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Posted on 3/30/11 at 11:06 pm to jacks40
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Try making a NFL game doing the same thing using actual NFL players likeness and see how fast you get sued
The players are part of a company (NFL) it isn't the same thing. Why would they sue?
Does EA even pay the NCAA for anything dealing with the players?
Posted on 3/30/11 at 11:09 pm to filmmaker45
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Likenesses or not it's the name that matters
false
You can misappropriate the image of someone wout the name
Posted on 3/30/11 at 11:10 pm to jacks40
I think they should be paid in condoms. It seems like all of them have a kid. Which is the excuse they use when they leave early for the draft.
Posted on 3/30/11 at 11:11 pm to filmmaker45
quote:Life is full of choices, sometimes difficult ones. A student who wants to be a professional athlete has a choice of going to college (and getting an education and showing what he can do at the next level) or foregoing that to provide for his family in the short term by getting a job right out of highschool. Every student with financial difficulties has to make similar choices when the student considers college.
It's unreasonable to ask some dirt poor black kid who needs to provide for his family right away to not get paid anything until after his third year in college.
This post was edited on 3/30/11 at 11:13 pm
Posted on 3/30/11 at 11:11 pm to Colonel Flagg
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The players are part of a company (NFL) it isn't the same thing. Why would they sue?
The names of the players is allowed through a deal with the NFLPA, not the NFL.
They wouldn't sue EA bc they have a deal, my point was if a competing company made a video game and simply used the likeness of players bc EA has exclusive rights then the NFLPA would sue that compnay
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Does EA even pay the NCAA for anything dealing with the players?
The O'bannon lawsuit will find out, and if the NCAA/EA deal mentions anything about player likenesses then bad news for both
This post was edited on 3/30/11 at 11:14 pm
Posted on 3/30/11 at 11:16 pm to jacks40
HELL NO
they are COLLEGE athletes, not pros
what would be the point of pros?
they are COLLEGE athletes, not pros
what would be the point of pros?
Posted on 3/30/11 at 11:16 pm to Cajun Tifoso
People that want college athletes to be paid are dumb.
You have kids out there taking out loans and leaving college with $50,000 worth of debt ... yet every single kid on an athletic scholarship leaves the university with no debt and a scholarship where they are free to make money in the real world. (assuming they don't drop out)
Sounds like college athletes are getting paid to me. Not to mention the benefits they have over other students while in college ...
You have kids out there taking out loans and leaving college with $50,000 worth of debt ... yet every single kid on an athletic scholarship leaves the university with no debt and a scholarship where they are free to make money in the real world. (assuming they don't drop out)
Sounds like college athletes are getting paid to me. Not to mention the benefits they have over other students while in college ...
Posted on 3/30/11 at 11:19 pm to GeorgeTheGreek
A link was posted on here that the average student on athletic scholarship gets roughly $120,000 in benefits annually.
Posted on 3/30/11 at 11:20 pm to GeorgeTheGreek
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Sounds like college athletes are getting paid to me
Not always in equal ratios to what they make the university.
Payinf players is a pie in the sky logistical nightmare, that will never happen and probably shouldn't for many reasons but to argue that NONE of the players deserve more than just college tuition is disingenuous IMO
Posted on 3/30/11 at 11:21 pm to DeafJam73
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College players on a full scholarship get plenty of benefits that not even regular students get.
Posted on 3/30/11 at 11:21 pm to jacks40
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Not always in equal ratios to what they make the university.
I don't think the guy selling iPods at the apple store makes as much as Steve Jobs either ...
Posted on 3/30/11 at 11:22 pm to TN Bhoy
I think rules dictating players selling their own property is retarded.
I also don't really care about money handshakes. We all know it happens and it's a victimless crime.
I also don't really care about money handshakes. We all know it happens and it's a victimless crime.
Posted on 3/30/11 at 11:22 pm to jacks40
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NONE of the players deserve more than just college tuition is disingenuous IMO
If the player is that good, and deserves money like you hint at ... then they will make it in the NFL, NBA, etc ...
Posted on 3/30/11 at 11:22 pm to GeorgeTheGreek
NO!
Some athletes abuse the priviledges already. They get free tuition, books, meals, and other stuff that regular students do not. I don't want to imagine what would happen if they got other monetary gifts on the regular. Some of these athletes already embarrass our alma maters enough as it is without getting paid.
Some athletes abuse the priviledges already. They get free tuition, books, meals, and other stuff that regular students do not. I don't want to imagine what would happen if they got other monetary gifts on the regular. Some of these athletes already embarrass our alma maters enough as it is without getting paid.
Posted on 3/30/11 at 11:23 pm to jacks40
quote:If that is the test, then the swimmers and volley ball players and golf team (and every team except football) should be paying the school, not the other way around.
Not always in equal ratios to what they make the university.
Posted on 3/30/11 at 11:23 pm to SlowFlowPro
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allow players to endorse products and sign deals with marketing people who aren't related to the university without risking eligibility
This. Also let them get a cut of the money from video games made from their likeness.
You think people didn't know who the lefthanded QB wearing #15 for Florida was just because it didn't say Tebow on the back?
Posted on 3/30/11 at 11:24 pm to The Easter Bunny
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it didn't say Tebow on the back?
It didn't say Tebow on the back though did it ...
Posted on 3/30/11 at 11:25 pm to GeorgeTheGreek
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I don't think the guy selling iPods at the apple store makes as much as Steve Jobs either ...
I think the amount of compensation for that person is pretty close to his worth to the company.
I would argue players like Tim Tebow, AJ Green, Andrew Luck etc. their college tuition/compensation alone is not close to the value they have to the University
Posted on 3/30/11 at 11:25 pm to The Easter Bunny
As was already posted, what about the player that gets $100,000 to endorse a Car Dealer just because he signed with the school.
That's paying the player to come. It would be rampant, and whoever paid the most, got the players.
That's paying the player to come. It would be rampant, and whoever paid the most, got the players.
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