The Day of Reckoning is coming for big-time college sports, there’s just too much money being made out there.
ohmygosh. If they don’t want to be “exploited” they can give up their scholarships, not play, and get accepted to college based on academic merits.
They are getting paid via scholarship, something they would not be eligible for if it weren’t for football. These big schools need to look to see what happened at Northwestern when their crybaby players wanted to unionize. The university said, how about we just cancel football altogether.
I thought they got scholarships for playing.
If these players are going to demand to get paid, then none of the basketball and football games will be broadcast on regular TV. They'll have to become PPV to accomodate the higher costs incurred by the NCAA.
Make them study or go back to the ghetto.
Easy solution, don’t let Blacks on the teams...
Crap. I should not have had to pay tuition to Stanford for my degree. I want free money. I want a lot of it. And I want it NOW.
Universities should sell the rights to their teams for whatever they can get and use the money to defray tuition costs for overburdened students. Let whatever team is formed be run like a business paying royalties to their university.
Players should not have to attend class, as they are employees. Have an age cap, and maximum eligibility time. Be done with it.
yeah. Seriously screwing the blacks. Free education....free grades.....how awful.
I bet NCAA football player's conpensation, in room & board, and the value of their scholarship, compares pretty favorably to an average Single A baseball minor leaguer.
I hate organized sports. So barbaric and pointless. Put some of those fellows in lion country in Africa during lean season and see who can run for the touchdown. Reality TV, baby.
Back in the seventies and eighties Howard Cosell was proposing minor leagues pro sports near the universities to restore academic standards and make things equitable for academically challenged athletes.
Well, on. The leader is the quarterback, Jake Coker, and he's white. And dig this! He's also NOT being paid.
I find it interesting that only exploitation of black athletes is the focus of the article. It seems to me that there are quite a few white players who are in the same situation as the black players. Are they not being exploited as well? Or does only the black players’ exploitation matter?
This is a really easy matter to fix if it’s really hurting black athletes so disproportionately: establish quotas for white athletes so white athletes can help shoulder the burden equally, and thereby completely eliminate the putative racial aspect to the situation.
First of all, this is a racist article. Period. What about other minorities on the team, or any college team for that matter?
On my college fencing team, we had whites (Italians, Irish, Jewish, Ukrainian etc,; blacks (one was a good friend of Bill Cosby); Asia Indian; a part-Chinese coach, and a few people we could never identify as to their origins.
We had no scholarships for years. However, in my last two years, several needy fencers got a $500 sports scholarship (which in those days helped pay for tuition for one semester).
We produced three All-American fencers in two years (two were repeaters), won two MAC championships, and placed in a tie for 5th at the NCAA Championships in 1966.
We dumped enough trophies on the Athletic Director’s desk after the ‘66 season that it broke.
We actually went from a so-called cheese and roast beef (alley rat, by the tail) sandwiches and a soda or juice on road trips, to real meals at real restaurants during those last two years.
Meanwhile we had to keep up our grades for eligibility. A few had outside jobs, including myself.
In the end, it was our love of the sport, excellent coaches, and a tremendous team spirit that carried us through a rebuilding to eventually having a ten-year consecutive run of MAC championships.
In those days it was an honor to be on a varsity team. Today, too many look at it as a paycheck-in-the-making. I don’t begrudge them becoming professionals if they have earned it, but the purpose of going to college is to get an education in order to get a job in the future (as most college grads have to do in the course of their normal life).
It is time to revise the whole college sports world and start putting education back in the equation. That is why one goes to college in the first place.
The left will kill football within 10 years.
Some College football players are making in excess of $60,000 a year legitimately.
Last year we went to see them play South Florida in Tampa. Tickets were 6 bucks, $6.00. 6 flipping dollars.
They just played Sunday, cheapest tickets we could get were $73.00! All other home games...$6.00!