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TAMUI do know, Newsie is right on you knowing ball.
I pretty much agree with TAMU and think most people who against really use poor logic to justify why they just like things the way they are.
It’s largely an American thing. Our fascination with amateurism and the purity of it is one of the weirdest quirks of our nation. It goes back to early 20th Century thinking of being a professional in sports as something of ill-repute outside baseball and boxing. And even then, baseball players couldn’t make a real living simply playing a sport. There is nothing remotely amateur about college basketball except the officiating. Coaches are paid millions of dollars, TV pays exorbitant rights fees and universities are in a constant arms race to build bigger and better facilities and we’re concerned athletes getting likeness compensation might open a Pandora’s Box to what? A few heavyweights might have an advantage? They already have that.I watch grown adults verbally assault college athletes, attack them online all in the name of winning and giving fans a chance to puff their chests out. It’s laughable to me we’re offended they want to earn off their skills.
Again you are lumping all college basketball together. What happens at the top 50 programs doesn’t mean the same is happening for the other 300, let alone D2 or D3.Most coaches are not paid millions of dollars.Most schools are not in an arms race.The high tv rights paid are for some conferences and many do not even have a tv deal at all.We keep trying to find a solution to a “problem” that not only doesn’t exist, but where it is perceived to exist only happens to a small number. Broad brush strokes trying to assess the small sliver that are also going to do just fine when they get out.You want to make a virtuous argument, your likeness can be marketed if you get a 3.0GPA and got to class.
Then those schools you claim aren’t in an arms race shouldn’t be participating at the same level as the major conferences. They happily take every dollar they can get from TV and the tournament. Amateurism is a sham meant to line the pockets of the few, not the many.
I’m trying to figure out what this has to do with profiting off your likeness? Is the argument the TV rights would be lower for the NCAA tourney, so it hurts smaller schools? Otherwise, why would it matter?
And Uncle Rico is right. Why are we insisting that the schools that have built successful programs subsidize their unsuccessful competitors?
Ahhh, surely you’re against Title IX!
But if the money goes to the players and not the schools in order to fund the other non revenue sports those sports will disappear. This is a circular argument going nowhere.
Yep.And Division 1 is too large anyway. They could drop 1/3 of its members and it would have no real impact on the game.
I suspect the fear is that if corporate sponsors are giving players endorsement deals, that will come from the came pool of money that today is going to the schools. Money for players = less money for the schools.And Uncle Rico is right. Why are we insisting that the schools that have built successful programs subsidize their unsuccessful competitors?
I’m trying to figure out what this has to do with profiting off your likeness? Is the argument the TV rights would be lower for the NCAA tourney, so it hurts smaller schools? Otherwise, why would it matter?I think people are thinking there’s this endless supply of money from boosters that are going to pay every player a million dollars a year. Some might shell out big bucks, but after the top few players, I doubt it will be a ton. The bust rate of the top 100 is high enough that the ROI doesn’t really make sense. If people are getting paid 100k to shoot a commercial at a car dealership in Kentucky, so be it. They’d probably get some form of that under the table now.
Why do we insist on successful people subsidizing other citizens....think of it as a tax then you can get your head around it and like it.