California, Florida sign law to allow college athletes to get paid

[Swamp Donkey]

Law's pissed because he knows we'll pay minimum wage.

I want the NCAA blown up.

And I dont want govt sticking its nose in anything. Theyve fvkked up enough already.

Kalifornia has a 389 billion dollar debt and is racing toward third world status. They dont need to fvkkup anything else.

 

[5-Star Finger]

Kalifornia has a 389 billion dollar debt and is racing toward third world status. They dont need to fvkkup anything else.

I laughed.

 

[78]

I want the NCAA blown up.

And I dont want govt sticking its nose in anything. Theyve fvkked up enough already.

Kalifornia has a 389 billion dollar debt and is racing toward third world status. They dont need to fvkkup anything else.

Where's the socialism? The players are being allowed to be what we knew they were all along, minus the fakery. Mass marketing objects.

 

[RocketCityGator]

If we are going to debate this, lets get a couple of facts straight.

1. Fact: Most collegiate athletic programs aren't self supporting, TV contracts or otherwise. Most require subsidies.
2. Fact: Athletes are compensated; tuition, room & board, cost of attendance stipend, training, clothing, medical, etc. to the tune of hundreds of thousands of dollars. Opinion, I think they are fairly compensated. I put myself through college and we put 2 kids through, it ain't cheap.

By the way, I don't consider Fact 2 any different than my situation in grad school (except that athletes got a lot more). I got tuition and a small stipend to do research. UF and my professor owned the work.

 

[78]

Why shouldn't they be allowed to make a buck the good old-fashioned entrepreneurial way? The current system is a huge veil of hypocrisy.

We can socialize it and demand the scholarship money back after they receive their first 1099-Misc for a half mil.

 

[Gator-Don]

California is big enough for a league of their own. Why wouldn't they attract all the best high school players who would, after all, like the idea of being paid while in college?

We really should consider trading California for Greenland strait up.

 

[oxrageous]

This is without question the beginning of the end of college football as we know it. Certainly no surprise that California would start the downfall, they feel it's their job.

 

[Swamp Donkey]

This is without question the beginning of the end of college football as we know it. Certainly no surprise that California would start the downfall, they feel it's their job.

Its time to send 78 to Gator Country.

 

[oxrageous]

Do these asshats being paid mean it will finally be okay to boo them? I was always told it's wrong to boo these "kids", as they aren't professionals.

 

[Swamp Queen]

Do these asshats being paid mean it will finally be okay to boo them? I was always told it's wrong to boo these "kids", as they aren't professionals.

Only if the shush you.

 

[78]

Its time to send 78 to Gator Country.

You'd rather see them steal from Dillard's or defraud universities through credit card scams?

 

[78]

If you're going to edit my post, Ox, can you at least take out the dislike? I've already gotten 15 of those from Law this evening.

 

[ThreatMatrix]

This is without question the beginning of the end of college football as we know it. Certainly no surprise that California would start the downfall, they feel it's their job.

This. I'm glad to have lived when I did because I got to see a lot of things before they went to shyt. College football being one of them. The notion of scholar-athletes was always thin but just substantive enough to make college football at least feel fair. Remember that it's supposed to be amateur athletics. Once players can make money off of their likeness, etc then players will just end up wherever they can get the most money. And it will flow down to every player not just the studs. Alabama boosters will gladly pay $100,000 for the autographs of every 5* in the country. Whoever can pay the most will have the best team. College football will be ruined.

 

[Swamp Queen]

So now we’re editing other people’s posts??

 

[oxrageous]

If you're going to edit my post, Ox, can you at least take out the dislike? I've already gotten 15 of those from Law this evening.

This thread is political enough we don't need to up the ante even more unnecessarily.

 

[oxrageous]

So now we’re editing other people’s posts??

Have you made a single post in the past 3 years that wasn't a complaint about something?

 

[Swamp Queen]

Have you made a single post in the past 3 years that wasn't a complaint about something?

Many, yes.

 

[78]

Have you made a single post in the past 3 years that wasn't a complaint about something?

I'm surprised you hadn't already deported it. It's not just political, it has huge social implications.

 

[78]

Oops, responded to the wrong post. How in the hell did that happen? That was almost like a sleight of hand.

 

[KronoGator]

This whole thread is hysterical.