Pay them!!

[I'm james Jackson brother]

So the students who have to pay/borrow their tuition must be straight up stealing kidneys out of the morgue.

Those students have rich or middle class parents who can buy them food....... vs football players who almost always come from extreme poverty. its not the same there are very few if any poor regular students at um and those students can get full time jobs lol.

you can probably count on one hand the number of them that have household income below 30k as regular students at um.

 

[JD08]

Yeah I work. I also see the money I work for. My job doesn't pay my basic necessities and pocket the rest of the money I worked for. But that's something u would be okay with, correct?

If I was straight out of high school and getting free tuition, room and board, absolutely. I had to work a regular job and pay for those things and I even had to borrow money to make it happen.

 

[RedPill Stepdad]

If I was straight out of high school and getting free tuition, room and board, absolutely. I had to work a regular job and pay for those things and I even had to borrow money to make it happen.

your a student athlete that generates over a million dollars by yourself and see none of it. u seriously can say u would be absolutely fine with that?

 

[Go Canes!!]

If I was straight out of high school and getting free tuition, room and board, absolutely. I had to work a regular job and pay for those things and I even had to borrow money to make it happen.

You continue to miss the greater point. No one is paying $3 billion a year to watch you go to school and work your regular job.

Using yourself in any part of this conversation is meaningless.

 

[gogeta4]

It absolutely baffles me that so many people care so deeply about suppressing these kids' wages.

Why can't they just be paid like everyone else in this country: freely negotiated market wages based on supply and demand?

The only two explanations I can come up with are that (1) some people actually think college football is about the education, and/or (2) that people don't actually care about the kids, they just don't want to see their fall Saturday afternoon entertainment messed around with.

It absolutely baffles me that so many people care so deeply about suppressing these kids' wages.

Why can't they just be paid like everyone else in this country: freely negotiated market wages based on supply and demand?

The only two explanations I can come up with are that (1) some people actually think college football is about the education, and/or (2) that people don't actually care about the kids, they just don't want to see their fall Saturday afternoon entertainment messed around with.

or 3. most of these dudes are just jealous of the actual players...which it basically is.

 

[JD08]

your a student athlete that generates over a million dollars by yourself and see none of it. u seriously can say u would be absolutely fine with that?

You're wrong about seeing none of it as has been stated previously. Which student athlete do you think generates a million dollars by himself? What player has graduated and we saw attendance drop?

 

[Dhatguy]

Talk about missing the point!

 

[Dwinstitles]

Wrong. Big markets will win. The U is in one of the biggest markets in America.

Whos stopping people getting paid under the table?

 

[Fort_Lauderdale954]

Does anyone know the monetary value of a scholarship? Giving these kids free housing, food, tuition, travel to games, apparel, etc— it’s worth a lot.

If you don’t like the current arrangement, decline the free ride. No one is forcing you to play college football. It is a voluntary system. They can take their free ride and use it to get into a college most of these kids would never have a chance at attending, all while auditioning for a chance to make millions in the NFL, or they can stay living in a single room with six siblings on the mattress on the floor.

Their choice.

Schools dont have to pay them a dime but let them make money off THEIR name/likeness etc and if some booster wants to give them money let them give them money. Never heard a single logical argument as to why theyre not allowed to profit off THEIR name/likeness

 

[LoungeLord]

So it took UM like 20 years to find the money to build the IPF, yet as someone posted above, each man on the roster generates $1mil/ per player every year for the school. I love simplified math.

 

[Fort_Lauderdale954]

or 3. most of these dudes are just jealous of the actual players...which it basically is.

half the country ( we know which half) is just anti-worker and pro establishment

 

[LoungeLord]

How many schools have cut football programs vs the schools who make millions off of their football program?

You're cherry picking.

Not football, but other sports. If they are all so flush with gobs of money, they wouldn't need too. Shows the crack in the argument. Poor people's view of the rich and their money is always the same, skewed.

And for every Texas A&M, there are three Bowling Greens. You may end up with a pretty small league of top tier schools. Is that really good for the game?

 

[LoungeLord]

half the country ( we know which half) is just anti-worker and pro establishment

Ok Bernie. Maybe we should socialize football?

 

[Fort_Lauderdale954]

Ok Bernie. Maybe we should socialize football?

Im pro free market ..... i dont cherry pick when im pro free market. If someone wants to pay these kids for autographs/ appearances etc then let them. If schools want to bid for a player then let them. You seem to favor socialism/communism when it comes to collegiate athletics.

 

[Fort_Lauderdale954]

Not football, but other sports. If they are all so flush with gobs of money, they wouldn't need too. Shows the crack in the argument. Poor people's view of the rich and their money is always the same, skewed.

And for every Texas A&M, there are three Bowling Greens. You may end up with a pretty small league of top tier schools. Is that really good for the game?

so basically every school should be equal....socialist

 

[DTP]

I'm on board with allowing kids to make money off their licensing rights. As for universities just paying athletes, some of you need to look into the financials of athletic departments outside of the power 5. If you consider middling p5 teams, g5 teams, FCS, D2 and D3, pretty much 95% of the universities are losing money on athletics. Yes, Alabama is making a killing but the lack of parity is already hurting college football. Allowing the big money programs to literally buy every good player would make the sport a joke.

 

[Canes1968]

Those numbers are from FORBES, get real. They are far more accurate than any numbers u have presented.

Your argument fell apart a long time ago. U are only stating your opinion. I brought actual data to the table. Schools are making millions off of these kids. That's a fact, clearly.

L

False. USA Today publishes numbers annually. Those Forbes numbers aren’t accurate.

 

[HamburgerSV]

I'm on board with allowing kids to make money off their licensing rights. As for universities just paying athletes, some of you need to look into the financials of athletic departments outside of the power 5. If you consider middling p5 teams, g5 teams, FCS, D2 and D3, pretty much 95% of the universities are losing money on athletics. Yes, Alabama is making a killing but the lack of parity is already hurting college football. Allowing the big money programs to literally buy every good player would make the sport a joke.

There already is a lack of parity my dude and it’s already money related. Bama spends the entire state budget on coaches/assistant salaries

 

[TC@ne]

Salaries would be near impossible to make fair and sort out.

But the players should 100% be earning off their image, likeness, and brand on top of their scholarship.

It’s going to happen, and it should happen.

 

[1mg of Epi]

If the kids feel the arrangement is unfair they are not forced to sign a scholarship.

But, that aside, what about the billions of dollars earned by NFL players as a result of the chance to showcase your ability to scouts for free for 3-4 years in NCAA football? Or the chance to earn a degree for free?

That argument would hold more weight if the NFL didn’t jump in bed w the ncaa and decide they wouldn’t take a player less than 3 years outta high school.

There’s a term for that kind of relationship in the business world, and i don’t think it’s legal.

That being said, this isn’t about colleges paying players, it’s about the kids making their own money.