Scholarships or Compensation. College Athletes can't do both.

[☑︎#VoteDemocrat]

Also, the discrepancy between the divisions of colleges AND sport-specific revenue is something that needs to be resolved.

College athletes are asked to do demanding things, but knowing the ones I saw that were in non-major sports OR at D-2 and D-3 schools, they managed to not only thrive but to utilize their scholastic opportunities.

I think there is a role for amateurism and something has to remain in place to highlight that.







...on a side note, I wish US Soccer would allow more younger players to go into club level without attending college first ...we'd be a lot more competitive internationally if we could

 

[Pure Water]

A lot of the players don't want to go to school anyway so there's that.

Also, a lot of this could be put to rest if they allowed players to make money off of their own likeness. These players should be able to do ads, sell merchandise, etc. to get money for themselves. NCAA just being greedy and racist.

 

[onelastdeath]

If we're going to go the whole it's an amateur league route, there should be a cap on how much the coaches can make. They don't get paid like amateur coaches. Unless you think 5 million a year is what someone coaching in an amateur league should make.

Also, Coaches get compensation, can make money off their likeness, and enjoy faculty perks all at the same time.

 

[SmoothOperator88]

A lot of the players don't want to go to school anyway so there's that.

Also, a lot of this could be put to rest if they allowed players to make money off of their own likeness. These players should be able to do ads, sell merchandise, etc. to get money for themselves. NCAA just being greedy and racist.

Bolded for truth. Again, you have the issue of inequity for the non-revenue programs. But this is only an issue for the revenue sports. If players could make money off of their likeness and merch this issue could have been resolved years ago. I don't see any good reason why the NCAA doesn't allow this.

 

[lutha]

why the fukk cant they do both?.....before i state my thoughts, i'm wait to hear why you think that, cause you didnt actually state a reason(s)....

 

[resurrection]

A lot of the players don't want to go to school anyway so there's that.

Also, a lot of this could be put to rest if they allowed players to make money off of their own likeness. These players should be able to do ads, sell merchandise, etc. to get money for themselves. NCAA just being greedy and racist.

This exactly

You're not asking schools to pay them salaries as if they're employees. You're not asking the NCAA to stop being greedy, they can keep hoarding all that cash they rake in. You're solving for the dilemma of how to fairly compensate across different sports and different levels of achievement for the individual players. Just let them take fukking endorsements and profit off their likenesses. Boom done. The ones who have real market value will get handsomely rewarded and the ones who don't won't.

 

[Edub]

With all the money the universities and the NCAA takes in....yea they can do both

 

[Donald Trumps Twitter]

What happens to the scholarships for players who enter the draft early?

 

[GunRanger]

With all the money the universities and the NCAA takes in....yea they can do both

Money is simply a form of compensation.


If you're compensating players with scholarships that cost hundreds of thousands, then they're no longer amateur athletes. Theyre paid players.

 

[boskey]

why the fukk cant they do both?.....before i state my thoughts, i'm wait to hear why you think that, cause you didnt actually state a reason(s)....

With all the money the universities and the NCAA takes in....yea they can do both

Yup. This is bullshyt. If you work at a college you can take classes for free, your kids get free tuition AND you get a paycheck every 2 weeks.

Of course they can do both

 

[boskey]

Money is simply a form of compensation.


If you're compensating players with scholarships that cost hundreds of thousands, then they're no longer amateur athletes. Theyre paid players.

Good point (I think.) You can't argue that a scholarship is already compensation then also argue that they are amateurs that don't need to be compensated

 

[Uitomy]

With all the money the universities and the NCAA takes in....yea they can do both

They better give all the other students more money back and allowances and shyt period for paying half of that in tuition

 

[boskey]

They better give all the other students more money back and allowances and shyt period for paying half of that in tuition

The other students weren't recruited to attend the school. They are free to go somewhere cheaper.

Its like saying "If Nike can give Kobe money AND free shoes then they better give the rest of the customers a refund"

 

[resurrection]

What happens to the scholarships for players who enter the draft early?

They don't receive it anymore, and the team can allocate it to an incoming freshman or a walk-on or someone else instead

And I think it's important to note how much it costs to go to an American university in terms of tuition, room/board, books, etc. To have that taken care of is a lot more valuable than it used to be. Ask anyone who has student loans or had to pay his/her own way through school about the value of a full scholarship.

 

[Uitomy]

The other students weren't recruited to attend the school. They are free to go somewhere cheaper. Its like saying "If Nike can give Kobe money AND free shoes then they better give the rest of the customers a refund"

Actually students do get recruited to go to school, plenty of schools send people to high schools and middle schools to talk about the colleges, at UCF we have tours literally every day, and they will email you relentlessly everyday checking up on you and will call in some cases too. For athletes their recruiting is more personal and suited to them but schools go after everyone they can dude, and athletes don't have to pay for anything here regardless, do you know how many fees other students pay for shyt they don't use goes into their tuition?