Interesting comments. Interesting twist in this case. US law is so fascinating sometimes.
On the issue many have raised in this topic...amateur/amateurism, the NCAA, TV money, paid players, value of education. I think the one thing I fail to see in anyone who has brought up '...NCAA makes a gagillion dollars...' is that for every big name D1 school that you feel is making a gagillion dollars is that there are something like 10 small schools that might break even or that have a successful program (say men's basketball) that pays for the rest of their sport programs (for men & women). Yeah, ESPN's college deal was a giant number at the top line, but divide that number by conferences, then by teams and then by years. How much is it now?
I also fail to see addressed how paying young men to play football and/or basketball (let's face it, the two big money sports) and how that would be squared with Title IX...paying an equal amount to an equivalent amount of young women to play sports most of us would never bother to watch.
Nor do I see addressed what was brought up early on in this thread...the cost of a full ride scholarship, not including unmeasurables like connections you can make through booster & alumini clubs to a bigger/brighter life after college ball. On the value of scholarship, a measurable, my mother was advising a client a couple years ago who's daughter, in New York state, desperately wanted to go to Michigan. Out of state tution alone was 30 grand a year. How exactly would you measure the value of the coaching and athletic training that each student-athlete recieves? Do paid players give up a portion of their "salary" to pay for coaches too? Do red shirt roster hangars get volunteer trainer services? How about their medical care? Do only big name players get a true "full ride" now? Where's the bottom in this what's paid, and not paid?
IMO the stupid BCS system totally distorted many people's perception of the NCAA making it seem like every school is big and making money.
On the issue many have raised in this topic...amateur/amateurism, the NCAA, TV money, paid players, value of education. I think the one thing I fail to see in anyone who has brought up '...NCAA makes a gagillion dollars...' is that for every big name D1 school that you feel is making a gagillion dollars is that there are something like 10 small schools that might break even or that have a successful program (say men's basketball) that pays for the rest of their sport programs (for men & women). Yeah, ESPN's college deal was a giant number at the top line, but divide that number by conferences, then by teams and then by years. How much is it now?
I also fail to see addressed how paying young men to play football and/or basketball (let's face it, the two big money sports) and how that would be squared with Title IX...paying an equal amount to an equivalent amount of young women to play sports most of us would never bother to watch.
Nor do I see addressed what was brought up early on in this thread...the cost of a full ride scholarship, not including unmeasurables like connections you can make through booster & alumini clubs to a bigger/brighter life after college ball. On the value of scholarship, a measurable, my mother was advising a client a couple years ago who's daughter, in New York state, desperately wanted to go to Michigan. Out of state tution alone was 30 grand a year. How exactly would you measure the value of the coaching and athletic training that each student-athlete recieves? Do paid players give up a portion of their "salary" to pay for coaches too? Do red shirt roster hangars get volunteer trainer services? How about their medical care? Do only big name players get a true "full ride" now? Where's the bottom in this what's paid, and not paid?
IMO the stupid BCS system totally distorted many people's perception of the NCAA making it seem like every school is big and making money.
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