Kolek planning to go pro
The ones with fraud reporters and agendas, I don't. The ones that have written an outcome or purposely leave critical pieces of information out of their "reporting"...I don't. Fortunately not all journalists are like this. Unfortunately, too many are.
Exceptions to everything, again would you like to go through the list of players...more than happy after meetings are concluded next Tuesday.We can start with undrafted Seth Curry who went to a small school rarely on TV...how does that sound Lenny?
This silly argument ignores the fact that athletes in the revenue-producing sports contribute substantially more to their university than any other student. When 18,000 people fill the Fiserv to watch an engineering competition, or 110,000 pack the Big House to see a poetry reading, you might have a point. Until then, it's ludicrous.Also, I'm saddened to learn that all academic and need-based scholarships, grants, co-op and internship programs, etc., have been eliminated.
Those people are filling Michigan stadium whether the 4th string punter is on the team or not, same for the 3rd string LB that plays on special teams. They are going to cheer on the team with the name on the FRONT of the uniform, not on the back.
Guess what also contributes....the fact Michigan, Duke, Marquette, etc are on TV gives these guys a grand platform to showcase their wares every time out in exchange for a job, possibly millions in compensation. If it wasn't for that platform, which the school and conference provide, they wouldn't be in line to make that money.
Enormously false. Examples:Grad students at Northwestern contributed to the discovery of Lyrica. It currently brings in around $150-200M in PROFIT each year. Similar stories at many big Universities. $1.8B in profits from tech per year. That doesn't include the Billions in revenue from research grants, that come from the work of graduates and undergraduates. Some big schools bring in revenue (and spend) in the billions of dollars every year off the backs of student researchers.Revenue sports athletes are bringing in drops in a bucket compared to these other sources. And these sources of revenue bring in net profits, that in turn are used to support other university endeavors, even being siphoned off to prop up sports departments that are operating at massive losses.
No, this is enormously misleading. Crediting students for these revenues is akin to crediting team managers for NCAA tournament shares and the girl who carries Nick Saban's headset for Alabama's bowl revenueLyrica was, in fact, invented by a Northwestern professor with help from a visiting professor from Poland, not grad students. And given that the school sold away its royalty rights years ago, it seems unlikely, they school is netting a $200 million PROFIT each year.Facts matter.https://research.northwestern.edu/news/legacy-lyricahttps://dailynorthwestern.com/2016/04/10/in-focus/in-focus-as-lyrica-profits-dry-up-northwestern-seeks-another-blockbuster-drug/Likewise, research grants aren't earned by students. They're obtained by faculty and staff. At most, students serve as lab assistants, but the important work and discovery is done by the faculty.
Bruh, that thesis hasn't kept you from 5,700+ posts here.
Duke = small school rarely on TV
Are you suggesting only the starters get paid? Lol. Good luck with that. Look, this is where this all goes sideways. In recruiting these kids will be guaranteed $$$ whether they ever play or not, that’s how the scam is going to work.
And you're the judge and jury of this? You, with extreme views and an ax to grind? You, who actually believes the free press is the enemy of the people?That's rich.You're just another guy with an opinion, just like anybody else.Merry Xmas!
How is that a "scam?" Let's say Nike signs all players who go to Michigan to $2,000 deals. Eventually they sign the top players for larger deals. How is that a scam? How does it "go sideways?" I fail to understand how any of this is a problem.
For a number of reasons. Pakuni is arguing, it seems, that only the stars will be compensated....I call BS on that which create an enormous recruiting advantage for rich schools during the recruiting process. The rich will get even richer, schools will drop out because they can no longer compete and throw their hands up....that means less opportunities for kids, mostly minorities by the way.
Through the course of time most ncaa problems with schools has been around money and essentially bribing kids to play there. I fail to see how you don’t recognize this as a problem. Now, I know there are people that believe if you just do everything above board it solves the problem....like making drugs legal eliminates drug violence and illegal sales, or prostitution, or fill in the blank.....of course we know in reality that is pure BS, but people believe in unicorns. Your $2000 example will become $10k under the table because a new market will be set and human beings, who love to cheat and scam the system, will do exactly that.
Again, I don't think anyone is saying the schools aren't important or that most student-athletes (I would argue 99%) are fairly compensated. But if outside entities want to pay them for their likeness, I still haven't heard an argument against it other than "it will get abused." That's true, but I think the current system and any system will be abused so I don't think it's the strongest argument.
I agree with every word of this.
Yes. Anytime you create situations where outside entities put a ceiling on income, "the market" will work to find ways to subvert that ceiling. It's simple economics.
American taxation system where ceilings or tiers = penalties. Fortunately that system is a model of stability and honesty........
So other than it will lead to more cheating and more corruption, it is ok and not a good argument. Uhm, ok.