Running SCOTUS thread

AKA America since it was born.

 

The NCAA had X years to propose anything remotely fair beyond, "You get some tuition, don't worry about the billion dollar TV contracts we're signing." If it truly wants to be an organization for amateurs, it can do that - Put a cap of around $250k on salaries for all employees, and spread the revenue around to member schools and athletes.

 

And they might even finish work on the east side of the stadium by then.

 

I said this on here years ago. I remember one of Jim Bouton’s Ball Four bonus chapters where he talked about baseball and free agency and how if the owners hadn’t abused the players to the point where they got beyond angry, that the system could have remained the same. Bouton wrote that had the owners doubled the league minimum, added some extra meal money and stopped a few of the worst abuses, that the players would have been more content to keep things as they are.

And I said that the NCAA really needed to learn from Bouton’s words and MLB’s example, not abuse the system and throw the “student-athletes” a few crumbs here and there. Nope, and now they’re facing obseletion.

 

clay travis is outraged.

 

Man, I hear that's rough.

 

Thanks for posting this; its the issue nicely distilled down.

Credit for Kavanaugh for putting this in the record book for history.

Full disclosure I did not go to a Power 5 school; I watch college sports but in the past 25 yrs have really disliked how the universities and their administrators (and bowl game suits and NCAA suits) have built this money-churning empire on the backs of the kids who get some nice dorm food and workout gear while putting their bodies on the line.

 

Now we know this was a good decision.

 

If athletic scholarships become income, then by default aren't all scholarships then destined to be considered income?

 

Just wondering, how much do you plan to pay the shortstop on the softball team?

 

Whatever the shortstop’s market value for their NIL is.

 

How about the FCS or DII quarterback who leads the nation in every offensive statistic?