re: Have to do a speech on why college athletes should NOT get paid.

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-it's a slippery slope to go down. Let's say every player gets X amount of money. Ok...so in a few years what happens when your heisman winning QB complains that he makes as much as the backup punter? Eventually it could lead to price disparity which is just going to be a battle that no real CFB should want

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Nobody talks about this point and its one of the biggest ones IMO. How do you determine which player gets paid a certain amount? You can't. A Freshman 5 Star QB can come in and have tons of jersey sales and get paid without ever playing a down while a the 5th Year All American OG could potentially not get a dime. Could an athlete sue if he feels the school is not compensating him with the correct proportion of of his value for the team? Could a player have grounds to transfer without sitting out if he thinks another player at his position is getting unjustly paid more? Say goodbye to any kind of team chemistry.

Great points all around though. When people say schools make all of this money off the backs of these athletes, they usually cry about the Manziel types who are the stars. For every one of him, there are a few hundred whoare nameless. So this whole issue is about compensating a handful of players out of several thousand every year.

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colluded

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That's the word I was looking for earlier when discussing the NFL, NBA, and NCAA

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As a former college athlete, I'm more concerned with the disability pension after you get out.

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This is a great point

Also, what kind of class is this for?

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Allow boosters to pay whoever they want. Take the responsibility away from the school and allow alums to support programs however hey see fit. 

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I agree, or let them sell their likeness

They receive more money in stipends than most college students working part time.

Ohio state for instance athletes receive around $1,600 per month plus food.

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It's a full time job that requires waking up at 5am a good bit and not getting home until past 10. Spring ball is actually really busy

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Football? Baseball? what sport?

NCAA only allows a certain amount of practice time.

Football

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NCAA only allows a certain amount of practice time. 

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Practice time =\ workouts, meetings, film review, mandatory study sessions, etc

Not to mention that players host their own practices

Take a guy like Bregman. Guarantee he goes over the NCAA time, but it is considered private practice sessions

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It's a full time job that requires waking up at 5am a good bit and not getting home until past 10. Spring ball is actually really busy 

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I worked 2 partime jobs through out college.

40 hours per week at $7.00 per hour= $280 per week before taxes so I think they have a pretty good deal.

Per LSU:

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In State/Out of State
Tuition & Fees $8,758/$26,476
Housing $6,120/$6,120
Meal Plan $4,186/$4,186
Books & Supplies $1,500/$1,500
Total $20,564/$38,282

In-State Totals X 4 year college athletic career = $82,256

Out of State Totals X 4 year college athletics career = $153,128

For 5th year seniors, that pushes In-State totals to over $100K/$190K.

This doesn't include the stipends they get, the free world class health care they get, the top-flight nutritional and training assistance they get, the world-class athletic instruction and coaching they receive, the life-skills and personal development opportunities they receive through their coaches as well as the CHAMPS Life Skills Program, nor the priority scheduling, staggering tutoring and mentoring advantages they receive over normal students from Day 1, the preferred housing they receive, etc.

Oh and let's not forget the Summer Jobs program they receive. You think they aren't getting preferential work treatment? Get real. It ain't on paper but its there. Those employers are paying for access using their jobs programs.

Oh and one last thing: Bowl game swag and apparel. There's so much Nike/Adidas/Under Armor available to kids who belong to the program its unbelievable. Stuff that is super expensive that the typical starving college student can't obtain. The bowl swag is Flat-screens, Bulova Watches, X-Box, etc.

I also think players get a stipend from LSU already as well.

They-and anyone else who thinks they should be paid-need to get a grip on reality.

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There are many, many, student athletes outside of power conference football and basketball. Only around 5-7 (look it up for sure) athletic departments are self-sustaining.

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Seven schools don't receive any outside subsidies (LSU, Nebraska, Ohio State, Oklahoma, Penn State, Purdue, Texas) LINK. About 20 schools currently make a profit using the accounting that is often cited saying schools can't afford the stipends (revenues minus expenses minus subsidies) LINK. These numbers are skewed for two reasons:
1) many of these Ath. depts actually have net revenue when you factor in the subsidies they receive. These funds exist whether or not the players are paid. AD's love getting the funds, but they don't like counting them when they are telling everyone how broke they are.
2) athletic departments have a habit of spending every dollar of revenue to justify the constant raising of prices. So if they have to pay players, many would be able to trim some fat in their budgets to cover the costs.

For Example, West Virginia is #21 on the 'profitable' list with an operating "deficit".
$73,245,211 in revenue (minus subsidies)
$73,501,593 in expenses
$256,382 = amount of deficit they have
$4,461,487 is the subsidy they receive. Which means without any changes, they are operating with over a $4 million surplus but according to NCAA accounting, they aren't 'profitable' and couldn't afford to pay a stipend.

Will paying players hurt the lower tier schools? Of course. But don't think for a second that schools like Ole Miss, Auburn, Tenn, would be having financial issues if they had to shell out a small stipend to the players. The money is there.

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Athletic departments are trying to walk a rhetorical tightrope. They want to hide their profits to make it easier to keep them away from other would-be claimants. They also want to avoid looking so poor that other stakeholders within academia use sports' apparent poverty to strip them of power. Rhetoric that turns a price into a cost, and a transfer of profit into a loss of money, helps play a role in confusing things enough that the moment in the magic trick where the profit is moved from one pocket to the other gets obscured.

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