He was a football player at the school
I don’t watch the garbage anymore anyhow so they can do what the frak they want in my book.
Do we need another Federally controlled pro game? :)
It is probable that the young man who killed himself had dreams of fame and fortune, and a life doing anything except sports was a failure. Think about it... maybe 4 months of work, an enormous paycheck, and you get to goof off the rest of the year. OR....at least that’s what they THINK is the ‘reality’ of it. And the idea of fame and fortune is a BIG motivator for a young man with sports skills.
Many young men and women nowadays eschew the idea of...*ugh* hard work. They look for the ‘magic bullet’ that will set them up for life, or they think they can rely on the government to care for them. Their parents either don’t attempt to dissuade them of this, or they have tried, but the kids don’t get it or don’t want to.
OOPS, sorry Kaslin..
Cory thinks the feral government should be in charge of bread and circuses.
How does he plan on attracting viewers...?
Or will this be like PBS?
Firstly, that most did not get into college is a good thing. They avoided the postmodernism brain-washing and went on to do honest work at an actual job — like from a trade school.
Secondly, letting an organization diddle with profit calcs will go the same way that selling your book to Hollywood for a movie deal. Your contract will award you %age of profits — which will be calculated to never exist.
uh, NO
I watched a little of the Northwestern bowl game. The announcer mentioned how tough the NW players had it because they had to eat boxed lunches while they stayed in Florida.
About ten seconds later, he altered his statement by saying others had it worse. Maybe someone told him the statement needed to be clarified.
Yup, a free trip to Florida in December-January, staying at a hotel likely, getting free tuition at a prestigeous college while getting national TV exposure to play a game. But forced to eat boxed lunches
Very sad about the HS student, but of course not having a football season would be just the proverbial last straw on the camel’s back in such a situation.
Cory wants to take the revenue stream away from the Universities.
He can’t think of something more important to deal with? How about doing nothing?
More laws, more commissions, more giverment. Just stop.
quit sending people to the district of corruption. All they do is screw things up.
“Federally Controlled” sounds kinda like prison. Maybe these will be prisoners playing. That should expand the African-American talent pool.
Instead of Alabama-Notre Dame, we’ll have San Quentin-Leavenworth. Instead of what “class” they’re in, reporters can comment about how many years they’re in for. “The tight end, DeLa’Niq Jones, is in for 10-20 for armed robbery and drug dealing...”
Aside from the fact that Booker’s plan would only reward scholarship players and not walk-ons (why?) there is this little nugget: “$115,600 to men’s basketball players, $19,050 to women’s basketball players”
How long do you think that would be allowed to stand?
Of course by the time this would be implemented, all of the women’s basketball players would be men, so I guess the point is moot.
I bet that several sprint records are shattered as the attorneys race to the courthouse to file Title IX lawsuits.
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.
haven’t spent anytime thinking about this issue, but if Corey Booker is for it, then I am against it.
Am I the only one that thinks $60K tuition may be a bigger part of the problem than the respective positions the two play?