Dear NCAA: This Needs To Be Fixed
NO, NOT TODD GURLEY … YOUR ONGOING ECONOMIC CHARADE By FITSNEWS || Another year, another riYou must Subscribe or log in to read the rest of this content.
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Will:
While I share many of your sentiments, you completely bastardize logic on one particular point.
“Next, we believe restrictions that prohibit individuals from participating in professional athletics due to their age are inherently wrong.”
Based on your example–The NFL– you are arguing that professional football (as a business) has been forced to create these entry rules? By the government?
No, my friend. I see no constraints on the NFL, other than those that the organization chose to enforce. That is, the NFL balanced whatever risk versus return it would generate by imposing an “age” or “experience” restriction. After carefully performing this balancing test, it felt the compelling interests of allowing an 18yr old to play were outweighed by whatever value it gained by imposing such a restriction.
I don’t think you can have it both ways. The NFL is a business. It is making a choice. The almighty invisible hand will teach it to change its ways if this restriction is not the most market-friendly. Were a federal agency to impose these restrictions, then you have a point. However, the NFL chose to keep the age where it is because it made the most sense for its bottom line (we must assume). For example, having a bunch of immature 18yr olds making enormous money, and physically abusing their bodies, likely would result in bad public relations. Who knows? But that’s the point of the free market, right? We don’t need an explanation.
Don’t you know that the NFL is a not-for-profit organization and has an exemption from antitrust law?
http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2013-09-19/a-republican-senator-s-lonely-mission-to-make-the-nfl-pay-taxes
I’m fully aware. However, just because it has an exemption doesn’t mean its immune from competition–or public opinion. Albeit, a tougher road. The NFL has done a fantastic job marketing itself–evidenced by all of the negative press, while still selling out stadiums and getting paid on television deals.
How about this, we eliminate all college athletics all together. No more problems with NCAA violations, the university returns to its core function of education and everybody is happy – or not. If these poor under-privileged kids have to wait two years to get their payday to bad – many of them, in addition to getting some education, are getting the first real discipline they’ve ever had. If it does the NFL a favor do be it. These prima donnas need to play by the rules or sit out and enter the draft when they’re eligible.
Paying them “something” as Spurrier has suggested won’t work because the little darlings will always feel entitled to more. I once swam at the collegiate level, we got Jack all four it, I was just glad to have a chance to continue competing. Football paid for most of the expense of our program and just about everything else except basketball.
Too much money in it now.
This is America and now matter how much we trumpet our “values” it’s always about the money.
Ehh, it’s more like indentured servitude than slavery. Education and time limits aren’t something slavemasters tend to hand out.
It certainly seems more shrill and dramatic when you loosely throw around the slavery word, almost to the point of the misuse of the word racist. Of course it only serves to kill the meaning of the word and create an effect of boredom.
“College football – particularly at the
major conference level – has become the equivalent of a farm system for
the National Football League,”…has become, it’s been that way before you were a twinkle in your daddy’s eye.
There is something innately wrong with a person who is willing to pay money for another person’s signature in the first place. Worship one God. Think of all those little kids who waited in line for OJ Simpson’s signature through the years.
Paying an athlete for his signature isn’t worship.
IF SC did it, FITS would be trying to fire Spurrier, and put the Gamecocks on the Death Penalty. FITS when you are so obviously sycophantic for SC’s foes, your whining has NO credibility.
You do realize that your 15 minutes on this blog are over don’t you? You used to stir people up now we just ignore you.
So now you’re admitting I had “15 minutes.” You know, based on your other claims, that (along w/ so much you say) makes you look like a Dumb@$$…. (:
You HAD 15 minutes, people replied to your posts, now everyone is wise to your constant stupidity, you’re about as relevant as your so called blog… that is if it still exists. As much time as you spend here I wouldn’t be surprised if you abandoned it, you can only talk to yourself so much.
“You HAD 15 minutes, people replied to your posts, now everyone is wise to your constant stupidity, you’re about as relevant as your so called blog”……Oh the irony, the irony…. as you reply to my post…. (: Hahahaha…
Do you EVER get tired of making a Dumb@$$ of yourself??? …Hahahaha…
Done working on your blog for the night?
Go Emory!
So what do you suggest if a rich alumni wants to give every football player $50,000 for their autograph? Don’t you think that recruits will see this and decide based on what gifts they can receive at that school? What if another school alum decides that $50,000 signature is worth $100,000 to him?
The only way to fix it is to remove athletics from the schools and make them farm teams and pay the players what they’re worth to the teams. If they want to go to school they go through the same channels every non-athlete student follows.
Seriously … does anyone think Georgia head coach Mark Richt should make $3.2 million a year while Gurley gets nothing but free room and board?
I’d be interested to know what Will thinks Gurley should be paid. What’s a year’s worth of tuition, room and board, books, tutors, clothing, etc… worth? I’d say Gurley is being paid close to $50,000/year (untaxed) for playing football.
I went to Georgia on a full ride. But I didn’t earn the school millions of dollars. Comparing Gurley to a regular student with a scholarship isn’t really fair. The players should be paid for the time they spend specifically on football. If they made $15 an hour, it seems like it would cut down on some of this crap. Also, they should be free to sell autographs. A guy like Gurley would eventually get tired of signing things once he realizes he has plenty of spending cash to tide him over until he makes his real money in the NFL.
If you attended on an academic scholarship, you raised the academic standings of the school which draws in other top academic students who may not be on scholarship. Also it attracted better faculty which bring in grant and research money to the University.
So are you going to pay athletes on the swim, golf, volleyball, women’s basketball, equestrian and cheerleading teams $15/hr too? If not, prepare for EEOP lawsuits.
Never mind that- how about all that free pussy he’s getting!!!
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The farm system has worked for baseball for years. Kids in high school have a choice, go to college, get some education and delay a draft entry (maybe cash a big, fat check and play college ball) or go straight from high school into the farm system. How many of the top baseball players are college graduates?
All these people graduating from universities with up to hundreds of thousands of dollars of student loan, private loan and credit card debt? The scholarships are worth a bunch, whereever they are at. You can’t poo poo the cost they save.
All these people graduating from universities with up to hundreds of thousands of dollars of student loan, private loan and credit card debt? The scholarships are worth a bunch, whereever they are at. You can’t poo poo the cost they save.
Not only is the relationship between the NCAA and NFL cozy for the fat cats who get paid on the backs of these athletes, I think it is illegal. A kid has no choice but to enter college. He is not allowed to play in the NFL till be has been out of high school 3 years.
I wonder how many people in other firlds would enjoy that restraint of trade if they had to face it.
Why are universities in the business of providing sports entertainment to a mass TV audience? We know the answer. Let’s allow the “fat cat” NFL owners to pay for their own farm system and return to universities as institutions of higher education.
The days of the Stoops’ and the Sumlin’s making 5 million a year are numbered.
Four words to crush college football: Fall Experimental Football League
The FXFL will soon recruit out of highschools and offer paychecks and a road to the NFL. NFL rules state all prospective draftees must be at least three years removed from high school. Walla!
Again, he should have just rapes someone and the school/NCAA would never even have investigated the matter problem solved, he could have won a he is an gone to NFL whateves.
There is so much more wrong than this in college athletics. The NCAA should start a 10 year plan to have athletes meet the same requirements as regular students. Break out the books boys and girls.