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

jimbasil 55199 posts Joined: Nov 15, 2007

Posted 8:12 pm on Mar 31, 2021

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 14

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

View Full Conversation