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On Paying College Football Players.
Posted on 9/9/15 at 6:34 am
Posted on 9/9/15 at 6:34 am
Ok, while we wait for Saturday, here's a piece on growing up poor and paying college football players. Can't make the connection? Read it. It's the best piece of writing you'll see in a long time.
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"I can't explain what it is, but something in you, once you're convinced of your own broke-ness, believes in nothing but that. I didn't have a fraction of what real, survival-level, street poverty inflicted on people -- the real physical danger, the effects on health and cognitive development, the lifelong scars -- but I did and always will have the sense of being totally and completely alien from the concept of security, of stability, of deserving anything.
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To extend that point to its logical conclusion: Either what is going on is a vast confusion of what constitutes capital, or it is theft from every single football player that plays this stupid game to enrich a coach, athletic director, and the university. This is a system that willfully commits one of the greatest insults possible: making someone poorer, and then claiming that poverty as a necessary, virtuous and good thing.
That's a lie, and anyone who's even been broke for a short time knows it. Pay them. Pay them their goddamned money."
This post was edited on 9/9/15 at 6:42 am
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Posted on 9/9/15 at 6:45 am to Coeur du Tigre
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Pay them their goddamned money
Agreed. I'm glad that the University of Alabama is ahead of the curve in this social issue.
Posted on 9/9/15 at 7:08 am to Coeur du Tigre
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This is a system that willfully commits one of the greatest insults possible: making someone poorer, and then claiming that poverty as a necessary, virtuous and good thing.
So he claims that he grew up on a fraction of a livable amount of money. A school gave him food, housing, education, clothes, stipends, etc. and he is now poorer? Hmmm...
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I didn't have a fraction of what real, survival-level, street poverty inflicted on people
The argument shouldn't center around one individual, or many individual's personal situation. So we should give you money because you grew up poor? Why not give kids raised in poverty more money as a starting salary at any job based on this argument.
I've seen how the athletes are treated at SEC schools. Sorry, no sympathy. You want to get paid, go get a job, or spend your own resources for three years of training, nutritionists, PT, housing, etc. and then see how you fare in the draft.
Posted on 9/9/15 at 7:19 am to Coeur du Tigre
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Pay them their goddamned money
Posted on 9/9/15 at 7:56 am to Coeur du Tigre
Don't like the idea.
They are all going to want Ole Miss type of money.
They are all going to want Ole Miss type of money.
Posted on 9/9/15 at 9:55 am to Coeur du Tigre
I can't wait for the IRS to show up once the pay starts flowing. Nevermind the mountainous Title IX issues to be dealt with.
Plus, I wonder if these geniuses have thought out the long-term ramifications of what they're asking for. Once they are termed employees, then they can be terminated at any time. Fumble three times and cost your team a conference title? Here's your pink slip, son. Shooting 38% from the free throw line? Clean out your locker. You want to put a definitive dollar value on your services? Then live with all that comes with it.
Also, if I'm a major university, part of my contract with these athletes (since it is no longer a scholarship) is to charge them for al the professional services the athlete receives during is stay at State U. "For room, board, medical services, professional development (coaching), access to training facilities; the undersigned agrees to repay State University 5% of all future earnings in the professional ranks of the sport at which Undersigned competed here at State U."
Bet that might cool their jets a tad.
ETA: Above already beat me to it
Plus, I wonder if these geniuses have thought out the long-term ramifications of what they're asking for. Once they are termed employees, then they can be terminated at any time. Fumble three times and cost your team a conference title? Here's your pink slip, son. Shooting 38% from the free throw line? Clean out your locker. You want to put a definitive dollar value on your services? Then live with all that comes with it.
Also, if I'm a major university, part of my contract with these athletes (since it is no longer a scholarship) is to charge them for al the professional services the athlete receives during is stay at State U. "For room, board, medical services, professional development (coaching), access to training facilities; the undersigned agrees to repay State University 5% of all future earnings in the professional ranks of the sport at which Undersigned competed here at State U."
Bet that might cool their jets a tad.
ETA: Above already beat me to it
This post was edited on 9/9/15 at 9:56 am
Posted on 9/9/15 at 9:55 am to Coeur du Tigre
How are we supposed to determine how much to pay college football players? Outside of jersey sales, how do we know how much revenue they are responsible for generating?
The Florida Gators is a top revenue producer because it is a powerful brand supported by one of the country's largest universities with a huge fanbase and alumni network. Are the athletes owed more than they already receive in value from athletic departments? I don't know. I believe they should be paid for their likeness, but don't support anything beyond that.
The Florida Gators is a top revenue producer because it is a powerful brand supported by one of the country's largest universities with a huge fanbase and alumni network. Are the athletes owed more than they already receive in value from athletic departments? I don't know. I believe they should be paid for their likeness, but don't support anything beyond that.
This post was edited on 9/9/15 at 10:20 am
Posted on 9/9/15 at 10:51 am to Coeur du Tigre
Played college ball on scholarship. Learned fast how to get money. Classes, room and board is free, but your still broke. These kids probably do the same thing I did. You take student loans and that is around $20,000 a year (Depending on which school you go to).
These kids are not as broke as you think they are.
These kids are not as broke as you think they are.
This post was edited on 9/9/15 at 10:52 am
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