The players don't directly generate revenue for the schools as much as they do for the conferences and the NCAA.
So perhaps the parties who use their likeness in promotions should pay royalties.
The players don't directly generate revenue for the schools as much as they do for the conferences and the NCAA.
So perhaps the parties who use their likeness in promotions should pay royalties.
Or maybe like you or someone suggested cut the NCAA out.
Perhaps the answer is to let the athletes themselves profit from their own likenesses. Since athletes have limited time to work, allow them to work in advertising. They could allow the stars to keep a percentage of what they earn in advertising and put the rest into a fund used to help athletes who aren't stars. Let them get a cut of the product sales that involve them such as numbered jerseys and photographs. They could make money for themselves, for their fellow student athletes, and promote the university at the same time. It's about the only way I can see to bring in more money without the risk of forcing cuts elsewhere. They could even put caps on how much you can make to help cut back on the increased disadvantages smaller universities would suffer and so it wouldn't degrade into a pay to play scheme.
HELL NO, they are getting a 4 yr free ride. Scholarship, housing, meals = $50k / yr. Most of the grads will not make $50k / yr for several years and will be repaying student loans out of that. The athletes ARE getting paid now, they may come from poverty, they have an OPORTUNITY at a FREE education, IF they choose NOT to take advantage of it, I have no sympathy for them.
Without a doubt, stipend those kids. Stipends based off of the amount of hours devoted to said sport per NCAA regulations plus the amount of revenue received. Factor that out to a per season stipend and pay it out however, weekly, monthly, per season... I think weekly is best. Or, use the Hart Lee Dykes formula.
And you guys talking about a free ride- there is no such thing.
And you guys talking about a free ride- there is no such thing.
In lieu of an education.
Can't remember the name, but one graduated from OSU, and couldn't read or write.
BUT, HE could run with a football!!!
That was Dexter Manley. He went through four years at OSU and remained functionally illiterate, but those were very different times. The last stats that I heard were that athletes actually have a higher graduation rate than the general student bodies at NCAA schools.
And Manley might've been able to run with a football, but, as a defensive lineman, he didn't get much of a chance to try it.
It already is pay-to-play. To recruit the best players, you need incentives that reach beyond your school's prestige. Spending $$$ on incentives for top recruits in turn puts together a better team that goes farther in March Madness where the NCAA pays the athletic programs a purse for finishing in certain positions thus creating more funding for incentives for top tier recruits. Once the school makes the buy-in, the NCAA ensures they are set.
And you paid a chunk of taxes, SS and medicare on the money you worked for. They don't, haven't and won't. Also, if you went to any ball games you helped pay their scholarships as well. I love college football and I can think of nothing that would ruin the sport more than paying college athletes money instead of scholarships. The next inevitable step would be players wearing endorsements. The last thing I'd want to see is Bubba Sanchez the all American center bending over with a stencil of Trojans sewn on his ass.
I thought that was the norm for OSU.
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