Lawsuit has conferences quietly preparing for the likelihood of compensating players

[UFHealthGator]

Lawsuit has conferences quietly preparing for the likelihood of compensating players

"Example: If the plaintiffs win, as expected, the SEC could theoretically compensate athletes with cars. Meanwhile, another league could offer … better cars or apartments or …"

Theoretically?

 

[78]

Pardon me for asking. What percent good in life does anyone affix to there being lawyers?

 

[alcoholica]

Players are compensated, tax free I believe

 

[InstiGATOR1]

Players are compensated, tax free I believe

Exactly, the NCAA can respond removing all rules about compensation and declaring ineligible anyone who is a professional athlete. Then we shall see what the conferences and the judge would do.

 

[Omar's Coming Yo!]

Exactly, the NCAA can respond removing all rules about compensation and declaring ineligible anyone who is a professional athlete. Then we shall see what the conferences and the judge would do.

The conferences can then form their own leagues

 

[InstiGATOR1]

The conferences can then form their own leagues

They the conferences are leagues. Perhaps you mean can form their own association. They can do that today if they want.

 

[KronoGator]

Anything that hurts UCF sounds fine to me.

 

[GatorMan5K]

This would be horrible for Florida. As cheap as we have been in the "arms race" on facilities, imagine how bad this will be. Other schools buying players escalades and Corvettes, while we are buying kids Vespa scooters.

 

[stephenPE]

Yeah, but we can sleep at night knowing our athletes are not pampered and enabled by all the luxury. Luxury makes one weak. Imagine how many bad asss athletes (some) would react to :come to Fla. We aint dont want a buncha pansy ass video game/putt putt playing/ hot tub soaking/ pampered pussies. We want football players who want to work hard, play hard and be prepared for life. And the NFL if that is your goal we can get you there..........

 

[Swamp Donkey]

Pardon me for asking. What percent good in life does anyone affix to there being lawyers?

Once again, in English?

 

[Swamp Donkey]

This would be horrible for Florida. As cheap as we have been in the "arms race" on facilities, imagine how bad this will be. Other schools buying players escalades and Corvettes, while we are buying kids Vespa scooters.

Vespas? Shyt those things are expensive.

We pay a fraction of the cost of attendance stipends for players already, second lowest in SEC and ACC as I recall. You can imagine how bad it will be as the caps gets moved again or removed entirely.

Maybe we will promise to give them on in 2022 or some later year down the road.... maybe...

 

[Double Gator Dad]

I guess this will make them state employees and therefore they will have to adhere to all the hiring guidelines and requirements that normal people do today. Be careful what you wish for guys

 

[ChiefGator]

How about allowing alternatives, you can get the current deal, or you can be an employee who pays for all those benefits that they get. So you get a salary and benefits and pay for everything else. I might insist that training, exposure and coaching is worth a million per year, maybe more.

 

[rogdochar]

Once player payment is allowed. Bama will pay them in PEDs with a manual "How to Deal in PEDs for Supplemental Income".

 

[Circle City Gator]

Pardon me for asking. What percent good in life does anyone affix to there being lawyers?

Here's a short list to start with:

Anybody who believes they should be able to marry outside their race. Loving v. Virginia

Anybody who believes in freedom of the press. New York Times v. Sullivan

Anybody who believes a person accused of a crime and facing prison should have the right to counsel. Gideon v. Wainwright

Anybody who believes people are entitled to the same public education as their neighbors, no matter the color of their skin. Brown v. Board of Education

Anybody who believes the President is not above the law. US v. Nixon

Anybody who believes what happens in the bedroom between two consenting adults is none of the government's business. Lawrence v. Texas

Anybody who believes in an individual right to bear arms. District of Columbia v. Heller

 

[Swamp Donkey]

First, kill all the lawyers.

 

[CU-UF]

About time, good for the athletes

 

[gatormandan]

First, kill all the lawyers.

And any donkeys associated with them...

 

[Circle City Gator]

First, kill all the lawyers.

The (mis) quote is from Shakespeare's Henry VI, Part 2, Act IV, Scene 2. The full quote is "The first thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers.” For those who don’t understand, the point was not to get rid of lawyers, but to observe that the first step in anarchy, in doing away with civilization, was to get rid of lawyers.

 

[Swamp Donkey]

And yet.... kill most of the lawyers