re: Does it bother you to see ESPN profit off of college players?

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Upperaltiger06
Does it bother you to see ESPN profit off of college players?
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So once again...just to be clear...you are advocating that the University of Alabama and Nick Saban, through private boosters, be able to develop a system where those third party boosters can create an organization where players who come to Alabama can legally be paid an unlimited sum of money. Right?


Nope.

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Then you obviously don't grasp the concept of "third party". That's one reason why other posters have disparaged your intelligence. Boosters are third party individuals. Currently, the NCAA expects the athletic departments to control them. You said that players should be able to make however much money they can from private individuals. Newsflash: Private individuals who funnel money to players are called boosters.

"I'm not talking about the university paying the player. I'm speaking of 3rd parties". Those were your words, correct? I could start a non-profit organization for the purposes of raising money to funnel to Alabama football players in return for autographs, car washing, or whatever else you mentioned. I could raise literally millions of dollars and pay every Alabama football player six-figure stipends for autographs, raking leaves, baby sitting...whatever. Maybe even a cool million to McCarron, Yeldon, and a select few others. Minimum of $100,000 if you are on scholarship, and go up from there. And it would all be private, outside the control of the university. Nick Saban could encourage that and use that as a recruiting tool on the recruiting trail, because the university wouldn't be paying the players everything. All would be perfectly legal in the system you advocated, because the University would have no role in raising or spending the money.

"What if he was an employee being paid a $100 hour to wash cars? Can the NCAA punish him for that?" Also your words. You're obviously too young to remember Rhett Bomar, and that was only 7 years ago. What are you, about 22?