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03-26-2014, 02:08 PM | #46 | |
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I don't think the idea that a scholarship is enough is crap. Seems to me there's stories every day about kids being saddled with 20 years of crippling student loan debt. If athletes can get money, good for them. But the idea that they're receiving a pittance is laughable. |
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Same as students who work part time for a school in the library or cafeteria, they also file taxes.
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At the very least, I'm getting sick of people who bitch about pros getting paid too much as a reason why college athletics are a better product.
The NCAA has demonstrated that it can be every bit as corrupt and greedy as the NFL, NBA, or MLB. Time and time again. Let's at least remove the veil and show people that the two products MIGHT have been different in the 1970s or 1980s, but not anymore. |
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"So does this include the gymnastics and karate teams?"
If they represent the university as an official team and not just a student-run club, then yes. The universities won't be paying for the ultimate frisbee teams. |
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03-26-2014, 02:13 PM | #50 |
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03-26-2014, 02:14 PM | #52 |
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If I had to guess, presuming they lose in court, I'd say its at least 50/50 that congress might step in and reverse this.
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I also don't see why the NCAA can't institute wage controls to ensure fair competition in recruiting.
If a player is deciding between staying close to home at the University of North Dakota but also has an offer from the University of Alabama, the money shouldn't be the deciding factor. The NCAA can take measures to regulate that. |
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03-26-2014, 02:17 PM | #56 |
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Bad precedent imo. It flips College Football on its end on how to build a team, allows a further ability to pay off and corrupt to sway unions and players towards a contract negotiation, etc. I don't see the benefit of allowing 18 year old kids (Yes, they're kids) the power to mass strike leading to a drop in quality of sport, scabs replacing the players, just overall ugly precedent in so many ways bringing out bad decisions all for the sake of money. It always corrupts absolutely.
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I think the only way this works out positively is if scholarships for Div 1 football is lowered to 50 or 60.. spreads the athletes to other schools when a lot of them might be content with being depth at Alabama or Oregon.
But my guess is schools would opt to kill every men's sport but football and probably take a handful of scholarships from basketball just to fulfill Title IX and have 85 guys on football scholies.
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