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[Clutch0364]

Let’s also not act like the majority of these kids are in it for an education. They all think they will play in the league.

[Turbine]

Let’s also not act like the majority of these kids are in it for an education. They all think they will play in the league.

For sure. Understood.

That shouldn't mean they deserve more money up front.

[CrazyCajun]

For sure. Understood.

That shouldn't mean they deserve more money up front.

They deserve money because all the adults are splitting up billions while they get an empty class chair, meals and a dorm room. They get the same as as someone who gets an academic scholarship but people aren’t making billions of dollars off watching them study.

[CAJUNSby90]

They deserve money because all the adults are splitting up billions while they get an empty class chair, meals and a dorm room. They get the same as as someone who gets an academic scholarship but people aren’t making billions of dollars off watching them study.

I think the billions is a bit overstated..Is it billions in revenue or billions in profit?

[Clutch0364]

I think the billions is a bit overstated..Is it billions in revenue or billions in profit?

“The Big Ten has completed a new seven-year media rights agreement with Fox, CBS and NBC that is set to bring in more than $7 billion to one of the nation's most powerful athletic conferences.”

That’s from an article from 2022.

And that’s only 1 conference.

[CAJUNSby90]

“The Big Ten has completed a new seven-year media rights agreement with Fox, CBS and NBC that is set to bring in more than $7 billion to one of the nation's most powerful athletic conferences.”

That’s from an article from 2022.

And that’s only 1 conference.

Thats alot of cash. Now what are those schools expenses?

[Turbine]

They deserve money because all the adults are splitting up billions while they get an empty class chair, meals and a dorm room. They get the same as as someone who gets an academic scholarship but people aren’t making billions of dollars off watching them study.

You lost me.

Analogy: What Musk makes should have zero bearing on what "I" make working for him.

The academic schoraship prepaid and deserves more at an academic institution.

The athlete is paying in real time because they only work in advertising.

[Clutch0364]

Thats alot of cash. Now what are those schools expenses?

Doesn’t matter. Without those players they don’t get that deal. As I stated earlier…the ncaa was ruined as soon as they started viewing themselves as a commercial entity. The NCAA that a lot of people seem to fantasize about never existed. Now it’s just out in the open.

If the NCAA was about amateurism, it never would have been commercialized. Want to fix things. Take all games off of TV. No sponsorships. Nothing. Then you get an entity that is closer to rec sports than the nfl.

[Turbine]

Doesn’t matter. Without those players they don’t get that deal.

The deal is there regardless of where the player cards get shuffled.

Game Day receipts and donations are the only thing the shuffle affects.

[RedTails]

Doesn’t matter. Without those players they don’t get that deal. As I stated earlier…the ncaa was ruined as soon as they started viewing themselves as a commercial entity. The NCAA that a lot of people seem to fantasize about never existed. Now it’s just out in the open.

If the NCAA was about amateurism, it never would have been commercialized. Want to fix things. Take all games off of TV. No sponsorships. Nothing. Then you get an entity that is closer to rec sports than the nfl.

I'm a bit of an amateur when it comes to the history of amateur athletics, but shouldn't your ire be with the Universities of Oklahoma and Georgia suing the NCAA in the 1980s to be commercialized? Can even go back decades before that with the SEC valuing athletics over education in some early 1900s spats between the SEC and whatever conference existed before the PAC (PCC?)

Think the NCAA had its regulatory hands tied behind its back for a really long time now, and the big boys have had the keys to the pad this whole time.

[CrazyCajun]

I think the billions is a bit overstated..Is it billions in revenue or billions in profit?

5.5 billion in revenue just tv and NCAA, not counting ticket sales, merchandise concessions and donations. They certainly can afford to pay something and if the high profile kids can go get more through NIL so be it but I think if there was a baseline you wouldn’t have teams losing 20,25,30 kids to the portal every year.

[CrazyCajun]

I'm a bit of an amateur when it comes to the history of amateur athletics, but shouldn't your ire be with the Universities of Oklahoma and Georgia suing the NCAA in the 1980s to be commercialized? Can even go back decades before that with the SEC valuing athletics over education in some early 1900s spats between the SEC and whatever conference existed before the PAC (PCC?)

Think the NCAA had its regulatory hands tied behind its back for a really long time now, and the big boys have had the keys to the pad this whole time.

NCAA and their execs have no problem cashing those fat checks though