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Looks like Northwestern will vote against unionizing
Posted on 4/14/14 at 6:15 pm
Posted on 4/14/14 at 6:15 pm
Regardless of how you feel about the issue, we can all agree on one thing: this was never gonna have a clean, pretty ending:
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I don't think there's any debating that the NCAA is a mess...just not sure if unionization is the right way to solve that. What do y'all think?
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I don't think there's any debating that the NCAA is a mess...just not sure if unionization is the right way to solve that. What do y'all think?
This post was edited on 4/14/14 at 6:17 pm
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Posted on 4/14/14 at 6:18 pm to GeauxDave
I think if college football starts salary-ing its players, I'm done with it.
Posted on 4/14/14 at 6:21 pm to wmr
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I think if college football starts salary-ing its players, I'm done with it.
+1
Posted on 4/14/14 at 6:51 pm to wmr
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I think if college football starts salary-ing its players, I'm done with it.
I would hate it, but I would go down with the ship. I love football too much to lie to myself and say I could be done with it.
Posted on 4/14/14 at 7:44 pm to GooseSix
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I think if college football starts salary-ing its players, I'm done with it. +1
Posted on 4/14/14 at 7:47 pm to stat19
The problem is whatever you pay the heisman winner, you've gotta pay the 4th string women's swimmer at Directional State Tech.
Posted on 4/14/14 at 7:48 pm to poochie
Which is why it won't happen
Higher stipends maybe but not flat out salary
Higher stipends maybe but not flat out salary
Posted on 4/14/14 at 7:50 pm to GeauxDave
I kinda like the current system of paying players under the table
Posted on 4/14/14 at 8:13 pm to The_Joker
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would hate it, but I would go down with the ship. I love football too much to lie to myself and say I could be done with it.
Same here. Would not have the same interest, but would still watch. Would maybe start following the NFL more.
It would make it even harder for an Ole Miss or someone like that to compete with big boys. Much less a team like Tulane or ULL.
Posted on 4/14/14 at 8:54 pm to poochie
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The problem is whatever you pay the heisman winner, you've gotta pay the 4th string women's swimmer at Directional State Tech.
this. and it's absolutely incredible how many people are too shortsighted (or stupid) to realize this. lots of hate on the NCAA but no one, I mean NOONE seems to offer an alternative. the top 25 or so programs would be fine with giving athletes minor stripends but the vast majority would drown. the clowns wanting to "share" the vast revunues with the athletes have no idea the ramifications of doing so. it would hurt the majority of kids playing sports in college. why? just about every sport but football and basketball would be relegated to club sport status. there simply isn't enough money to do this. I hope they do something like a stripend but i'm afraid minor sports are gonna be things of the past. losing golf, tennis, swimming, gymnastics, equestrian and maybe track will really be sad.
Posted on 4/14/14 at 11:44 pm to GeauxDave
Let them unionize.
Northwestern fofeits every game that a professional plays in (which will be zero).
It sounds fitting for a kid to voluntarily make himself ineligible.
Herschel Walker found an agent after his junior year. When he changed his mind and wanted to return to college, he was SOL. Just like these kids who will most likely have played their last snap of highly competitive football.
Northwestern fofeits every game that a professional plays in (which will be zero).
It sounds fitting for a kid to voluntarily make himself ineligible.
Herschel Walker found an agent after his junior year. When he changed his mind and wanted to return to college, he was SOL. Just like these kids who will most likely have played their last snap of highly competitive football.
Posted on 4/14/14 at 11:47 pm to LSU GrandDad
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I hope they do something like a stripend but i'm afraid minor sports are gonna be things of the past. losing golf, tennis, swimming, gymnastics, equestrian and maybe track will really be sad.
Which is why there is no easy answers. Paying the players a stipend will result in most minor sports going to the wayside. And that is what seems to get lost in the arguments for and against some sort of compensation for college athletes. The closest thing to an answer may very well be an Olympic type model... tweeked to meet the obvious challenges that this issue brings.
Posted on 4/14/14 at 11:52 pm to whiskeyjohn
The big 5 conferences will break away from the ncaa.
It is inevitable.
Once they break away, cost of attendance scholarships will be awarded. It is what the players should be getting anyway, but half of the ncaa can't afford.
It is inevitable.
Once they break away, cost of attendance scholarships will be awarded. It is what the players should be getting anyway, but half of the ncaa can't afford.
Posted on 4/15/14 at 12:10 am to whiskeyjohn
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Paying the players a stipend will result in most minor sports going to the wayside.
Not on the men's side. 100 football and basketball scholarships insure that there will be 100 women athletes on scholarship. Women's basketball, gymnastics, softball, track, volleyball...all would be safe.
Posted on 4/15/14 at 12:12 am to BamaGradinTn
Not for half of the schools already losing money in their athletics departments. They will shut down football and the 85 women's scholarships tied to it.
Posted on 4/15/14 at 12:20 am to GeauxDave
I don't care if we pay the players or not, I'll still watch.
Posted on 4/15/14 at 3:28 am to Crimson G
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I don't care if we pay the players or not, I'll still watch.
Bama already pays their players so what difference does it make.
Posted on 4/15/14 at 6:11 am to Crimson G
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I don't care if we pay the players or not, I'll still watch.
Posted on 4/15/14 at 9:31 am to SpartyGator
I am kinda meh either way. I wouldn't mind watching da U implode though. FSU would struggle to keep up as well.
Posted on 4/15/14 at 10:17 am to bigDgator
That senior put it best: it's not worth the risk for any of these players as they will get all the flak & get nothing in return. By the time any decision is reached, all those players will be long gone from college football. And do not kid yourself: Those rich N.western alumni, right or wrong, will take a long look at a potential employee who voted to unionize.
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