BSpringsteen
Well-Known Member
CFN has a really interesting take on the admission this week from agent Josh Luchs about paying college athletes.
First off, it is a horrible idea for any number of reasons to formally pay football and basketball players, but the biggest one is that if players are being given money now, if you pay the players, they will still be given more money under the table. There will never be equity. There will never be parity if you walk down that path.
However, if a student at Iowa receives a music scholarship there is nothing stopping that person from doing everything in their power to make music their career and occupation while in college. They can talk to potential employers and do whatever is necessary to ensure their post collegiate success in the field of their choosing.
Yet this doesn't exist in college athletics. If you have the talent to be an NFL player, you can't even talk about it publicly hardly without the NCAA coming down on you.
Yet, the agents are hiding behind the hedges like paparazzi, waiting to pounce.
How do you solve the problem, clean up sports and give the players the attention they deserve all without paying your players.
Create classes and majors that players can take for credit that prepares them for a life in professional athletics. They can take business and marketing classes, accounting and finance classes. They can even take law classes and learn about the contracts they will be signing.
Not only that, but by doing this you create better professional athletes. If Chad Ocho Cinco realizes that the car that he bought for 250K cash because it can't be financed actually cost him 400K because of taxes, and how much he needs to actually make in salary to have 400K in cash, he might think twice.
The sheer number of NFL and NBA players who wind up bankrupt is astonishing, and maybe this would help them prepare better.
Agents could even come in and be guest teachers for a week.
Put it in front and let kids major in what they want to major in which for college football and basketball players will largely be a professional career.
And guess what, if they don't go pro, it's not like those classes will be useless for them, they will have basically learned how to run a business of which they are the CEO.
How many of you are using your degree?
You would basically be giving them a well rounded education but relating everything to a career in professional sports instead of something they have no interest in.
And while you are at it, give the players their entire scholarship and stipends in cash and have financial advisors who help them with budgeting, let them pay their bills like they are not on scholarship.
First off, it is a horrible idea for any number of reasons to formally pay football and basketball players, but the biggest one is that if players are being given money now, if you pay the players, they will still be given more money under the table. There will never be equity. There will never be parity if you walk down that path.
However, if a student at Iowa receives a music scholarship there is nothing stopping that person from doing everything in their power to make music their career and occupation while in college. They can talk to potential employers and do whatever is necessary to ensure their post collegiate success in the field of their choosing.
Yet this doesn't exist in college athletics. If you have the talent to be an NFL player, you can't even talk about it publicly hardly without the NCAA coming down on you.
Yet, the agents are hiding behind the hedges like paparazzi, waiting to pounce.
How do you solve the problem, clean up sports and give the players the attention they deserve all without paying your players.
Create classes and majors that players can take for credit that prepares them for a life in professional athletics. They can take business and marketing classes, accounting and finance classes. They can even take law classes and learn about the contracts they will be signing.
Not only that, but by doing this you create better professional athletes. If Chad Ocho Cinco realizes that the car that he bought for 250K cash because it can't be financed actually cost him 400K because of taxes, and how much he needs to actually make in salary to have 400K in cash, he might think twice.
The sheer number of NFL and NBA players who wind up bankrupt is astonishing, and maybe this would help them prepare better.
Agents could even come in and be guest teachers for a week.
Put it in front and let kids major in what they want to major in which for college football and basketball players will largely be a professional career.
And guess what, if they don't go pro, it's not like those classes will be useless for them, they will have basically learned how to run a business of which they are the CEO.
How many of you are using your degree?
You would basically be giving them a well rounded education but relating everything to a career in professional sports instead of something they have no interest in.
And while you are at it, give the players their entire scholarship and stipends in cash and have financial advisors who help them with budgeting, let them pay their bills like they are not on scholarship.
