So your answer is yes, anyone should be exploited by the universities. You're a sick fuck.
That was a moronic thing to say.
Only a Game
79 Head coaches make over a million while only 22 of the top 120 Football programs make a profit.
College athletics produces revenue. But very few programs produce revenue in excess of their costs. That is, they are net money losers.
Still, if 79 schools can afford to pay their coaches a million plus, I don't see why spreading that wealth around to the student athletes should be a problem. (Other than, the NCAA and the coaches don't want anything to impede their own gravy trains...)
Uno
Team may decide you didn't work hard enough or are not gifted enough to play, and there goes that scholarship next year.
Professor may decide you didn't work hard enough or are not smart enough to get an A, and there goes that academic scholarship next year.
Slavery is more moronic, but you're for that too.
NLRB regional director Peter Sung Ohr cited the players' time commitment to their sport and the fact that their scholarships were tied directly to their performance as reasons for granting them union rights.
Ohr wrote in his ruling that the players "fall squarely within the [National Labor Relations] Act's broad definition of 'employee' when one considers the common law definition of 'employee.'"
Ohr ruled that the players can hold a vote on whether they want to be represented by the College Athletes Players Association, which brought the case to the NLRB along with former Wildcats quarterback Kain Colter and the United Steelworkers union...
Ruling PDF
UPDATE 3/26/14:
Chicago district of the National Labor Relations Board rules Northwestern football players are "Employees" by commonlaw def., win bid to unionize
IT'S ON!
(Appeals to follow?)
So everyone here thinks the money NCAA pulls in from bowl games, TV deals and colleges from boosters aren't enough to fund AD's of other colleges if they shared this?
Edit I guess sharing booster money wouldn't make sense. But from the games, ticket sales and TV deals there is a HUGE pot that could be split up.
The school is already appealing to the full NLRB in DC. Its going to be a protracted case now. Nice to see the NCAA get some egg on its face.
I really don't get why the NCAA is fighting the players on this. A players union would help standardize the treatment of players and help negotiate their rights. Has the NCAA actually come out with any reasons other than "we won't control everything anymore!"?
I really don't get why the NCAA is fighting the players on this. A players union would help standardize the treatment of players and help negotiate their rights. Has the NCAA actually come out with any reasons other than "we won't control everything anymore!"?
Because $$$.
The NCAA doesn't want to share any of it's billions of revenue it's generating more than it has to with the players.
Fine, treat the players as employees. Remove ALL scholarships for football and let the players pay their own way for tuition, room & board, books, fees, etc. Then give them profit sharing. See how greedy they are for their slice of the pie when they find out there is no pie. Those free rides will start looking REALLY good.
From Northwestern's site:
Total undergraduate tuition, fees, room and board at Northwestern will increase 4 percent to $59,389 in 2013-2014 from the current years $57,108.
A football scholarship is worth a freaking quarter of a million dollars. Take it and shut up or pay your own way.
"They make a bunch of money on scholarships" is such a stupid fucking idiotic argument.
Yes, college football and basketball players do get compensated. The problem is that the NCAA is a corrupt cartel that forces the players to work for lower than the market rate. The NCAA stealing their potential wages.
College Football is the third most popular sport in the USA right behind MLB and the NCAA still wants to pretend that it is on the same level as something like water polo while they continue to rake in tons of cash.
Okay, what is the market value for an amateur football player? Who is willing to pay them to play? For the overwhelming majority of them the NFL and CFL wouldn't pay them a dime, so their market value is ZERO.
"They make a bunch of money on scholarships" is such a stupid fucking idiotic argument.
Yes, college football and basketball players do get compensated. The problem is that the NCAA is a corrupt cartel that forces the players to work for lower than the market rate. The NCAA stealing their potential wages.
Also, instead of being paid in cash, most of their compensation is in tuition, which they don't value.
Aren't these college students? They're priority should be on their studies, not football. Education first, games second. A very, very distant second. Probably 3rd or 4th.
Aren't these college students? They're priority should be on their studies, not football. Education first, games second. A very, very distant second. Probably 3rd or 4th.