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Yahoo Sports rips NC$$ on Amateurism
Posted on 3/22/19 at 8:31 am
Posted on 3/22/19 at 8:31 am
These guys need to figure out which side they're on! LINK
"You have these huge TV contracts and you can pay 10 coaches on the staff $1 million [each] but you can’t pay the players? It’s doesn’t make sense. It’s garbage. And everybody knows it’s garbage."
"“The NCAA, they’re all crooks. It’s extortion of these players, because they’re all beat up. In April I see 350 physicals [of draft-eligible players] and listen to all the injuries and it’s just brutal. They’re 22-years-old and we can’t draft him or we knock ‘em down the draft board and the doctor says we might be able to get one contact out of him."
"You have these huge TV contracts and you can pay 10 coaches on the staff $1 million [each] but you can’t pay the players? It’s doesn’t make sense. It’s garbage. And everybody knows it’s garbage."
"“The NCAA, they’re all crooks. It’s extortion of these players, because they’re all beat up. In April I see 350 physicals [of draft-eligible players] and listen to all the injuries and it’s just brutal. They’re 22-years-old and we can’t draft him or we knock ‘em down the draft board and the doctor says we might be able to get one contact out of him."
This post was edited on 3/22/19 at 8:33 am
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Posted on 3/22/19 at 8:32 am to RockChalkTiger
yahoo is against kids getting paid though.
Posted on 3/22/19 at 8:33 am to RockChalkTiger
Title IX is the reason they really can’t pay them.
Posted on 3/22/19 at 8:36 am to RockChalkTiger
Yahoo probably has more than one writer with more than one opinion.
Posted on 3/22/19 at 8:42 am to Geauxld Finger
quote:
Title IX is the reason they really can’t pay them.
Disagree. Paying players would instantly open the NCAA to antitrust lawsuits. Even if Title IX didn’t require equal taxpayer funding for male & female athletes, The Sherman Antitrust Act of 1890 would prevent the NCAA from paying the football players.
Some argue that the NCAA is already violating antitrust laws.
Forbes on NCAA Antitrust Violations
Posted on 3/22/19 at 8:46 am to RockChalkTiger
There is an easy fix.
Inducements from academic institutions need to be controlled by the NCAA. Fore example colleges can only provides the following to prospective college atheletes:
1. Scholarship.
2. Housing.
3. Food.
4. Stipend.
5. Books and supplies.
6. and whatever else the NCAA wants to control.
Outside of NCAA regulations let the free market work. Let fans pay kids to go to certain schools. There is nothing wrong with this. This is how business is done everyday.
Inducements from academic institutions need to be controlled by the NCAA. Fore example colleges can only provides the following to prospective college atheletes:
1. Scholarship.
2. Housing.
3. Food.
4. Stipend.
5. Books and supplies.
6. and whatever else the NCAA wants to control.
Outside of NCAA regulations let the free market work. Let fans pay kids to go to certain schools. There is nothing wrong with this. This is how business is done everyday.
Posted on 3/22/19 at 8:46 am to victoire sécurisé
College football players do get paid! Legally per the NCAA even!
Posted on 3/22/19 at 8:51 am to victoire sécurisé
It's time for the Power Five to exit the NCAA and start their own league.
Posted on 3/22/19 at 9:26 am to GumboPot
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It's time for the Power Five to exit the NCAA and start their own league
I agree. Time for a semi-pro League sponsored by P5 Universities. The same way MLB teams sponsor minor league teams. Let all the 4 and 5 Star athletes go to the semi-pro League before going pro.
I want to see the purity of competition return to University athletics. Played by low star athletes who plan on having real world careers after college and know that this is their last time to play the sport they love. I want to see College athletics full of guys like Skylar Mays. Amateurism is what we love about college sports. The fame and the money has corrupted that.
It's time to separate these players that are using collegiate athletics as a vehicle to a pro career from the true amateurs that are playing for the love of their University and sport.
Posted on 3/22/19 at 9:38 am to GumboPot
quote:
Outside of NCAA regulations let the free market work. Let fans pay kids to go to certain schools. There is nothing wrong with this. This is how business is done everyday.
Would not work. Horrible idea.
Posted on 3/22/19 at 9:50 am to nola000
quote:
I want to see the purity of competition return to University athletics. Played by low star athletes who plan on having real world careers after college and know that this is their last time to play the sport they love. I want to see College athletics full of guys like Skylar Mays. Amateurism is what we love about college sports. The fame and the money has corrupted that.
As long as alumni of one school value bragging over the alumni of another school based on the exploits of "students" playing on a gridiron or hardwood court, there will be an incentive to corrupt the system.
There has never been a significant time when college sports weren't corrupt. Players were getting paid a century ago.
Posted on 3/22/19 at 9:56 am to RockChalkTiger
Yahoo Sports was QUOTING AN NFL EXECUTIVE.
Could you at least try to write an honest subject line?
Could you at least try to write an honest subject line?
Posted on 3/22/19 at 10:03 am to GumboPot
quote:
Inducements from academic institutions need to be controlled by the NCAA
The NCAA needs to be rebuilt from the ground up. LOL But I like your "fix"
Posted on 3/22/19 at 10:28 am to RockChalkTiger
quote:Refusing the click bait. The comments are moronic at best. You have 85 players on a football team getting housing, meals, medical treatment (not just for sports!), books, a stipend, and oh yeah! A free edcuation that - let's be honest here - many couldn't qualify for alone if their life depended on it. Sure, go ahead, pay them more - and remove all the rest.
These guys need to figure out which side they're on! LINK
"You have these huge TV contracts and you can pay 10 coaches on the staff $1 million [each] but you can’t pay the players? It’s doesn’t make sense. It’s garbage. And everybody knows it’s garbage."
"“The NCAA, they’re all crooks. It’s extortion of these players, because they’re all beat up. In April I see 350 physicals [of draft-eligible players] and listen to all the injuries and it’s just brutal. They’re 22-years-old and we can’t draft him or we knock ‘em down the draft board and the doctor says we might be able to get one contact out of him."
For those wanting an 'open market', be careful what you wish for. Take MLB for example - teams like the Marlins don't have the same money to spend like the Yankees, whom can buy competitiveness every year. You really want to see a Louisian school get into outright spending competitions with schools in Texas, California, New York, etc? You think its bad what Bama does now, but make it legal and you may as well kiss LSU relevance goodbye.
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