Maybe I'm getting too old and cynical, but I'm very skeptical that real changes will come that quickly for actually relatively fair compensations to the student-athletes since what is fair is highly debatable. NCAA had taken a hardline that any kind of compensation would be a slippery slope for everyone getting paid and the capitalistic market dominating the college sports landscape, but I think there will be a ton of regulations (many of them probably dumb and will quickly become antiquated) still. This also gives reasons/excuses for the NCAA to exist.
This has echos to me of many other fights for equality. Resisted, denigrated and later, maybe, accepted. I was slow to this twenty years ago, but I have found no argument in my own mind that wins against it. Having been a Cal student who paid my own way through, back when tuition was only $800 a semester in 1988, and had to work 20 hours a week to pay rent and life, I can begin to relate to the challenges student-athletes face. It's deeply right that since they are over 18, they are able to monetize their efforts. Universities should in no way be able to profit so greatly from the athletic success of students.
my hot take: this will contract the FBS, and Cal will fall out of it. I just don't see people being ok with us being in an arms race against the Ohio States and the Texas's of the college football world. The frustrating thing is our rivals will probably be in the thick of it
I hope I'm wrong and some rich alumni step up to it, but there's just too much resistance to it on and off campus for me to be confident that Cal will be able to mobilize itself to compete there.
Maybe I'm getting too old and cynical, but I'm very skeptical that real changes will come that quickly for actually relatively fair compensations to the student-athletes since what is fair is highly debatable. NCAA had taken a hardline that any kind of compensation would be a slippery slope for everyone getting paid and the capitalistic market dominating the college sports landscape, but I think there will be a ton of regulations (many of them probably dumb and will quickly become antiquated) still. This also gives reasons/excuses for the NCAA to exist.
This has echos to me of many other fights for equality. Resisted, denigrated and later, maybe, accepted. I was slow to this twenty years ago, but I have found no argument in my own mind that wins against it. Having been a Cal student who paid my own way through, back when tuition was only $800 a semester in 1988, and had to work 20 hours a week to pay rent and life, I can begin to relate to the challenges student-athletes face. It's deeply right that since they are over 18, they are able to monetize their efforts. Universities should in no way be able to profit so greatly from the athletic success of students.
my hot take: this will contract the FBS, and Cal will fall out of it. I just don't see people being ok with us being in an arms race against the Ohio States and the Texas's of the college football world. The frustrating thing is our rivals will probably be in the thick of it
I hope I'm wrong and some rich alumni step up to it, but there's just too much resistance to it on and off campus for me to be confident that Cal will be able to mobilize itself to compete there.
I agree - the days of serfdom are over. Thanks for the article.