Florida is next and likely sooner than later.
Yep. Others put your post as high. Guess not -
Does Tim Tebow know? Florida bill would allow college athletes to cash in
Which legislator let’s their state’s college teams be at a disadvantage due to their actions?
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.
Can’t we assume Facts 1&2 are correct, and still add Fact 3: some athletes are in position to make money now based on their play from third party endorsements? These are not opposite positions unless you just believe Athlete’s are some limited area that need to have third party income suppressed. Maybe you do, but it’s not because of these facts. It almost has to be competitive concerns across such an already imbalanced sport.
he NCAA should just tell any team that allows their players to get paid that they can't compete in any NCAA sponsored events such as bowl games, post-season tournaments, etc.
The Power 5 are already under separate rules from the rest and have a right to issue their own legislation. If the NCAA destroys the PAC 12, and SEC (since some southern state is going to do the same to protect its school), the Power 5 split from the NCAA (those schools hold the greatest value, not their self selected regulator). This might be the end of the NCAA basketball tourney, but not college football or basketball. Those top schools can just select a new regulation body or commissioner.
At bare minimum, I would make any endorsements go into a trust fund to get paid once the athlete graduates. If he doesn't graduate in so many years, the money goes to other players at that school.
WHY? No other 18-22 year olds are forced to have their money managed by a stranger (maybe they should). Why is it this athlete has to be so limited, especially if working with an agent who can place them with a financial manager? Granted, many will be idiots, blow the money, get robbed by trusted advisors, etc. but, that happens literally everywhere. Even the trustee of this hypothetical trust could commit a crime when given power over funds. It’s not just Athletes: look how many ponzi schemes feast on the wealthy?
NewSo this is how amateur sports dies.
Who won last years FCS Playoffs. What about the D2 basketball tournament? That is about the only place you are watching full amateurism.
Newsflash, it’s been dead at the highest levels for decades. Its just been illegal, causing all of these schools (us too) to cheat.
As to the Yankee’s reference (in a different post) for dominating player acquisition (and Swamp Donkey’s ironic dislike for this law), once we move a portion of the money we all already spend on Gator sports away from the control of the UAA (who sends it to sports we don’t care about), the Gators are the Yankees. Again, maybe Texas are the Red Sox and ND are the Dodgers, but if our team fervor was truly monetized to the product interest on the field we stand to gain, not lose. Schools like Miss St or Vandy on the other hand, are (still) F’d (but is that really any more than already exists)?
Why don’t we want our $ supporting our Gator football interest going to those that make it better instead of the women’s rowing team? We have 100 plus page threads bytching about this, yet if the Athletes get it we oppose it? This would remove the destructor plate the UAA (and federal government) place upon our competing equally or ahead of schools when we have more football interest. Bama, for instance, clearly puts money were it is earned. We don’t. Unless this happens and the market will make it so.
