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Spencer Hall's "Broke"

Discussion in 'Journalism topics only' started by Alma, Sep 9, 2015.

  1. Baron Scicluna

    Baron Scicluna Well-Known Member

    If the system was working and most athletes don't have market value, then why do the schools and the NCAA work so hard, and have so many rules, to prevent athletes from getting their market value?
     
  2. Baron Scicluna

    Baron Scicluna Well-Known Member

    How so?
     
  3. PCLoadLetter

    PCLoadLetter Well-Known Member

    Most do not have market value above what they are getting. You always want to pretend they are getting nothing, and it's not true. They are getting an extremely valuable education.

    How many football players on the Northwestern team have a value to the program greater than the value of that scholarship? Probably fewer than 5. Just how much do you want to screw up a system that's providing 85 students with a free Northwestern education and degree to atone for the terrible exploitation of the running back who could probably score a Pepsi from a car dealer?
     
  4. Baron Scicluna

    Baron Scicluna Well-Known Member

    If they don't have a market value above what they're getting, then what does the NCAA have to fear?
     
  5. PCLoadLetter

    PCLoadLetter Well-Known Member

    A system that creates wild inequalities, eventually leading to a large number of programs dropping out of FBS and eliminating hundreds of scholarships to placate the people who are upset that poor Johnny Football can't appear in beer ads.
     
  6. Baron Scicluna

    Baron Scicluna Well-Known Member

    If Johnny Football appears in beer ads, how does that affect other college teams' bottom lines?
     
  7. PCLoadLetter

    PCLoadLetter Well-Known Member

    Because compensation for players -- beyond a modest stipend -- creates an enormous gulf between the haves and have-nots. And as soon as you allow the players to have that sort of compensation -- even from outside sources -- the competitive balance is shot. Some schools could put the whole roster on the payrolls of the boosters. Others cannot.

    So, Johnny Football doing a beer ad by itself isn't a major issue. When the entire Oregon roster is on Nike's payroll you will have a disaster for college football.
     
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  8. Baron Scicluna

    Baron Scicluna Well-Known Member

    An enormous gulf. You mean, like it is now?
     
  9. PCLoadLetter

    PCLoadLetter Well-Known Member

    Nope.
     
  10. Baron Scicluna

    Baron Scicluna Well-Known Member

    Those Sun Belt teams do really well against the SEC, don't they?
     
  11. JackReacher

    JackReacher Well-Known Member

    It's Baron's world. We're all just paying rent and trying not to kill ourselves.
     
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  12. Baron Scicluna

    Baron Scicluna Well-Known Member

    The people arguing against paying college athletes were the same ones arguing against free agency in baseball and professionalism in the Olympics. "It'll doom the sport!" "Nobody will want to watch anymore!" "The sport will no longer be pure!"

    Know what? Those critics were wrong.
     
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