’t believe in the free market if a woman under 25 is involved somewhere?
Not so good when his playing days were over.
Exactly, we should have academies and sports clubs where talent is developed. Separate athletics from education. And I say that as a former die-hard college sports fan.
Just a couple of reminders:
1) If you’re not good enough to do it, you can teach it.
2) If you’re not good enough to teach it, you can critique it.
3) It takes no presence of mind to follow lemmings over the cliff.
The Republic now seems beset by critics and lemmings.
Like the coaches? Ha. Nothing.
You hit the nail on the head.
Academics definitely takes a backseat to athletics on today's college campuses. Worthy students who take their studies seriously often struggle to pay for college, in many cases, taking out student loans that they must then spend the bulk of their adult lives paying back.
Meanwhile, you have kids who got straight "Ds" in high school who can't string a coherent sentence together getting a "free ride" because they can dribble a ball.
The whole system is a joke.
I'm old enough to remember when the College Football Association (CFA) won the argument at SCOTUS against the NCAA that schools and conferences be allowed to sign their own TV contracts (where as the NCAA was in control of all TV contracts and was limiting it to just a few schools, and each school just a few TV games per year). The sure thinking at the time was that the NCAA was being the gatekeeper to allow somewhat smaller schools be on TV too, and that the new ruling would mean college football as we knew it would be over and that only a few schools would hog up all of the TV slots.
Quite the opposite happened. Within a few years instead of only a few games being on each Saturday, almost every Division I game is on TV every Saturday.
The new NIL policy is more of the same. IMHO it'll be a struggle at first to keep up the "no I in 'team'" mindset when every player wants that highlight reel play to help him sign a contract. But in a way we already have that with every college player wanting to be the superstar money maker with a Nike contract right after college.
My prediction is this will become a new normal like TV contracts and the forward pass and Tennessee will keep losing as always.
Affirmative action and quotas are on their way, it's already happening in the NFL. Affirmative action will reduce the quality of coaching as predictably as the Sun rising in the East.
Huge difference. Lots of college “students” already have the professional mindset. They just want to choose how they get paid, and how much.
This means players who play by the rules can finally make as much as cheaters. This, of course, excludes point shavers, unless that was also part of the NCAA deal.
Sports gambling is keeping college and professional sports afloat.
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