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Should college athletes be paid?

Discussion in 'Sports and News' started by Dick Whitman, Mar 27, 2014.

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Should college athletes be paid?

  1. Yes

    32 vote(s)
    51.6%
  2. No

    30 vote(s)
    48.4%
  1. Baron Scicluna

    Baron Scicluna Well-Known Member

    Yes because they're scheduling games across the country in the middle of the week and telling him that he has to take the basket weaving class because the pre-med class interferes with practice time and would take too much time away from his film studying.
     
  2. Songbird

    Songbird Well-Known Member

    Let's not mix college life with poverty. It's college life. You're poor.

    And, oh by the way, you get a free ride, with benefits to make sure you do that studying thing.
     
  3. The Big Ragu

    The Big Ragu Moderator Staff Member

    If they can freely negotiate their worth, they should be paid as much as they can negotiate for themselves.

    The cost of the school's tuition doesn't really have anything to do with that, other than the fact that the value of a scholarship is certainly a negotiating chip that the schools bring to the table.
     
  4. LongTimeListener

    LongTimeListener Well-Known Member

    It's not another issue. It's the same issue. The reason coaches and administrators (especially the lowlifes at the NCAA) make so much is that the labor costs are zero. It's very much intertwined and similar to the grossly exaggerated executive pay in a Fortune 500 company. The difference is there is some sort of free market at work at the company but a ridiculous restraint of the free market in college sports.
     
  5. JC

    JC Well-Known Member

    See, I see it as let them get whatever the hell they want from outside sources and let the Universtity provide what they are now without the restrictions. I have no doubt that it will be completely corrupt but the system is corrupt now and the ones benefiting most aren't the players.
     
  6. Dick Whitman

    Dick Whitman Well-Known Member

    I only bring that up because it's another example of a systemic failing that people blame on individuals.

    If, over a large sample size, bad results are occurring, then the problem is with the system.
     
  7. Michael_ Gee

    Michael_ Gee Well-Known Member

    The point isn't that a college scholarship doesn't have value, it's that the value is earned by hours of labor divorced from the revenue generated by said labor for the schools. I give credit to Beef for acknowledging that denying athletes the rights to their own names and images is simply unconscionable. Perhaps a profit-sharing arrangement would be more equitable than flat out salaries.
     
  8. Baron Scicluna

    Baron Scicluna Well-Known Member

    As far as the original question goes, pay them the difference between the scholarship and actual cost of attendance for all the scholarship athletes. Then allow athletes to profit off their name on top of that. Won't cost the school anything other than the cost of attendance, and with the billions being generated, they can afford that.
     
  9. Songbird

    Songbird Well-Known Member

    How do D-II and D-III and NAIA student-athletes figure into the mix? Jucos?
     
  10. cranberry

    cranberry Well-Known Member

    Exactly what the market will bear. Not a penny more or less.
     
  11. LongTimeListener

    LongTimeListener Well-Known Member

    For you guys who think a scholarship is enough value, run this hypothetical:

    Beginning next year, the NCAA opens the floodgates. Negotiate the best deal you can, with the only condition being that a player is a full-time student.

    How many kids sign at a BCS school for less than the fair market value of a scholarship?

    The correct answer is zero.
     
  12. TyWebb

    TyWebb Well-Known Member

    Aaron Murray from UGA is going to graduate with a MASTER'S in psychology before going to the NFL (I use him as an example because I'm a UGA grad and his first comes to mind). How was he able to do that with this "system" working against him? Surely, as the QB of a major, SEC school, he had more demands placed on him than any other athlete at UGA?

    And he is just one example. I think the system works just fine for athletes who actually want to leave college with both a degree and the chance to play in the NFL.
     
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