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re: College football players are they being taken advantage of?
Posted on 12/16/13 at 4:30 pm to JustSmokin
Posted on 12/16/13 at 4:30 pm to JustSmokin
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What about women's sports
What about em? Football revenues are one of the main reasons they are even funded.
If the NCAA allowed universities to pay football players, I don't think that should mean every athlete in every sport gets paid. Hell then entire premise of why football players would get paid is because of the revenue they generate.
Women's athletics generates no revenue (save for things like Baylor or Tennessee Basketball, and even then I'm not sure).
If your sport doesn't generate a "profit", then the athlete's don't get paid.
Do a majority of college basketball programs come out on the positive side? I know for sure baseball has very limited teams that sustain themselves.
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Posted on 12/16/13 at 4:36 pm to dcrews
quote:You are naïve. Most schools have more women's sport teams than men's teams because of football and Title IX. No way football gets away with paying players and not the woman's basketball team. Not going to happen unless a certain collection of schools break away from the NCAA.
If the NCAA allowed universities to pay football players, I don't think that should mean every athlete in every sport gets paid. Hell then entire premise of why football players would get paid is because of the revenue they generate.
Posted on 12/16/13 at 4:41 pm to dcrews
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What about em? Football revenues are one of the main reasons they are even funded.
Look up Title 9. Schools don't have all those women sports for the hell of it. Most would not exist if it wasn't required by law. Trust me, all hell would break loose with the lib crowd and lawsuits would rule the day.
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If your sport doesn't generate a "profit", then the athlete's don't get paid.
Some football programs make more than others. Would you allow those schools who make more to give players more? If yes, then recruits would be choosing schools on how much they get paid.
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Do a majority of college basketball programs come out on the positive side? I know for sure baseball has very limited teams that sustain themselves.
There are some schools like Kentucky who makes a ton of money in basketball. I'm sure those players want a piece of the pie just like football players.
Posted on 12/16/13 at 6:14 pm to JustSmokin
I have three daughters so the "other than a free education" bit doesn't fly with me!
Posted on 12/16/13 at 6:24 pm to liquid rabbit
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Do you know how much that costs nowadays? Room & board, etc. A free ride is big $$$$
There was an article posted on the MSB a while back showing that the school actually lays out no money to provide the scholarship, but the money returned by football players is exponential. I'll try to find the link.
Posted on 12/16/13 at 6:38 pm to classof72
I'll say this, for a student athlete it surely fills like it. You're spending all of these hours in practice, meetings, lifting. Not to mention all the time and energy of going to class and doing your work for those who actually take their education seriously. Ill tell you it feels like youre a slave at times. You have no money, but youre working twice as hard as the average student. You ask yourself why do i put myself through this sometimes. But ill tell you, when its 20 years later and all of your friends are still paying off their loans. That is when you really see the results of all your hard work.
ETA: i have always been of the opinion that ncaa should never pay student athletes. But i would like to see the rules change. I think players should be able to earn money off of their own likeness, but nothing thats actually facilitated by the school
ETA: i have always been of the opinion that ncaa should never pay student athletes. But i would like to see the rules change. I think players should be able to earn money off of their own likeness, but nothing thats actually facilitated by the school
This post was edited on 12/16/13 at 6:44 pm
Posted on 12/16/13 at 6:40 pm to classof72
For the great majority of college athletes it's a helluva good deal. You get free room and board, free coaching, free media exposure, and women throwing themselves at you for as long as you stay. Oh, and there's the education bit, some of them don't care about it but some do.
If you are a superstar athlete then it's a bad deal but they generally don't stay four years anyway.
One could argue that football athletes should get paid extra simply because of the revenue the sport brings in, and I'd listen to that argument. If there's one group that could benefit from union representation it would be them. Everyone else should STFU and enjoy the freebie.
If you are a superstar athlete then it's a bad deal but they generally don't stay four years anyway.
One could argue that football athletes should get paid extra simply because of the revenue the sport brings in, and I'd listen to that argument. If there's one group that could benefit from union representation it would be them. Everyone else should STFU and enjoy the freebie.
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