I suppose Oscar Robertson is a broke bum who couldn't make it either right? Bill Russell, that guy must be a broke bum looking for a handout. O'Bannon's name is the main one on the lawsuit in the same way Tom Brady's name was the one on the lawsuit when the players sued the NFL during the lockout.
So because Bob Stoops said it then we should all be quiet? The amount of money made off of these athletes is incredible. Yes they are given opportunities to travel to places and receive top notch medical staffs but that is a requirement of the job they do. In order to have a successful program, you need a top notch medical staff, weight room, etc. In order to play USC, you need to travel to Southern California. So to say that they are given travel expenses and top notch medical staffs is ridiculous because in order to have a program in the first place, those are requirements, not rewards.
They are given a free education yet they are steered in certain directions when choosing a degree, have their schedules worked around football, have mandatory study halls, weight lifting sessions, practices, film study and are expected to be good students.
The scholarships they get are not nearly reflective of their true value.
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The National College Players Association and Drexel University just released a study on how much college athletes would be worth on the open market.
The conclusion: The fair market value for the average FBS football player is $137,357 per year, and the fair market value for the average men's basketball player is $289,031 per year.
Right now the average player earns just $23,204 in scholarship money.
The study is fairly simple. In the NBA, players receive 50% of all revenue, and in the NFL players receive 46.5% of all revenue.
If you used that revenue-sharing model in college sports, football and basketball players would collectively receive $6.2 billion.
Here's the key part of the study:
Findings from this study offer an indictment of the principle of amateurism used by the NCAA to enforce a system that distributes the wealth generated by big money college sport programs away from the players and redirects it to coaches, administrators, conference commissioners, bowl executives, colleges and universities, and corporate entities. College sport officials have created a system of inequity that exploits young people and brings dishonor to the academy by:
denying revenue-producing athletes the opportunity to negotiate on their own behalf
limiting their ability to transfer
restricting the compensation they receive and failing to compensate them for the use of their names, images, and likenesses
failing to provide adequate protections in the form of health benefits
placing extreme demands on their time, energies, and psyches
barring athletes from pursuing sponsorship deals
limiting athlete access to due process and fair enforcement reviews
At the top schools, the players are worth even more. Here are the 10 schools where basketball players are worth in the most:
And here are the top-10 schools where football players are worth the most:
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http://www.businessinsider.com/heres...e-worth-2013-3