There's a lot to be said where we are able to call NCAA athletes, professionals. They are paid with

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There's a lot to be said where we are able to call NCAA athletes, professionals. They are paid with

Author: jimbasil (52634 Posts - Joined: Nov 15, 2007)

Posted at 8:12 pm on Mar 31, 2021

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an education and a very expensive one at that.

The NCAA has only itself to blame through poor management and greed for cases like these to come along.

Football being a major culprit in this.

The "Power 5 conferences" will do much better than the smaller conferences -

The NCAA has created a fixed price for labor and that isn't fair to the athletes. TV rights and TV productions
with bowl games becoming playoff games and hours and hours of sports broadcasting with big-time advertising dollars
pushing the programming, there's no way athletes shouldn't have financial rewards. But in doing so, they're no longer
amateurs -

Jack, he is a banker
and Jane, she is a clerk

Replies to: "There's a lot to be said where we are able to call NCAA athletes, professionals. They are paid with"

All college sports eyes should be on the SCOTUS [LINK] - BaronVonZemo - 5:39pm 3/31/21 (14) [View All]
- It's roughly a $10-$15 Billion dollar industry. Anyone who tells you it's about amateurs is a liar. - oldirish - 8:27pm 4/1/21
  - So we are coming for the athlete and not the brand? Yet our liking a player is based solely on - BaronVonZemo - 9:00am 4/2/21
    - Let's not pretend the schollie money is = to revenue. See below. [NT] - oldirish - 10:30pm 4/3/21
- There's a lot to be said where we are able to call NCAA athletes, professionals. They are paid with - jimbasil - 8:12pm 3/31/21
  - It doesn't even remotely come close to the revenue they generate for the school. Not even close. [NT] - oldirish - 8:27pm 4/1/21
    - 112mm/98 = That's $1.142 million per player and only roughly 85 get scholarships [LINK] - oldirish - 9:27pm 4/1/21
  - The athletes will determine if they're paid enough, not the unis... - ripperduck - 11:23am 4/1/21
    - I absolutely agree. The narrative being sold about the "scholarship" is bs and hiding the real $$ - oldirish - 9:30pm 4/1/21
  - The NCAA fought against the current TV proliferation. [LINK] - Shadow_of_the_Dome - 8:50pm 3/31/21
    - Ah, you're right - I think of them as one in the same when I shouldn't. - jimbasil - 9:12pm 3/31/21
- Podcast and transcript now posted. [LINK] - Shadow_of_the_Dome - 7:06pm 3/31/21
  - Title IX is untenable if athletes are paid-it was not designed for this contingency. many colleges - BaronVonZemo - 12:44am 4/1/21
    - It is also untenable if biological men can play on women’s teams [NT] - CC72 - 6:03pm 4/1/21
- I remember reading NCAA v. Oklahoma Board of Regents in Law School - Shadow_of_the_Dome - 6:01pm 3/31/21