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Protect College Sports Act [formerly “SCORE Act” thread]

bathtubgin said:
Meh, Cartman’s joke falls flat for me. The vast majority of students playing sports at the collegiate level are student athletes who are more than fairly compensated by scholarships, room and board, etc.

The problem is football, and to a lesser extent men’s basketball, bring in so much money it created an issue that college sports were never intended, or designed, to deal with.
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Yeah, I think the issue started with 7-8 figure coach salaries, 9-figure facilities, etc., all of which were justified and then necessitated by the huge TV payouts. Unfortunately, we as fans are all degenerate ****ers willing to pour huge gobs of money into this machine to get our fix.
 
bathtubgin said:
Meh, Cartman’s joke falls flat for me. The vast majority of students playing sports at the collegiate level are student athletes who are more than fairly compensated by scholarships, room and board, etc.

The problem is football, and to a lesser extent men’s basketball, bring in so much money it created an issue that college sports were never intended, or designed, to deal with.
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Holy ignorance Batman.

This is true for MAYBE 3-5% (and even that may be way too high) of all scholarship athletes.
 
JamesQuall said:
Holy ignorance Batman.

This is true for MAYBE 3-5% (and even that may be way too high) of all scholarship athletes.
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lmao. You’re just wrong

The only athletes who you can argue are not fairly compensated by room and board play football and men’s basketball. Every single other sport just loses money. Even then, especially on a roster as large as football, most guys are fairly compensated by what now amounts to a couple hundred thousand worth of scholarship/room/etc. Are you actually attempting to claim that fours years of free education at UM isn’t fair compensation for say a long snapper?
 
bathtubgin said:
lmao. You’re just wrong

The only athletes who you can argue are not fairly compensated by room and board play football and men’s basketball. Every single other sport just loses money. Even then, especially on a roster as large as football, most guys are fairly compensated by what now amounts to a couple hundred thousand worth of scholarship/room/etc. Are you actually attempting to claim that fours years of free education at UM isn’t fair compensation for say a long snapper?
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Do you think a long snapper at UM is the vast majority of scholarships?

If you’re saying vast majority of collegiate football and basketball players at the p4 level, then yes I agree.

If you’re saying the vast majority of the ~200k collegiate athletes in the US? You’re smoking bath salts.
 
PennsylvaniaCane said:
General Mike Ryan Ruiz is fighting the fight.

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Love Mike but the hate for Phillips is uncalled for. FSU & Clemson suing ****ed so many things up (even tho there was a positive unintended consequence for us).

The decisions that harm the acc’s members the most all happened under his predecessor. Which is why it’s absolutely absurd that UNC is trying to break out the ACC, given that said predecessor was a UNC alum.

He and his nepo baby son’s corrupt actions really limited our ability to get TV money, put us behind the sec and b1g, and crucially devalued our elite basketball conference during the rise of college football as a tv product. College football’s product is so powerful it has led people to miss out on the highway robbery that ESPN & Skipper (another guy I have a lot of respect for and it wasn’t his duty to overpay lol) pulled off by getting Swofford to pool together the rights of basketball and football together to be sold to the network.

Then, Calipari went from Memphis to Kentucky which gave the SEC a comparable powerhouse to Duke. Just like with Saban, it gave the SEC a rocket for the rest of them to shine off of just by association.
 
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