The shame of college football is that they won’t pay their players. Or allow them to make money from endorsements. Why is that?
Because they don’t want to share the billions from college football with the actual wealth generators.
How does that square with the free market?
Let’s retire the fiction that at the big schools, there’s such a thing as a student- athlete. There are students and there are athletes. Football at a big school is a sixty-hour-a-week job.
Of what use to them is their free degree in Communications? They’re never in a classroom or the library — football at that level and getting an education are incompatible.
And so what? Talent is talent; let them make some money. Most of these guys will never make the NFL. They will never have a better opportunity to make money with their skills than while they are college football stars.
What I’d like to see happen is every single big school football team go on strike simultaneously. The NCAA should work for THEM, not the other way round.
Pay them. And let them sell their names to Nike.
The system we have now is un-American.
The NCAA is located here in Indianapolis. Like many “non-profits” they have a palatial hq building and a multitude of well paid bureaucrats and major domos.
I agree. And eventually there will be a lawsuit. If College Football didn't exist, NFL will be forced to establish the minor leagues for their top prospects. And they'll get paid while they're training for "The Show" just like in baseball.