Posted on 02/23/2024 6:32:54 PM PST by nickcarraway
But why shouldn’t the get paid? One in a thousand are going to make the pros. PAY THEM.
The student athlete era was always a lie. The minute coaches started making more than teachers college sports was a BUSINESS. And businesses should pay their employees, ALL of them.
They are paid; scholarship athletes get tuition waivers and room and board. In short, they trade their athletic skills for education. I know now this transaction is all hypocritically ‘winked at’, they don’t really get an education. Perhaps now we can admit the education thing is irrelevant.
Maybe they should be taxed on the tuition, scholarships, etc!
If it’s all just entertainment and an opportunity for alumni to sit in the stands and get plowed like they did when they were young. Let’s admit that and tell the pro leagues to set up a farm system, the universities\colleges can license their names to these farm teams. We all then can continue to pretend there’s such a thing as college\university athletics. The schools, particulate taxpayer supported schools can get back to education. That’s a hard enough problem for them. (Currently failing!)
“In the mid 60s I was the math tutor for the athletic department in an ACC school.”
Good for you. ACC was more academic back then. But. ...
Why did the players need free tutors to pass high school level math?
Not directed at you but I know that a lot of tutor programs were test prep oriented and not to educate.
Back then major colleges used the ACC to pad their schedules.
Two or three college athletes will benefit from this, while every other athlete will slave away in obscurity.
Try selling a t-shirt with the image of a right guard from the university of nowhere.
Slaves aren’t paid.
Scholarship athletes trade their skills to pay for an education. At least that’s the theory, the reality I know is something different. Shouldn’t we then we “pay” over and above tuition, books, room and board those on academic scholarships also? These people are trading their skills for an education just like athletes are theoretically doing. Why should we treat them different? Is it because watching an academic scholarship performing is boring TV?
“And how much money do those players on the football team help deposit into the schools bank account?”
In 2023, the University of Texas Athletics generated $271 million in revenue.
That’s not paid. Those scholarships are a leash. Because the coach can take them away any time. Payment is MONEY in the BANK. A method of controlling your own life. Not a tool for others to control you.
The minute coaches got paid more than teachers we all knew it was entertainment. We just keep lying to ourselves about the “student athlete” myth. For no good reason either. Other than it makes a good structure to not pay the athletes. To maintain some illusion of purity. A very stupid illusion because every other student out there can also make money. You can take software classes AND work. Why were student athletes called out to have to be amateur? It is stupid. It is evil. And it should have ended DECADES ago.
College exist to educate people. College Athletic programs are an added benefit for student-athletes. Because of the time involved, student-athletes are usually provided all expenses required to attend the college.
If college athletics take the road you suggest, then we in the US should do what the Europeans do and form clubs and separate them from the colleges.
That will never happen, I know.
They are disappearing, I know, but I believe in amateur sports.
Doesn’t seem to be much a leash with all these student-athletes moving from college\university to college\university through this portal business!
We were student athletes required to be amateur?
So, classmates of mine can revisit their colleges relive their 20s and get drunk a couple of times a year.
You funny
Not anymore, because the rules got changed. It used to be that to transfer to another school a player would lose a year of eligibility. So a coach could recruit you, then leave, and you were stuck, unless you wanted to not play for a year.
Student athletes were required to be amateur to maintain a lie. It was always a lie. And it’s decades past when that lie should have died.
College athletic programs exist to make money. Problem is that until very recently those student athletes actually got LESS benefits than academic scholarships. The school can give academic scholarship students stipends for food and books and stuff. NCAA rules prohibited athletes from getting stipends until around 2015. Of course non-athlete students are also allowed to make money on the side, which until NIL got forced down the NCAA’s throat students weren’t allowed to.
There’s no reason why college athletics can’t be acknowledged to be a business. Colleges are businesses. Colleges run other businesses within the business of the college. Student union? Business. Bookstore? Business. Logowear being sold in that bookstore? Business. And all those businesses PAY the people working there, even if they’re students. There’s absolutely no reason not to acknowledge sports at the college level as all the other crap on and around the college campus that generates money and pay ALL the people working there, even if they’re students.
I’ve got no problem with amateur sports. Unless those amateur sports are a multi-BILLION dollar business. Then it is NOT an amateur sport, and we should stop lying to ourselves that it is.
I wish people were this concern about actual academics!
Typo
concern = concerned
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