One for the little guys in Athletes v. NCAA

And heaven forbid if someone gives you one penny -- and I mean ONE penny -- because if the NCAA finds out the athlete took one cent from someone, they'll come after the school's ass.

About time the NCAA got some of its own medicine back. Just saying, that's all.

 

It's not the same as actually sitting in class and learning from the professor. And not only that, but there have been plenty of times where coaches have pushed their players into certain majors that tend to be less demanding on time than others (i.e, Robert Smith and Ohio State).

For the vast majority of college sports, the NCAA's ideal model is followed. But for football and men's basketball, and to a lesser extent women's hoops and baseball, it's become big business. People can argue that the revenue sports fund the lesser sports. Problem is, schools were funding these sports for decades before big-time money got involved.

 

Actually no they weren't.

Go back just 35 years and look at how few women's programs there were.

No soccer
No hockey
No lacrosse
No softball
Very little field hockey
Very little basketball
Very little volleyball

With limited exceptions in women's hoops none of those sports pay for themselves and they never will.

 

OK, but so what? Stealing and selling the publicity rights (The right of publicity is an individual's right to control and profit from the commercial use of his/her name, likeness and persona) of athletes doesn't seem like an equitable way to fund more sports programs.

 

My point is schools were NOT funding these sports for decades. It's foolish to say that they were.

 

Instead of expanding the "big time $$$" sports to chase more $$ so that we can "allegedly" fund more sports; how about consumers hold onto that money and the schools fund the sports with the taxes/fees collected? More direct approach.

See we don't need to pay Rich Rodriguez $5M/year to pay for the wrestling program. We can do it better and cheaper.

 

True on the women's sports. However, there are still plenty of schools in D-2 and D-3 that manage to fund men's and women's sports without needing to generate a ton of revenue through the football and men's basketball programs by exploiting their athletes' likenesses.