Nothing in it for the players

ChosenChildren

ChosenChildren

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Conference realignment - TV deals - millions of dollars for the big schools.

What is in it for the players? Nothing!!!

The Ivy League has it right. College football is a beast that is out of control.

Why not just pay the players - everything else about BCS college football is "professional" and money is king. The players should get a big piece of the action -- why not? They do all the hard work.
 
It's called a free education, room and board, tutors and mentors plus 4-5 of the best years of their lives. There are 100s of thousands of kids that pay their own way or borrow money through student loans every year that would be very happy to have the opportunity to play a sport in lieu of the student loans that they accumulate.
 
NorthFloridaHawkeye said:
USC already does.
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This supports the point I want to make. They already get paid under the table. Could you imagine what would happen in the NCAA opens a can of worms by allowing them to get paid. Just another thing to have to police. Literally, it would bust college sports because the schools with the most $ would only be the competitive schools each year getting the best players. There would literally be only a handful of top schools in each sport.

You would have the Yankees then the rest.
 
Your point is valid...

MelroseHawkins said:
This supports the point I want to make. They already get paid under the table. Could you imagine what would happen in the NCAA opens a can of worms by allowing them to get paid. Just another thing to have to police. Literally, it would bust college sports because the schools with the most $ would only be the competitive schools each year getting the best players. There would literally be only a handful of top schools in each sport.

You would have the Yankees then the rest.
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and beyond that, if you are paying football players, you would have to play EVERY scholarship athlete, men and women. Should schools start paying football players and no one else, the lawsuits would be filed by scholarship athletes from non-revenue teams by the next day. All of a sudden the dollars don't go so far if you are having to play every scholarship athlete.
The value of an education for an athlete from out-of-state of the college he or she is attending can be $100,000 or more, plus room and board which is free. How much more do they need?
 
pin2win said:
once college players get paid there will be NO good sports to watch!!!

HORRIBLE IDEA
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Exactly!! I like college sports so much better than professional sec to being "amateur", allegedly. There is still a lot going on under-the-table, but at least it still has some amateurism in it. If the paying college athletes can of worms is opened, then all bets are off. It would kill college athletics.

Those are very good points mentioned above by Dodger. I never thought that other college athletes would want to get paid. There are only two sports in schools that are revenue-generating, 1) Football & 2) Basketball (And at many schools is not revenue-generating - See Iowa). They support the rest including the Title IX women sports or whatever it is. How is one to measure the worth of a player in all the other sports.

Would not be good.
 
plus iowa couldn't afford to pay recruits as much as the texas schools etc.

nothing good comes from it
 
ChosenChildren said:
Conference realignment - TV deals - millions of dollars for the big schools.

What is in it for the players? Nothing!!!

The Ivy League has it right. College football is a beast that is out of control.

Why not just pay the players - everything else about BCS college football is "professional" and money is king. The players should get a big piece of the action -- why not? They do all the hard work.
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Other than not being burden with with anything from $30,000 to $100,000 in debt after 4 or 5 years of college you're right there is nothing in it for the players.
 
Not to beat a dead horse since so many have already, but not ever kid gets a free ride through college in this great country. They're receiving about $10-15k, depending on school, a year in college fees PLUS they don't have the interest and payments on them for 6 years or however long after so they are getting compensated just fine.
 
ChosenChildren said:
Conference realignment - TV deals - millions of dollars for the big schools.

What is in it for the players? Nothing!!!

The Ivy League has it right. College football is a beast that is out of control.

Why not just pay the players - everything else about BCS college football is "professional" and money is king. The players should get a big piece of the action -- why not? They do all the hard work.
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If you think

a)the free education
b)the alumni connections that help players receive jobs after college if they don't go pro

are 'nothing' then yeah, they get nothing.
 
i don't know one college athlete that was worth a damn be out of job....most are hard working so anybody will hire them on...maybe they won't be making millions but i garantee its more than the average college grad
 
#1--Free education is great. But very few athletes get to pursue the degree of their choice. Pre-med? Pre-pharmacy/pharmacy? Pre-nursing/nursing? Engineering? Please. It's called "keep eligible." Rocks for jocks is alive and well. Not all degrees are created equal.

#2--The education isn't free per se. These student/athletes are putting out 50+ hours per week during the season and about 50% of that during the "off season" (if there is one). They earn it. A lot is given for sure, but a lot is expected. Try living under a spotlight/microscope for 5 years in Iowa City.

#3--If it wasn't for these players, there wouldn't be the BCS, BTN, new Kinnick stadium, women's sports, wrestling....in essence the FB kids generate the millions and millions and millions of dollars the schools bank every year. We can't give them $100 a month for pizza and other incidentals? Please.

Pay them.
It keeps the criminal/booster element out of it.
They've earned it.
 
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ChosenChildren said:
Conference realignment - TV deals - millions of dollars for the big schools.

What is in it for the players? Nothing!!!

The Ivy League has it right. College football is a beast that is out of control.

Why not just pay the players - everything else about BCS college football is "professional" and money is king. The players should get a big piece of the action -- why not? They do all the hard work.
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+1
 
The argument that paying players will keep illegal booster / agent behavior out of college sports is so naive it is really almost hard to take you seriously. All that would happen is that star players would get their stipends padded even more.

Also, answer this question, should players just get a stipend and still be responsible for their books, tuition and board? Because it seems odd to cover their expenses and also pay them, doesn't it?
 
SDK46 said:
#1--Free education is great. But very few athletes get to pursue the degree of their choice. Pre-med? Pre-pharmacy/pharmacy? Pre-nursing/nursing? Engineering? Please. It's called "keep eligible." Rocks for jocks is alive and well. Not all degrees are created equal.

Be honest, most of these kids playing sports wouldn't go for these types of degrees in the first place if they went to the school without an athletic scholarship.

#2--The education isn't free per se. These student/athletes are putting out 50+ hours per week during the season and about 50% of that during the "off season" (if there is one). They earn it. A lot is given for sure, but a lot is expected. Try living under a spotlight/microscope for 5 years in Iowa City.

I can't really argue with this point. Except I highly doubt they would spend this 50+ hours studying if they weren't playing football. They would be doing something else not helping the school.

#3--If it wasn't for these players, there wouldn't be the BCS, BTN, new Kinnick stadium, women's sports, wrestling....in essence the FB kids generate the millions and millions and millions of dollars the schools bank every year. We can't give them $100 a month for pizza and other incidentals? Please.

As soon as you give them $100 they will start to find envelopes filled with money that "accidently" must have been placed in the wrong envelope. This is a can of worms that should never be opened. Do you really think if giving a kid $100 was ok'd by the NCAA that schools like USC, Alabama, etc... wouldn't start giving kids more and creating bigger problems then there already is? It would turn out to be a bidding service for a kids services for him to come play football at your school, whomever supplies the most money can have his services.

Pay them.
It keeps the criminal/booster element out of it.

Not even close and very misinformed if you believe this, read what I wrote above, it would actually increase the criminal/booster element of it.

They've earned it.
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