Yet another reason they need to apply consistent admission standards! If a football player is illiterate after 12th grade, go play in a minor league until the NFL allows you to be drafted.
Could you point to that minor league?
nerd-As long as the university name is NOT used for the teams, I’d have zero problem with that!
The CFL, Arena League, UFL.
Those leagues aren’t pipelines to the NFL. They’re where players go when they’re no longer eligible for NCAA play but couldn’t cut it in the NFL.
They’re still making more than they would flipping burgers.
Of course they’d use the university name - the point is to establish continuity between the system as it is and the new system. There’d have to be some kind of licensing agreement between the team and the school, but the names are what the fans are going to follow. Try it without the university names and it’s dead in the water.
Aye, but only in the same way you have the right to buy enough gold bricks to build a house out of them.
Just scrap the employers’ NCAA no-play-for-pay rule and see what shakes out on an open market.
So I guess we’re whoring out higher education? :rolleyes:
Do you really think the NCAA isn’t a pimp?
Bo-I agree people have a right to living wage. The majority of the athletes we’re talking about will end up with a wage for about 50 lifetimes.
They’re SUPPOSED to be the governing body of college sports! But they allowed themselves to be bullied around by college presidents, and now THEY run the show.
Oooh, a college that doesn’t provide any sort of activities or teams or sports or clubs - yeah, that’ll just rake in the students. That isn’t a valid response for a college to take in order to avoid paying their athletes.
Well gosh, it’s almost as if the college is providing something of value to its football players aside from the opportunity to receive a quality education! Imagine that - and they say they want to get paid on top of it? Well I’ll be…
Again, more nonsense. You made the statement that participation in extracurriculars required students to be academically eligible. Back it up, or retract it. Or maybe post a complete thought once in a while.
Munch-If they want to get paid, GET A JOB!!
And yet here we are, in a thread about a ruling that claims playing college athletics IS a job. Do try to keep up.
How many college athletes do you know? 
The vast, vast, vast majority do not end up with 50x living wage.
I believe the NCAA places some pretty serious restrictions on jobs that can be held by student athletes. No doubt this is to prevent a booster from giving the star player a cushy summer job for $40k but it does prevent legitimate work.
I agree, although i would add that the draft system used by major pro sports like baseball and football, along with other mechanisms like salary caps, arbitration, and set periods before free agency all mean that many pro players are not paid at market value either.
Mike Trout will get $1,000,000 from the Angels this year. If he were being paid at market value, he’d get at least twenty times that. I’m not crying for him or anything, but pro sports have also engaged in plenty of collusion and violation of free market principles, not least in their constant clamoring for public money to fund their massive, profit-generating stadiums.