Will the courts allow the players to be paid

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A decision will be ruled on in San Francisco should collages pay players for athletic services .

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What happens when the football players make more than the rest of the student athletes?

If they pay players Alabama will win ever Championship for ever.

Ole Miss will be good

it will not be fair if it allowed.

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I highly doubt there's only of "handful" of AD's making a profit.TV and Playoff money has doubled and in some cases tripled over the last 10 years.Hell,you just hired a DC for $2.5 million per year.

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You realize what Athletic departments spend? Golf team cost LSU a million last year

Athletic departments that make more than they spend still a minority

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The expenses generated by operating athletics programs continued to exceed the revenue they produce at the vast majority of Football Bowl Subdivision schools in 2014, continuing a trend seen in recent years, according to a new NCAA Study.

Only 24 FBS schools generated more revenue than they spent in 2014, according to the NCAA Revenues and Expenses of Division I Intercollegiate Athletics Programs Report

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The median FBS school spent $14.7 million to help subsidize its athletics department in 2014, up from a little more than $11 million in 2013.

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So do you want to eliminate other amateur collegiate sports and make the NCAA minor league football farms only, or reduce the D1 schools to around an NFL number?

I’m up for the latter, but to pretend all these FBS schools are rolling around in money is ridiculous. A lot of schools (almost all) will fight it, not being able to survive as athletic departments without the revenue that comes with being attached to these big time fanbases.
These schools aren’t nfl franchises with an owner sitting around fattening his bank account. They are Athletic departments with a lot of non profit sports to support providing opportunities for student athletes across the board


NCAA finances 15-16 season
^ Another look at expenses

In the PAC12 Washington and UCLA are in the top 30 nationally in terms of gross revenue, Washington lost 3mil and UCLA didn’t make a dime.
Those football players are getting an expensive education for free though (well over 6 figures) on top of cash stipends, most wouldn’t even meet admission standards as regular students and be given the opportunity to buy that education

Cry me a river. Canada is right up the road, and arena league paychecks are scattered all across the states. Their choice, and they typically choose better coaching, access to top facilities, better platform to showcase talent to the NFL, and free a education. Not to mention a hell of an experience.

The thing is even if the voodoo were worth a shite if it’s not my school I’m just cheering for the saints. Who cheers for a minor league baseball team?

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I'm all for it under one condition. They must bank it until they graduate. No degree, no pay. As simple as that. The NFL money will still be there for those that leave after three years but they won't get the cash from the University if they leave before graduating.

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That's a really good idea.

I would also support allowing players to be paid a set amount per autograph. But to keep certain schools *cough* Alabama *cough* from just buying an obscene amount of autographs themselves, they will all have to be sold through an official NCAA exchange. And they wouldn't be able to just autograph 10,000 pictures. They only get paid for the number of autographed memorabilia that was sold to individual consumers & no bulk purchasing would be allowed. Combine this with HubbaBubba's idea, and I think it would be acceptable.

Notre Dame has already said they will drop to FCS rather than pay players. It is going to be interesting to see what the outcome of this is. If a large number of schools follow suit, FBS could end up being the victim. Imagine a scenario in which actual athletically inclined students suit up for the old alma mater instead of the fastest, strongest, and stupidest from every urban ghetto America.

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Kids may give up other sports they have a future in to ride the pine and get paid for football. But in reality you will have to pay them all (all sports).

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What about racial quotas? Will whites get adjusted 40 times?

Paying college athletes is a terrible idea and it will result in so many unintended negative consequences including ruining a sport that so many people live to watch.

This is going to end women’s collegiate and men’s olymipc sports as the schools will cut all sports that lose money. The only sports left will be football, some basketball, and some baseball

Then you have the research students that do great things for universities that would deserve to be paid as well at this point. They work on research projects brought in by the govt and large corporations and help the university make money as well. a ruling to pay players would wreak havoc on colleges. Many would likely just kill sports all together.