re: LSU Mentioned in Real Sports Report on CFB Recruiting Violations

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Everyone makes money in CFB exept for those who generate it

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This shite really gets to me. Exxon cranked out a $45.2 billion dollar profit, and no where did you see or hear Exxon employees or the media exclaiming that the those who made $55K a year at Exxon should be making even more.

If you go to Notre Dame, the university's Office of Financial Aid recommends you sock away $55,620 a year for school. To pay that bill in after-tax income, you would need to have a salary of around $70,000 and that is not counting any insurance premiums.

If you do not think paying a college athlete the real world equivalent of $70,000 a year to play college football is fair, then I am not sure we have much else to talk about.

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They still come out millions ahead

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And that always ends up being the crux of the argument: they are making money, so they must be evil/punished/wrong/etc. Who cares? The kids as players are getting a lot of value in exchange for playing a game, we as fans get to enjoy great entertainment, the networks and sponsors as businesses get to makes some money, and the schools as educational institutions get to defray some of the costs of their educational mission. What's the problem?

Exxon employs 82,000 people to make that much of a NECESSITY..
Which ammounts to 550k generated per person..
I bet if you put them on tv 11 times a year for 3 hours and fed them that stat there would be plenty of complaining.

The notre dame football team "employs" what? let's say 150 people to make 46 million for entertainment (virtually)..
around 366k per person... and basically 70 percent of those kids will never see the field on gameday..
If you take the 40 (real) "earners" plus 3 coaches.. that's about 1.05 million per person.

Plus the exxon comparison doesn't really count. nowhere does it say you can't sell your shoes to someone willing to pay 3 grand if you want to work here again..

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Plus the exxon comparison doesn't really count. nowhere does it say you can't sell your shoes to someone willing to pay 3 grand if you want to work here again..

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I am against paying athletes. I am fine if a player wants to sell their memorabilia, but there needs to be some sort of agreed upon value so a top-player is capped out at say $5,000 for their helmet. If there is not a cap, some booster may go out there and offer insane amounts of money to just launder it back to the player.

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Exxon cranked out a $45.2 billion dollar profit, and no where did you see or hear Exxon employees or the media exclaiming that the those who made $55K a year at Exxon should be making even more.

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I know plenty of people employed by Exxon that make at least twice that and they ask for more every year

I think Whit just coughed up half a ham sammich mid-sentence

Do you think all college athletes should be paid or just football players?

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o you think all college athletes should be paid or just football players?

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unfortunately the laws of a free market economy apply to college athletics but not within it (if that makes any sense)

realistically, today's modern politics wouldnt allow only some athletes to be paid. I think there is a happy medium to where every student athlete could get a stipend but scalable based on what sport you pay/revenue said sport generates

the biggest problem in that is that the NCAA would likely interject some ridiculous rule that whatever each student gets monetarily would like have to be standard across all schools.

purely for an example, say football players get $25k per season, women's diving gets $10k. But the NCAA would likely mandate that USL, Cal, & Pitt players all get the same amount...then the infighting begins, and we're back to a bigger pile of donkey shite than before

so did anyone watch this thing or are we done talking about it?

also, can some of you quit saying statue of limitations? there is no statue anywhere that yall are talking about.

Shoot. We should start secretly filming ourselves giving rival players money. We could bring the entire NCAA football program down. Of course act and dress like your a fan of the rival. This allegation is Ridiculous. They're all ridiculous.