I agree the athlete should be compensated if the school is selling his or her jersey. They could also set up autograph sessions with very strict oversite and if rules are broken severe penalties would be enforced. However, the athlete receives tuition, room, board, and books. Plus athletes aren’t faced with hugh student loans upon graduation or exhausting their eligibility.
Why not go pure pro, take the sports, the money and the corruption out of the college? Take your farm team system elsewhere and make it pay for itself.
This is a very slippery slope and people will find ways around any rules set up. The colleges with the big money backers will have a tremendous recruiting advantage. The value of an athletic scholarship or even being a walk-on on the team is at least double what the normal costs are. When you consider the free tutoring, special meals and other incidentals available to athletes it is a tremendous value that is normally overlooked. When talking about the players who deserve compensation for using their name and likeness to sell jerseys etc. it is very seldom more than one or two players on the team. However this will provide that compensation for all the players on the team because how do you determine the value of one player over the rest of the team. This is indeed a slippery slope and I do not have an answer nor do I think anyone else does. I foresee this being another thing to tie up our courts for years to come.
NCAA hasn’t been about student athletes in forever. If they were the money would be distributed to all the schools, athletes would be required to attend a program and have passing grades (besides an athletic degree), and bowls would be based on GPA and games (here’s your rankings, 1-130: https://collegefootballnews.com/2019/05/ncaa-apr-academic-progress-rate-football-bowl-eligibility-rankings-no-1-130).
The sports tail has actually been wagging the university dog for decades, but now it’s the worst it’s EVER been. If everything that could be known about the football and basketball factories actually was known (and big if, with so many BILLIONS of dollars at stake that give reasons to hide things) and IF the NCAA followed its own rules (a much bigger if, because, you know, that cesspool of corruption thing), would even one major football college qualify for a bowl game, or one major basketball college qualify for the tournament? In a word, NO. (And, besides, I think one reason the USA is falling behind other industrialized nations in math, science, engineering, logic, and far too many others to mention is BECAUSE so many universities are sports teams with a college attached to them somewhere or other. Instead of the other way around, you see.)
jmworacle over 4 years ago
I agree the athlete should be compensated if the school is selling his or her jersey. They could also set up autograph sessions with very strict oversite and if rules are broken severe penalties would be enforced. However, the athlete receives tuition, room, board, and books. Plus athletes aren’t faced with hugh student loans upon graduation or exhausting their eligibility.
Carl Premium Member over 4 years ago
Why not go pure pro, take the sports, the money and the corruption out of the college? Take your farm team system elsewhere and make it pay for itself.
tkcoker over 4 years ago
This is a very slippery slope and people will find ways around any rules set up. The colleges with the big money backers will have a tremendous recruiting advantage. The value of an athletic scholarship or even being a walk-on on the team is at least double what the normal costs are. When you consider the free tutoring, special meals and other incidentals available to athletes it is a tremendous value that is normally overlooked. When talking about the players who deserve compensation for using their name and likeness to sell jerseys etc. it is very seldom more than one or two players on the team. However this will provide that compensation for all the players on the team because how do you determine the value of one player over the rest of the team. This is indeed a slippery slope and I do not have an answer nor do I think anyone else does. I foresee this being another thing to tie up our courts for years to come.
Polsixe over 4 years ago
Advertise the Team, not the players. ie, “come see the Crimson Tide”, not “come see Tua Tagovailoa”
Pohka over 4 years ago
NCAA hasn’t been about student athletes in forever. If they were the money would be distributed to all the schools, athletes would be required to attend a program and have passing grades (besides an athletic degree), and bowls would be based on GPA and games (here’s your rankings, 1-130: https://collegefootballnews.com/2019/05/ncaa-apr-academic-progress-rate-football-bowl-eligibility-rankings-no-1-130).
Bruce388 over 4 years ago
Right now everyone’s making money except for the athletes getting their brains beaten in.
buckman-j over 4 years ago
This isn’t “Pay for Play”, it’s “Pay to be used for advertising”
Godfreydaniel over 4 years ago
The sports tail has actually been wagging the university dog for decades, but now it’s the worst it’s EVER been. If everything that could be known about the football and basketball factories actually was known (and big if, with so many BILLIONS of dollars at stake that give reasons to hide things) and IF the NCAA followed its own rules (a much bigger if, because, you know, that cesspool of corruption thing), would even one major football college qualify for a bowl game, or one major basketball college qualify for the tournament? In a word, NO. (And, besides, I think one reason the USA is falling behind other industrialized nations in math, science, engineering, logic, and far too many others to mention is BECAUSE so many universities are sports teams with a college attached to them somewhere or other. Instead of the other way around, you see.)
braindead Premium Member over 4 years ago
Remember, the most important thing is that we get see Who’s Number One! settled on the field! Brought to you be DIS/ABC/ESPN/SEC!
And the NCAA.