I know many on this site are in favor of paying student athletes, I am one of the few opposed, while I do think that scholarship amounts should be raised to a level where a student athlete can live comfortably while in school. Here is my take on the situation: 1. If anyone should pay the athletes (and the schools) it should be the NFL as college football is effectively a farm system for the NFL - or let the NFL start their own farm system and athletes that want to be paid can go there instead of to college. 2. Paying athletes will create serious inequities in the system. The schools that spend the most will buy the best teams. Who sets a 'salary cap' for players and teams? What happens to programs that won't spend big bucks? They won't be competitive and will eventually die. What happens when a player decides to transfer from one school to another for a bigger paycheck? 3. How do you figure out how much to pay each player? Is there a formula? Is there a draft on signing day to allow the free market to dictate salaries? There should be a simple solution: the NCAA keeps the rules it has and the NFL should start a farm system for kids who want to get paid. Increase scholarship amounts so kids can rent a decent apartment, buy some jeans now and then and fly home for the holidays. Lastly, the NFL ought to donate an amount of at least 10% of the value all the draft contracts each year to the NCAA since without the NCAA they would not be in business. That's my take. I appreciate the virtue signaling but the results are like what just happened with MLB moving the All-Star game to a lilly white city in a state with voting laws more restrictive than Georgia. The MLB Commissioner really should resign from Augusta.
I know many on this site are in favor of paying student athletes, I am one of the few opposed, while I do think that scholarship amounts should be raised to a level where a student athlete can live comfortably while in school. Here is my take on the situation: 1. If anyone should pay the athletes (and the schools) it should be the NFL as college football is effectively a farm system for the NFL - or let the NFL start their own farm system and athletes that want to be paid can go there instead of to college. 2. Paying athletes will create serious inequities in the system. The schools that spend the most will buy the best teams. Who sets a 'salary cap' for players and teams? What happens to programs that won't spend big bucks? They won't be competitive and will eventually die. What happens when a player decides to transfer from one school to another for a bigger paycheck? 3. How do you figure out how much to pay each player? Is there a formula? Is there a draft on signing day to allow the free market to dictate salaries? There should be a simple solution: the NCAA keeps the rules it has and the NFL should start a farm system for kids who want to get paid. Increase scholarship amounts so kids can rent a decent apartment, buy some jeans now and then and fly home for the holidays. Lastly, the NFL ought to donate an amount of at least 10% of the value all the draft contracts each year to the NCAA since without the NCAA they would not be in business. That's my take. I appreciate the virtue signaling but the results are like what just happened with MLB moving the All-Star game to a lilly white city in a state with voting laws more restrictive than Georgia. The MLB Commissioner really should resign from Augusta.
very high probability of a complete cluster F* for a transition.