|
|
 BHW Resident Surgeon
Posts: 25352
  
Location: Bastrop, Texas | That's going to take some getting used to. I'm having a hard time wrapping my arms around this. How is this supposed to work? |
|
| |
|
 Googly Goo
Posts: 7053
| I don't think anybody know yet. Only thing I'm sure of is that there is reform coming to the NCAA. |
|
| |
|
 Miss Laundry Misshap
Posts: 5271
| In reality, they are already "getting paid." Scholarships are money paid to them.
Unionization just seems odd. |
|
| |
|
 Uh....never mind
Posts: 2696
Location: Midwest Farmer's Daughter: Central Illinois | I think they're all a bunch of spoiled, arrogant brats who need a serious reality check.
|
|
| |
|
  That's White "Man" to You
Posts: 5515
| Nateracer - 2014-04-08 12:00 PM In reality, they are already "getting paid." Scholarships are money paid to them.
Unionization just seems odd.
NCAA has pimped out atheletes for too long. Scholarships are nothing compared to what they are producing. |
|
| |
|
 Balance Beam and more...
Posts: 11511
Location: 31 lengths farms | So far isnt' it just the private colleges? I hate to see it happen but at the same time when the colleges make the kind of money they do off their sports programs and say a player takes a hit while playing for them that ends their career before it starts, ie the player here a few years ago for Rutgers. |
|
| |
|
 Mature beyond Years
Posts: 10780
Location: North of the 49th Parallel | I sure as hope there is reform coming. Long time coming. |
|
| |
|
BHW Resident Surgeon
Posts: 25352
Location: Bastrop, Texas | I can see it all now. You are getting ready to go to watch your favorite local college team play a football game on a warm, Indian summer Saturday afternoon, with fall colors on full display. You go to pull into the parking lot and there's a sign:
Game cancelled due to player's strike |
|
| |
|
 Always Off Topic
Posts: 6382
Location: ND | Nateracer - 2014-04-08 12:00 PM In reality, they are already "getting paid." Scholarships are money paid to them.
Unionization just seems odd.
scholarships are nothing........ |
|
| |
|
 Shelter Dog Lover
Posts: 10277
| Whiteboy - 2014-04-08 12:10 PM Nateracer - 2014-04-08 12:00 PM In reality, they are already "getting paid." Scholarships are money paid to them.
Unionization just seems odd. NCAA has pimped out atheletes for too long. Scholarships are nothing compared to what they are producing.
I agree. I hate to see them unionize because I think it will hurt the sport but colleges have been making hundreds of millions a year off of their college atheletes. |
|
| |
|
 Elite Veteran
Posts: 1182
Location: Do I hear Banjos? | I love watching college football. Much more so than NFL. (Although I will watch that too). To me it has always seemed as though the college players play harder. Try harder. Maybe that's a false perception. But I attributed that in part to the fact that the NFL players get paid the same win or lose. The college boys are playing hard to stay on the team and to hopefully go on to the Pro's.
So...if they are now paid...will that change the game? |
|
| |
|
Always Off Topic
Posts: 6382
Location: ND | collegiate sports should be privatized at every level and have to pay for themselves......collegiate sports have had a huge hand in completely ruining higher education |
|
| |
|
Googly Goo
Posts: 7053
| dhdqhllc - 2014-04-08 12:33 PM collegiate sports should be privatized at every level and have to pay for themselves......collegiate sports have had a huge hand in completely ruining higher education
How so? |
|
| |
|
Elite Veteran
Posts: 729
Location: south central usa | one of the counter issues raised either by the NCAA or their advocates...is that if you start paying the players...will it be taxable and if so, what about the scholarships - should they then be taxed as well.
the other issue is how can you allocate the same amount of dollars to every player when their contribution amount to funds received by the schools will vary greatly...as in how much does the starting quarterback/running back on the #1 football team in the country generate in ticket/jersey sales vs the second stringer on the same school's women's volleyball team that is not very competitive.
its just going to be a big mess. |
|
| |
|
BHW Resident Surgeon
Posts: 25352
Location: Bastrop, Texas | dhdqhllc - 2014-04-08 12:33 PM collegiate sports should be privatized at every level and have to pay for themselves......collegiate sports have had a huge hand in completely ruining higher education
Good point. I've never looked at it that way. My intial reaction was that it wouldn't work at some of the smaller schools like Mayville State U. Then I got to thinking that they have such a meager budget anyway. They have to do all sorts of things just to raise enough money to take a 2 week road trip down south to play ball in February. They have been a very excellent small college baseball program for decades.
What about athletic scholarships? What would replace them? How would these smaller schools compete? Take it a step further.....what says they have to even wear the college uniform/colors? Instead of Mayville State Comets, why can't they be the "Mayville Goonies"? |
|
| |
|
 Firecracker Dog Lover
Posts: 3175
| TXBO - 2014-04-08 10:41 AM dhdqhllc - 2014-04-08 12:33 PM collegiate sports should be privatized at every level and have to pay for themselves......collegiate sports have had a huge hand in completely ruining higher education How so?
Because it's all about revenue. You have a powerhouse college football program - the students come - simple as that. Our university which should be in the WAC is in Division 1A - simply for the revenue from TV. Idaho has no business playing Nebraska, period. Our AD thinks he should get more money so he doesn't have to schedule teams like Nebraska. I could almost guarantee you the athletic budget is a mess and it's being subsidized somehow. There are upgrades and upates to the athletic facilities (that no one else gets to use) but faculty and staff haven't had raises in 6 years, campus building maintenance is behind, and tuition is constantly on the rise - it's hard to justify paying for college football programs in light of all that. But you have a big powerhouse program that generates revenue - it's certainly much more attainable. |
|
| |
|
 You just got to get mean and mean it.
Location: Arkansas | dhdqhllc - 2014-04-08 12:33 PM collegiate sports should be privatized at every level and have to pay for themselves......collegiate sports have had a huge hand in completely ruining higher education
Used to be that 2 D's and an F would keep you on the football team and keep your scholarship. 
|
|
| |
|
Always Off Topic
Posts: 6382
Location: ND | TXBO - 2014-04-08 12:41 PM dhdqhllc - 2014-04-08 12:33 PM collegiate sports should be privatized at every level and have to pay for themselves......collegiate sports have had a huge hand in completely ruining higher education How so?
adding.....this has nothing to do with the actual athletes....it has to do with administration, boosters, politicians, presidents, staff, business' that are all raking in huge amounts of money from the students and taxes to support their gluttony.....above and beyond what is generated by the athletic merchandising itself......
how many worthless bowl games can you actually have???
Edited by dhdqhllc 2014-04-08 1:04 PM
|
|
| |
|
Expert
Posts: 2022
Location: No place like home--KS | I think something needs to change because players can't work and play at the same time. Not all scholarships pay for everything! Having a son that will be playing college football next year, this concerns me and my pocketbook. Big colleges make a lot of money off their athletes, why not share the wealth?! Afterall, whose making the money for them? jmo |
|
| |
|
Always Off Topic
Posts: 6382
Location: ND | Frosty - 2014-04-08 1:07 PM I think something needs to change because players can't work and play at the same time. Not all scholarships pay for everything! Having a son that will be playing college football next year, this concerns me and my pocketbook. Big colleges make a lot of money off their athletes, why not share the wealth?! Afterall, whose making the money for them? jmo
part of that is just BS......lots of college athletes work...... |
|
| |
Folks on-line