re: According to Wolken, among the PAC-12 players’ demands is 50% of the league’s revenue

Let them wish in one hand and shite in the other then tell us which one fills up first

https://www.theplayerstribune.com/en-us/articles/pac-12-players-covid-19-statement-football-season

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Pac-12 Football Unity Demands

To Protect and Benefit Both Scholarship and Walk-On Athletes


I. Health & Safety Protections
COVID-19 Protections
Allow option not to play during the pandemic without losing athletics eligibility or spot on our team’s roster.
Prohibit/void COVID-19 agreements that waive liability.
Mandatory Safety Standards, Including COVID-19 Measures
Player-approved health and safety standards enforced by a third party selected by players to address COVID-19, as well as serious injury, abuse and death.
II. Protect All Sports
Preserve All Existing Sports by Eliminating Excessive Expenditures
Larry Scott, administrators, and coaches to voluntarily and drastically reduce excessive pay.
End performance/academic bonuses.
End lavish facility expenditures and use some endowment funds to preserve all sports.*
*As an example, Stanford University should reinstate all sports discontinued by tapping into their $27.7 billion endowment.

III. End Racial Injustice in College Sports and Society
Form a permanent civic-engagement task force made up of our leaders, experts of our choice, and university and conference administrators to address outstanding issues such as racial injustice in college sports and in society.
In partnership with the Pac-12, 2% of conference revenue would be directed by players to support financial aid for low-income Black students, community initiatives, and development programs for college athletes on each campus.
Form annual Pac-12 Black College Athlete Summit with guaranteed representation of at least three athletes of our choice from every school.
IV. Economic Freedom and Equity
Guaranteed Medical Expense Coverage
Medical insurance selected by players for sports-related medical conditions, including COVID- 19 illness, to cover six years after college athletics eligibility ends.
Name, Image, and Likeness Rights & Representation
The freedom to secure representation, receive basic necessities from any third party, and earn money for use of our name, image, and likeness rights.
Fair Market Pay, Rights, & Freedoms
Distribute 50% of each sport’s total conference revenue evenly among athletes in their respective sports.
Six-year athletic scholarships to foster undergraduate and graduate degree completion.
Elimination of all policies and practices restricting or deterring our freedom of speech, our ability to fully participate in charitable work, and our freedom to participate in campus activities outside of mandatory athletics participation.
Ability of players of all sports to transfer one time without punishment, and additionally in cases of abuse or serious negligence.
Ability to complete eligibility after participating in a pro draft if player goes undrafted and foregoes professional participation within seven days of the draft.
Due process rights

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There goes the pac 12, maybe we add Colorado and USC to the sec and move on.

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Im pretty sure the people who hire and fire head coaches have more clout than the head coaches.

I'm pretty sure that the boosters and alumni who provide the funding have more clout than the players.

I just wanted to throw out a little reason and sunshine on this thread for you.

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You conveniently left out TV money and the large Corp Sponsors that contribute even more than the boosters and Alums

Tell the Boosters to keep their donations, FB & MBB can survive on TV, merch, Tickets, and other income associated with the games being played, those booster donations are often used to fill in for shortcomings in the Non Revenue Sports, the Revenue Sports don't HAVE TO HAVE booster money, it is a plus but not a need

This isn't the 1950s & 60s, booster & alumni Money is no longer the driving force behind Economic Decisions in a P5 Athl Dept

TV money & the free market are the main Financial forces that drive Decisions in an Athl Dept, that makes a lot of folks mad because the "good ol boys" no longer have the say so they once had, the "good ol boys" only have power when the time comes to pay for fired coaches buyouts

TV Execs aren't gonna lose profitable programming over something as silly as NOT paying the players

In fact, the only group that doesn't want the Players to get paid are the people that post on this msg Board

I know all the woke people will not agree with me on this.

But, the fact of the matter is. A pretty significant percentage of these players couldn't even get admitted to many of these universities, if not for football.

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What would be funny is if they got their 50% and then the Universities cut the salaries of all their Professors who indoctrinated these kids to begin with. Now THAT would really be fun to watch

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University operations is separate from the Athl Dept and their operating expenses

They are free to cut the dead weight money losing non Revenue Sports

I'm curious that with all the tough talking "teach em about the real world" talk on this msg board, I have yet to read one poster demand that the money losing sports learn something about the real world and earn their own way and get to Financial break-even

Kinda amazing that no one asks the Money losing sports to become more successful and get to break-even

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And better family care (both for parents of players and for the players with children)

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You knock up someone, you pay the bill, that was the first topic my sex talk had.

Under what pretense should parents get anything beyond a free education for their child?

"Money losing sports ....earn their own way"? That means all women's sports get cut off from financial support. The Feds have already ruled on that, so why waste time here & elsewhere beating a dead horse? Paying for health coverage for players' parents is also moronic. No business offers health coverage for an employee's parents, let alone free coverage. Are you by any chance from Portland or Seattle? Just curious as this sounds just like some of those cities' city council proposals.

It's an amateur sport, I see no issue with a stipend to cover living expenses as other scholarships do that as well.

News flash, most Universities, even many big ones lose money on sports. Even the ones that don't can account in a way as to make them lose money as well.

It's an amateur sport, if they want to get paid, find another way to get to the NFL.

Many in baseball have decided college is better than minor leagues.