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Coach Calipari has some suggestions for the NCAA in his new book
Posted on 4/10/14 at 10:47 am
Posted on 4/10/14 at 10:47 am
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"The situation reminds me a little of the Soviet Union in its last years. It was still powerful. It could still hurt you. But you could see it crumbling, and it was just a matter of time before it either changed or ceased to exist," Calipari writes in his new book, according to a report in The Wall Street Journal.
The outspoken coach has numerous ideas as to how to reform the college experience from the athlete's point of view, but said his suggestions have fallen on deaf ears from the NCAA.
"I think we could have gotten somewhere with me as the point man, but the NCAA was not interested in my help," Calipari said, according to the WSJ. "The message I got, between the lines, was, 'No, not you. Not Calipari. We don't want him involved.'"
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Among his ideas presented in "Players First: Coaching From the Inside Out," which is scheduled to be published on Tuesday, the WSJ reported that Calipari presents a 13-point plan for NCAA reform. Among them:
• Players should receive a stipend between $3,000 to $5,000;
• The NCAA should cover eligible players' insurance premiums;
• Athletes should be able to accept loans up to $50,000 against future earnings;
• If a coach leaves an institution, players should be able to transfer from that program without having to sit out a season;
• Athletes should be allowed one round-trip flight home every year.
Posted on 4/10/14 at 10:51 am to Na Mean
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Among his ideas presented in "Players First: Coaching From the Inside Out," which is scheduled to be published on Tuesday, the WSJ reported that Calipari presents a 13-point plan for NCAA reform. Among them:
• Players should receive a stipend between $3,000 to $5,000;
• The NCAA should cover eligible players' insurance premiums;
• Athletes should be able to accept loans up to $50,000 against future earnings;
• If a coach leaves an institution, players should be able to transfer from that program without having to sit out a season;
• Athletes should be allowed one round-trip flight home every year.
I agree with everything besides the $50k loan. This will get a lot of kids in trouble
Posted on 4/10/14 at 10:52 am to Na Mean
cal will be running to the nba soon when the ncaa comes at him like they did daddy dale
Posted on 4/10/14 at 10:52 am to Na Mean
So what's wrong with his suggestions?
Posted on 4/10/14 at 10:53 am to Na Mean
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Players should receive a stipend between $3,000 to $5,000;
Thats 2 billion dollars across all 400k+ NCAA athletes
Posted on 4/10/14 at 10:57 am to barry
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Thats 2 billion dollars across all 400k+ NCAA athletes
Bingo.
I could get on board with paying revenue sports a stipend, but with Title IX, there's no way paying athletes is economically possible anymore. That ship has sailed.
Posted on 4/10/14 at 11:00 am to NikolaiJakov
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Title IX of the Equal Opportunity Act, in pertinent part, states that “[n]o person in the United States shall, on the basis of sex, be excluded from participation in, be denied the benefits of, or be subjected to discrimination under any education program or activity receiving Federal financial assistance.” While this statute was originally drafted to apply to “any education program,” most Title IX lawsuits today involve college athletics.
Past case law explains that Title IX prevents discriminatory practices by colleges in creating athletic teams and providing athletic scholarships. However, Title IX does not directly touch upon whether there is a requirement of equal financial terms for all student-athletes, above and beyond their athletic scholarships.
Courts have rarely analyzed Title IX in terms of pay — perhaps because NCAA members have historically fixed student-athlete pay at $0 despite the obvious antitrust risks of doing so.
However, in those rare instances where pay issues have emerged under Title IX, courts have typically viewed the act as coextensive with the Equal Pay Act of 1963 and the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Thus, courts have upheld greater pay for male coaches where the male coaches’ work has been found to involve greater “skill, effort or responsibility.”
While the terms “skill, effort or responsibility” are rather opaque, the ability to generate revenue is one factor that seems to fall reasonably within this criteria. For example, in Stanley v. University of Southern California, 13 F.3d 1313 (9th Cir. 1994), the U.S. Court for Appeals for the Ninth Circuit noted that it may be permissible for the University of Southern California to offer higher pay to its men’s basketball coach because the men’s team generated far greater annual revenues.
Posted on 4/10/14 at 11:01 am to trident
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• If a coach leaves an institution, players should be able to transfer from that program without having to sit out a season;
So what do you do with the players who were already on the new program?
ETA: I misunderstood. I agree with this. I read it as follow the coach.
This post was edited on 4/10/14 at 11:04 am
Posted on 4/10/14 at 11:02 am to Na Mean
The players being allowed to leave when a coach leaves should be implemented tomorrow.
Posted on 4/10/14 at 11:03 am to trident
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I agree with everything besides the $50k loan. This will get a lot of kids in trouble
I think it will be ok if they are super strict with it.
Posted on 4/10/14 at 11:30 am to barry
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Thats 2 billion dollars across all 400k+ NCAA athletes
Well, let's reduce it to scholarship athletes, and make it part of the schollie. That's 138,000. And that number includes Division 2. There's only 139,000 athletes in all of Division 1.
So, right out of the box, let's reduce the proposed stipend to Division 1 scholarship athletes. I don't have a precise number, but let's put it at 100,000 (which is way too high). Now, a $5000 stipend for all athletes would cost $500 million. The TV deal for March Madness alone is worth nearly a billion a year. ($10.8b over 14 years).
A $5000 stipend is workable within Title IX. It would take some work, but it is quite doable. And this is without a reorg, which is coming, and overestimating the number of scholarship athletes in D1.
Posted on 4/10/14 at 11:41 am to Baloo
Lulz, heartbreak tiger so mad at UK and Cal. So sad. Your prediction of UK crashing did not come true.
Posted on 4/10/14 at 11:49 am to trident
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I agree with everything besides the $50k loan. This will get a lot of kids in trouble
Well it did say loans up to $50k. So wouldn't this be handled like any other student loan across the country? You borrow for either tuition, fees, or living expenses while in college and pay them back upon starting work. So if they stay 4 years, maybe take out $12,500 per year for living expenses. Just over $1k a month and that would cover anything they'd truly need in college.
Student loan rates are usually pretty low. I looked at paying my wife's off a year or two ago, but we're so far into it now (was originally a 10 year term) that the interest I would have saved by paying it early was less than $30 over the two years left at that time.
Posted on 4/10/14 at 11:54 am to Baloo
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A $5000 stipend is workable within Title IX. It would take some work, but it is quite doable. And this is without a reorg, which is coming, and overestimating the number of scholarship athletes in D1.
It would still inevitably end up with lots of non-revenue sports teams getting the ax
Posted on 4/10/14 at 12:13 pm to Na Mean
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• Players should receive a stipend between $3,000 to $5,000;
• The NCAA should cover eligible players' insurance premiums;
• Athletes should be able to accept loans up to $50,000 against future earnings;
no
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If a coach leaves an institution, players should be able to transfer from that program without having to sit out a season;
• Athletes should be allowed one round-trip flight home every year.
yes
his kids are making over 50k anyway, he's just trying to hide it with that faux loan proposal
This post was edited on 4/10/14 at 12:15 pm
Posted on 4/10/14 at 12:17 pm to Carson123987
Hell with these "loans", just go on and let athletes sign shoe deals, endorsements, etc.
Posted on 4/10/14 at 1:14 pm to Na Mean
He's right as usual, but stipulations on the loan money for sure.
Posted on 4/10/14 at 1:24 pm to kywildcatfanone
Calipari has been instituting his plan from the beginning.
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