ImTheCaptain
I disagree with you
No you wouldn't. Not if you were a grad assistant in basketball or football. Because that is exactly what they tell you.
If we pay players then they need to pay for the services. Charge them tuition, charge them tutor fees, charge them housing, charge them food. 99% of college athletes aren't worth the jersey on their back.
The 1% subsidize the 99%. I am truly surprised that PH is pushing this as the only people to benefit from this deal are the top 1% of basketball and football players, and in the process of getting paid the entire system that makes their fame possible will be destroyed.
Alabama fans love Alabama football because the guys in the field are wearing an Alabama jersey no because of the name on the back. Destroy school pride (which is what dismantling the collegiate system will do) and you destroy the product.
This is such a stupid idea for so many reasons the chief of which being that within the decade the very system which pays the superstars will no longer exist.
Players get paid. Just like grad assistants or anyone else gets paid. If they don't like the deal they can go play pro ball overseas. No one forces them to sign a scholarship. Those northwestern players are idiots. They are probably taking in a lifestyle of close 100k a year and are treated like gods in the prime of their life. Yeah, they are truly oppressed. Idiots.
meh, board/gear is just part of the benefits package/tools of the trade for an athlete. Athletes need a more rigorous schedule for practice/nutrition (lol)/ exercise. All of those are part of the investment looking for a return on the field/stadium/tv/ad revenue.
Schools provide microscopes, lab equipment/supplies/computers for researchers and still pay them. What's the difference?