Coming soon: NCAA v. California

Well, based on your “don’t you realize” tut-tut, it’s a really good comparison.

Write with more nuance and I’ll compare with the same.

Mahomes doesn’t make his market value for the reasons you listed. But that doesn’t make your original statement right. It makes it cheap moral statement.

 

Based on what Baron wrote originally? Sure.

Mahomes is not allowed to make his market value. His union prevents that in an effort to protect those draft picks who make far more than their market value, like Mitchell Trubisky or Josh Allen. Whatever you want to call that, it ain’t what Baron wrote.

 

And that is collectively bargained. What have college “student athletes” collectively bargained?

 

Very little. They should start a union.

 

Or just be able to have a job outside of school. You know, like other scholarshipped students.

 

Are they not allowed those anymore? They used to be able to have summer jobs

 

Listen to the Dan Hawkins "go play intramurals, brotha!" tape.

They get two weeks off at the beginning of the summer. The week of July 4th, and a week before camp starts. Then their unpaid job starts.
Dan Hawkins "Go play intramurals brotha"

 

Yeah it’s out of control. If anything I’d bar the doors to the weight room for two months.

I still think they can jobs though. I think.

 

If you're on an academic scholarship, you will get far less value. But you can work. Because no booster will ever pay you $500 a week to water the Astroturf field, or do some other fake job, which is why the NCAA forbade work by athletes in the first place. There are reasons the rules exist.

 

Why do you care if a booster wants to waste their money? Good for the kid.

 

I think they can have jobs.

 

This guy got between $250k and $750k for sham job running the Fiesta Bowl.
Rise and fall of former executive director John Junker

The NCAA encourages this.