re: NFL = Slavery

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I don't think the NCAA should be compared to slavery, but the players sure as frick are getting screwed--in a really shameful way.

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I think the comment is directed towards the millions of dollars being made on college football every year. The thing that gets lost is that most college football programs pour every cent they make back into the program. LSU is one of two exceptions to that rule. If the money being made is being put back into the program that gives an athlete an education and the platform by which he will launch his NFL career, then he is not a slave. He is lucky.

Idiots - it is only "slavery" if you are forced to do it and you have no other options.

These people calling it "slavery" remind me of the morons who accuse anyone besides a government entity of "censorship".

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I don't think the NCAA should be compared to slavery, but the players sure as frick are getting screwed--in a really shameful way.

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Let's go over the shame:
feeding a kid for 4 years
giving him a roof over his head for 4 years
buying his books and other school stuff
allowing him to recieve a degree that cost others thousands to get just in tuition
allowing him to train in state of the art facilities that everyone else doens't get to use, and also have nutritional supplements for the taking
they have access to tutors
they get clothing
they get free healthcare
they get the notariety of being an athlete at whatever university, which usually makes it a lot easier to get a job if you can't go pro, and also easy to get a part-time job while in school

Now after all of this is given to the thousands of kids across the country for free, there's only a handful of universities that actually PROFIT money off of these kids, and that profit goes right back to them, just like the revenue they help bring in.

I would like to have been screwed that way, but i wasn't GIVEN that opportunity.

Exactly Teddy - plus not to mention the fact that these kids hvent proven jack when they get to campus, or the fact that the schools that do make money use that money to do really shameful things like subsidize education, research, and pay professors.

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These would all be good points if the football players were, say, trash collectors or McDonald's employees. But, they're not. They're athletes that are making TONS and TONS of money for the university. And the argument that the universities aren't making money off of these kids is fricking hilarious. Do you really think that if they weren't making money they would continue spending so much on athletics? That they would continue to hemorrhage money for altruistic purposes? Come the frick on... universities are businesses (and really fricking smart ones at that). Even the ones that aren't showing straight profits are still "making" tons of money off of the exposure big-time athletics bring to their universities. It's easy to forget that not all profits are quantifiable...

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This is one of the worst posts in recent memory. Not counting any of my own.

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This is one of the worst posts in recent memory. Not counting any of my own.

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An explanation would be helpful...

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The Saintards would more than likely tiptoe around circlejerking about it.

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Drew Brees is loved and circlejerked because he is the not the type of guy to say something so stupid

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Let's go over the shame:
feeding a kid for 4 years
giving him a roof over his head for 4 years
buying his books and other school stuff
allowing him to recieve a degree that cost others thousands to get just in tuition
allowing him to train in state of the art facilities that everyone else doens't get to use, and also have nutritional supplements for the taking
they have access to tutors
they get clothing
they get free healthcare
they get the notariety of being an athlete at whatever university, which usually makes it a lot easier to get a job if you can't go pro, and also easy to get a part-time job while in school

Now after all of this is given to the thousands of kids across the country for free, there's only a handful of universities that actually PROFIT money off of these kids, and that profit goes right back to them, just like the revenue they help bring in.

I would like to have been screwed that way, but i wasn't GIVEN that opportunity.

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The true debate in this whole issue is some feel that these kids are "given" this opportunity and they get all this stuff for "free" while there others who feel that they weren't "given" shite, they "earned" all of this shite and while we are at it, deserve more.......I don't think no one disagrees with the sentiment that the kids get great treatment in comparison to the average student but I don't think you can compare the two. These kids generate a ton of cash for the Athletic Department which tranlates to the University which translates to the city of Baton Rouge.......the malls are full, the restarants are full, hotels are full, stores make a killing on game day........everybody is getting paid but the "revenue generator". Now you and others can say, "Well, he is getting a free education and there is no price tag on that" and I can say number one, you can put a price tag on it, parents do that every year......and once you do place a price tag on it, I feel that it is not enough based off what they generate.....

No one forces them to sign their LOI. In fact, they seem pretty excited when they do.

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If you can complain about the way NCAA athletes are treated shamefully, you are out of base with reality.

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As I said in my previous post, I don't think that people feel they are treated "shamefully"......we just feel they should be compensated more than what they are for what they generate.........