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The Fair Pay to Play Act is a disaster

You guys are looking at this wrong. Buying recruits would still be illegal. This is about situations like AJ Green who sold his bowl game memorabilia and got suspended 4 games. Or Manziel's autograph case. It's college athletes not HS.
 
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moshated305 said:
You guys are looking at this wrong. Buying recruits would still be illegal. This is about situations like AJ Green who sold his bowl game memorabilia and got suspended 4 games. Or Manziel's autograph case. It's college athletes not HS.
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It may still be illegal, but this makes it so easy to buy a kid without "buying a recruit." You're a booster of a company and it just so happens that your company is looking at this particular kid to be their spokesman, so they fly him in on a private jet, wine and dine him, show him your facilities, hand him off to the school's coaching staff for a few hours, promise to pay him good money for the endorsement "if it works out" wink...

This is truly insane.
 
moshated305 said:
You guys are looking at this wrong. Buying recruits would still be illegal. This is about situations like AJ Green who sold his bowl game memorabilia and got suspended 4 games. Or Manziel's autograph case. It's college athletes not HS.
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The high school players will know which schools are getting players the best apparel deals. When you see a true freshman buddy getting $100,000 in jersey sales before playing a single game, you will know what's up.
 
filmcane said:
It may still be illegal, but this makes it so easy to buy a kid without "buying a recruit." You're a booster of a company and it just so happens that your company is looking at this particular kid to be their spokesman, so they fly him in on a private jet, wine and dine him, show him your facilities, hand him off to the school's coaching staff for a few hours, promise to pay him good money for the endorsement "if it works out" wink...

This is truly insane.
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And they aren't already buying kids now? Lol I don't think boosters will be stupid enough to go that public with things like you say. Boosters will still do the same as they have always done and work in the shadows.
 
ThomasM said:
The high school players will know which schools are getting players the best apparel deals. When you see a true freshman buddy getting $100,000 in jersey sales before playing a single game, you will know what's up.
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Jerseys won't be selling like that until kids prove it on the field. You guys are crazy if you think Mike is going to selling jerseys of true freshman who haven't done **** on even the college level.

Even if it does happen the way you say, what's the difference between what's going on now with every 5 star kid going to Bama, Clemson and UGA?
 
People acting like Alabama and the $EC schools aren't already buying off every recruit they can get. They already have players collecting 6 figure deals. All this does is allow players who aren't getting paid directly by their school's booster club to make some money off their likeness. If anything this helps metro schools like Miami, USC/UCLA and Washington because a player has a lot more opportunity to sell his likeness in a big market than some po-dunk hillbilly town.
 
moshated305 said:
Jerseys won't be selling like that until kids prove it on the field. You guys are crazy if you think Mike is going to selling jerseys of true freshman who haven't done **** on even the college level.

Even if it does happen the way you say, what's the difference between what's going on now with every 5 star kid going to Bama, Clemson and UGA?
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Oh I am all for change. It is desperately needed to save the sport. All I am saying is the cheaters will find a way to take advantage of it. It's what they do.
 
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If my brief two minute reading is correct, this may actually be the most fair way to allow players to get paid while not running afoul of title IX. It's not the schools paying, and players will decide between being Bama's depth and getting to be a star at a different power 5 school and maybe getting more money. Big markets like Miami and p5 schools as a whole benefit. Other schools get hurt most likely.
 
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filmcane said:
There will be so many new ways to buy H.S. athletes now, it's not even funny. They are ruining the game. If the NCAA wants to give the players a hourly wage, that is the same across the board for every school, then that is fine, but giving them the ability to sell their likeness and such will result in there being even fewer Haves and many more have nots as far as teams are concerned.

Heck, Harvard has the largest endowment, they oughta petition to become D1, buy all the best athletes through "legal means" and wipe the floor with BAMA, CLEMSON, the *'s, etc.
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Unfortunately, Harvard has academic standards. So all of the elite athletes would not be going there.
 
miamicanephins said:
Depends on what they major in. Most people in college are wasting time and money. Most would be better off learning a trade.
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This has become a popular notion in recent years but it's simply not true. Trust me, I went to trade school, (after dropping out of university) and own a repair shop. If everyone stopped going to college and started going to trade schools, there'd just be a glut of trade school graduates who couldn't find jobs in their field. Just like college isn't for everyone, learning a trade isn't for everyone either. Not everyone can do the job just because they took a 9 month course at their local community college. I'd say close to half the people that graduated trade school with me I would not hire at my business.

As for people wasting their time and money in college, maybe the small portion that's majoring in a field that has no job prospects are but most people enrolled in a university aren't majoring in basket weaving or humanities. Every friend of mine that graduated with at least a bachelor's degree is making very good money in their respective field. The amount they make way more than compensates what they had to spend on an education. It's a 100% myth that every kid in college is graduating with a degree in "gender studies" or some other ridiculous field that most colleges don't even offer.
 
mdpcane said:
college athletes are ALREADY being compensated .... do people think a college scholarship has no value ?

what the **** is wrong with people ?
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I'd like to see the student part put back in front of the athlete, but that's just me.
 
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