That might be true. It might be that football gets uncoupled from the colleges or that it’ll be like baseball where the very best go to a different league.
They are amateurs because they have never been payed to play that sport or any sport. Its not circular, it starts at Amateur status and progresses. The fact you think i was making a circular logic argument shows how detached you are.
Lmao.
And you keep using the indentured servitude line, but that does not fit college sports in its entirety. Indentured servants could be sold, loaned, or inherited, at least during the duration of their contract terms. This is not college football, so that simply does not fit. Kids are free to leave a University at any time and forego the remainder of their eligibility at that University. They cannot be sold, or loaned to another University. They cannot be bought by anyone else with more money. That logic is flawed from the very definition.
What is an amateur sports league? How do you define it? How do you define an amateur sport player?
Amateur leagues are leagues for fun or fitness or whatever. Sometimes they sell tshirts and sodas to cover the cost of running the league, paying umps, paying the landscaper to keep the infield mowed etc.
I'll stick to HS football if this happens.
Literally go fuck your own face.
Do you think the Universities are being paid billions upon billions? Yes, money is changing hands. Why do you think that ESPN, ABC, NBC, CBS and others are bidding to host these game, and why do you think you have to sit though a commercial break each time you watch a game. To pay for the rights to show you that game on live television. Its not free, and its not pay per view either, which might be coming if your idea gets put into use. The SEC will have its own television deal, and will make every game they show PPV and if you cant afford it, who fucking cares because someone will be able to. All because you felt like a kid should be paid to play an amateur sport. They were already being compensated with a shit ton of compensation, but you wanted to pay them to play, making it a pro sport.
This guy is a major moron. My guess is he sits in his cheer jersey looking for ideas to ruin college sports because his team cant find ways to be relevant anymore. This will further cause him issues as that booster pool will dry up if they are not getting a piece of that money coming in.
You’re argument to me is that there are billions of dollars being exchanged? Ummm. That’s my argument. Are you having a stroke?
But you are wrong, they have not kept the principals from negotiating compensation. The very nature of a scholarship is compensation. They are providing a service to the University for their free education that would cost you or I hundreds of thousands of dollars if we got the same perks football players did. That is a compensation package that is negotiated. and here is the kicker, if that person is injured on the job, that University is on the hook for that education no matter if they can play again or not. Same package, same deal, just under a medical compensation package at that point. The very nature of a scholarship is a deal between you and the University that is a form of compensation, and it can be broken by the player at any time they choose without a request for recompense from the University. Furthermore, the University is making a substantial investment in your work environment on a daily, weekly, and monthly basis. They provide you with a laundry list of compensation items that is all part of your scholarship deal. Your very comment on indentured servants is negated by the fact these players cannot be sold, traded, bought by another team. The contract between the student and the University can be terminated, but it must be done so by the Student unless a situation arises that negates the terms of the contract based upon the wording of said students responsibility to that University. Indentured servants they are not.
I don’t think you know what the word negotiated means.
the industry that is billions of dollars does not extend down to the University levels in many cases. This is why you keep failing to see the truth behind this. And that compensation package that is in place is not one size fits all in all cases. Yes, they do have standard packages, but I have heard of special compensation based upon less needs by the student such as off campus housing and the like. Its not always one size fits all.
Save your energy. You know what's going on here with all this "charity" stuff? Texas believes they can use their financial power to buy/spend/manipulate their way back to the top. I've talked to Texas fans who work in our organization and they give one example after another where Texas will now have an advantage over everyone else because they're richer than 6" up a bull's ass. They are elated that Texas will be able to buy coaches, players, anything to get on a level the rest of us can only envy. Coaches making 8-9 figures and players making 6-7 figures are the future!! Common sense and long term consequences are irrelevant. Maybe they're right. But I doubt it because I can picture how the rest of college football will eventually react.
Why would they do that? Scholarships have NOTHING to do with NIL money. Are the schools sharing the TV contracts or stadium revenue with the players like the NFL or NBA does? Last time I checked, no.
well, until we start paying HS players -
