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re: When players become official employees
Posted on 12/17/23 at 8:23 pm to AwgustaDawg
Posted on 12/17/23 at 8:23 pm to AwgustaDawg
Greed is killing the sport we all love. It’s all about rich alums reliving their past vicariously through their football teams accomplishments.
These alums will spend ridiculous sums now to buy players.
The networks want better games to sell ads.
Schools AD’s, Presidents need more money to build bigger, better facilities etc
What about the players? Once they were getting a free education, room and board. Something I did not have. It was great.
Not now, they wear flashy jewelry, drive expensive cars, some do get degrees but honestly most of the degrees are worthless.
I could go on but won’t.
No, they should not be employees but independent contractors if they want to take money and any other compensation other than their scholarship
They should be 1099’d by the university. All money should be disbursed by the school.
Players should get a Percentage of the Revenue splint evenly amongst all players.
Contract should be signed.
These alums will spend ridiculous sums now to buy players.
The networks want better games to sell ads.
Schools AD’s, Presidents need more money to build bigger, better facilities etc
What about the players? Once they were getting a free education, room and board. Something I did not have. It was great.
Not now, they wear flashy jewelry, drive expensive cars, some do get degrees but honestly most of the degrees are worthless.
I could go on but won’t.
No, they should not be employees but independent contractors if they want to take money and any other compensation other than their scholarship
They should be 1099’d by the university. All money should be disbursed by the school.
Players should get a Percentage of the Revenue splint evenly amongst all players.
Contract should be signed.
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Posted on 12/18/23 at 5:50 am to bamaoldtimer
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Greed is killing the sport we all love. It’s all about rich alums reliving their past vicariously through their football teams accomplishments.
These alums will spend ridiculous sums now to buy players.
The networks want better games to sell ads.
Schools AD’s, Presidents need more money to build bigger, better facilities etc
What about the players? Once they were getting a free education, room and board. Something I did not have. It was great.
Not now, they wear flashy jewelry, drive expensive cars, some do get degrees but honestly most of the degrees are worthless.
I could go on but won’t.
No, they should not be employees but independent contractors if they want to take money and any other compensation other than their scholarship
They should be 1099’d by the university. All money should be disbursed by the school.
Players should get a Percentage of the Revenue splint evenly amongst all players.
Contract should be signed.
1099 contractors can be subject to the same sort of restrictions and limits placed on an employee. The problem is that it'd be a pretty easy case to make using IRS standards that they would not be independent...they do not have "opportunities for profit and loss (of the contractor OR the program, they have no way to control the "amount of initiative, judgment, or foresight in open market competition with others required for the success of the claimed independent contractor" and they would have no control over "the degree of independent business organization and operation". Pretty much if the are not allowed to make decisions about the profitability of organization of THEIR business they are employees and not contractors. There is also the issue of "permanence" and an inability to pursue other independent ventures related to their "business". The IRA is pretty damned stringent about who is and who is not a business because the tax advantages of being a 1099 contractor are infinitely better than being an employee and the IRS nees its money badder'n a hawg nees slop....
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