Power 5 to Pay Their Athletes

[whiz wit]

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/sports/nca ... rcna153852

[Oracle]

College athletics? Hardly. Professionalism has entered the 'amateur' ranks. Total unadulterated bull$#it. If everyone is getting paid, then let them pay for their own tuition, R&B. No need for scholarships anymore.

This whole thing is a giant mess. It looks like the SCOTUS will have to hear a case and carve out an exception. Otherwise, the whole system will implode. IMO.

[1/2NELSON]

College athletics? Hardly. Professionalism has entered the 'amateur' ranks. Total unadulterated bull$#it. If everyone is getting paid, then let them pay for their own tuition, R&B. No need for scholarships anymore.

This whole thing is a giant mess. It looks like the SCOTUS will have to hear a case and carve out an exception. Otherwise, the whole system will implode. IMO.

Got THAT right O, and the word MESS pretty much sums it up!

https://www.espn.com/college-sports/sto ... ay-players

and the NCAA to pay-back DAMAGES? How was the athlete on scholarship F'in "damaged?"

Advent of NIL was the opening of PANDORA'S-BOX!
Just "ironing-out" the metrics/parameters of this new proposal is mind-boggling!

Have always abhorred ATHLETES, especially those in basketball/football using the college campus as a
"minor-league" complex, and exiting in a few years!

[JAD77]

Denny used to say “9.9 is for suckers”. How quaint that sounds now. Nowadays “Full rides are for suckers” sounds more apropos.

[Sundayamqb]

College athletics? Hardly. Professionalism has entered the 'amateur' ranks.

"Has entered"?

Scholarships have made it that way for years -- even at Lehigh, where a kid gets what, a minimum of a $300K (I've lost track of tuition, room/board), plus perks for playing certain sports without having to pay tax on it?

Yes, it's worse than ever -- and I agree with your other points. It's a slippery slope.

Athlete-students, not student-athletes.

[martinsilvestri]

Well remember, free college degrees are now a human right, so it stands to reason that some kind of compensation is required for any actual exertion.

Related: ASU has apparently eliminated its athletic department's 300m debt as part of its "restructuring", unclear on what basis. https://x.com/chriskarpman/status/17940 ... d24HOVFBWA

[1/2NELSON]

Ahh,..the changing landscape of collegiate athletics! Don't like the smell-of-it, even with the logisitics yet to be determined,..as I see the NET-RESULT creating a bigger divide between the HAVES/HAVE-NOTS!

https://www.flowrestling.org/articles/1 ... settlement