That’s the inevitability though. All of them can’t get addition money on top of what they’re already getting,

What inevitability, that some players would be paid while others wouldn’t? Mark Emmert already proposed a $2,000 stipend for every athlete, football or otherwise, so I would hardly call that an inevitability. Then there’s this:

A report released this week by the National College Players Association, an advocacy group for college athletes, found that the average full scholarship at a Football Bowl Series university lacks $3,222 in educational expenses, including everything from parking fees to utilities charges. Just paying players this much, the report says, could “reduce their vulnerability to breaking NCAA rules.”

In addition to this report, which called for government intervention to “redefine” amateurism, South Carolina football coach Steve Spurrier repeated Tuesday his view that players ought to be paid $3,000 to $4,000 per season.

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424053111904060604576572752351110850.html

The fact that athletes can’t get paid is specifically what breeds corruption. Coaches are openly advocating for them to get paid in addition to scholarships (although we’ll see how the tune changes if some of that dough comes as the expense of coaching salaries).

The Burger King twitter handle got hacked, then claimed they got sold to McDonalds and if “we see you at Wendys, we fightin”

dying

/team frostee

Also, I never specified which players should and shouldn’t get paid, so you’re putting words in my mouth.

That’s the inevitability though. All of them can’t get addition money on top of what they’re already getting, and if certain people are getting paid and others aren’t, we all know who will be getting the cash.

And you don’t think it’ll get worse? What happens when the backup (who isn’t paid) has a direct financial stake in the starter going down?

Also, I never specified which players should and shouldn’t get paid, so you’re putting words in my mouth.

Also, no school is leaving the NCAA…ever. Without the NCAA, the schools have to pay taxes on all of that merchandise, and that will never happen. The tax exempt status is hammer for which the NCAA can always use.

“Non-profits” can easily be set-up…and be manipulated to hide profits.

WHat would happen is the complete extinction of women’s sports and many other men’s sports.

I doubt it. Among the big six conferences, athletic departments on average turned a $5.8 million profit (as of 2011), which is an increase of 76% since 2003. The BCS playoff television deal is worth almost 3 times as much as the current BCS contract. In addition, many men’s sports went extinct as a direct result of women’s sports coming into existence.

And you don’t think it’ll get worse? What happens when the backup (who isn’t paid) has a direct financial stake in the starter going down?

Ummmm, this already happens (see: scholarship athletes vs. walk-ons).

If paying players results in school Presidents/ADs/directors having to shave a few percentage points from their salaries, so be it.

WHat would happen is the complete extinction of women’s sports and many other men’s sports.

Ok. Regarding insane corruption: It already exists all over NCAA athletics precisely because they cannot be paid.

And you don’t think it’ll get worse? What happens when the backup (who isn’t paid) has a direct financial stake in the starter going down?

Also, no school is leaving the NCAA…ever. Without the NCAA, the schools have to pay taxes on all of that merchandise, and that will never happen. The tax exempt status is hammer for which the NCAA can always use.

/stop trying to make fb safer
//education and freewill should be new policy

It’s untenable. It cannot last without crippling universities or opening up insane corruption.

Ok. Regarding insane corruption: It already exists all over NCAA athletics precisely because they cannot be paid. Regarding crippling universities, I am only speaking to paying football players, because they are the breadwinners for athletic departments, and of course this would have to be accompanied by a split with the NCAA, which I would be all for. The NCAA is perhaps the most toothless, legally-unfounded institution in America anyway, so “tough shit” applies here. College football is a multi-billion dollar industry. If paying players results in school Presidents/ADs/directors having to shave a few percentage points from their salaries, so be it. The NCAA already realizes that the writing is on the wall as the tide of popular sentiment turns against them. I give it 5 years, 7 years tops, and you’ll see four 16-team super conferences playing under a separate governing body, and a 12- or 16-team playoff. University big wigs will piss and moan the whole way, but eventually football players are going to get paid.

however, there needs to be ejections for the contact that linemen endure every play. once again, the repeated blows to the head that do not cause concussions are the main problem, not the huge hits

Deliberate chop block (high-lows) should be cause for ejections before these hits, but of course those plays don’t make SportsCenter.

This is about an ineffective as instituting a death penalty for sneezing would be at discouraging sneezing.

i don’t appreciate you guys encouraging got em looking in the tebow post

/tldr

however, there needs to be ejections for the contact that linemen endure every play. once again, the repeated blows to the head that do not cause concussions are the main problem, not the huge hits

/said no one

Just to clarify, we’re talking about paying college players, not NFL games on both Saturday and Sunday, correct?

Yes.

It’s untenable. It cannot last without crippling universities or opening up insane corruption.

Just to clarify, we’re talking about paying college players, not NFL games on both Saturday and Sunday, correct?

Is that a bad thing?

It’s untenable. It cannot last without crippling universities or opening up insane corruption.

Working my way through the report right now.

Cool. I haven’t looked at any of it but did see a tweet that some lady mentioned in the report is the same lady that called out Chizik about an NCAA investigation last year.

So we’re going to pay them and fine them now.

I should have only included the second sentence.

It’s almost like people want to watch the NFL two days per weekend now.

Is that a bad thing?