re: The NCAA should allow pay for play

Or a member of the Russian mob buys their jersey for 500 and points get shaved.

While most on here did not live through the 50's, some did.

Someone has still yet to explain how the “profit off their likeness” works. For instance, who gets the royalties from the sale of a #2 Alabama jersey?

- Derek Henry, one of only 2 Heisman winners in Alabama history
- Jalen Hurts, a current college player who wore that number up until last year and is one of the most high profile players in the country
- Keilan Robinson or Patrick Surtain, the two current players on the Alabama roster who wear the jersey

So who’s “likeness” is being used when I see that #2 jersey for sale in a sporting goods store? Who gets the royalties? Do they get them in perpetuity? Are we just asking kids to make deals on their own with apparel companies? If so, can the schools enforce their trademark if they think it hurts their brand?

A salary cap in the NCAA? This is dumb.

The only way pay for play could possibly work is to take the pay part away from the schools. If a kid is marketable(very few will be) they will get paid. If not they won't. Every thing is fair as far as title IX and other sports because it's out of the schools hands and all kids have the same opportunity.

It also seems to maintain amateurism as they aren't technically being paid by their team to play, but by a third party for other things.

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How about we just allow a farm system like baseball has and allow players to go to it as they wish

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"Allow" a farm system? It's already allowed, but obviously the NFL does not think it would be profitable....certainly not as profitable as the free farm system they have now with college ball.

Without going into all the detail, baseball and football just had different historical roots. Baseball really was America's pasttime a century ago, and pro baseball was considered a legitimate trade, so you had plenty of demand for professional players. Football primarily developed as a college sport, and by the time the NFL formed we already had a fan following for the college game.

I would love to see minor league football take hold and leave college football for the amateurs and real students, but that ship has sailed.

The colleges will eventually be forced to allow players to make money, and with that the college game will be destroyed. Maybe THEN we will get minor league football.

I can be on both sides of the fence on this one. I think it is tricky to allow them to get compensated for their likeness and the jersey example is perfect one. Also, this idea benefits the schools with the biggest booster pockets. They'll know how to play the game.

But I think Tebow's passionate response on this issue is dead on. The kids go into these schools with the understanding it's about the University/College. They know what they are signing up for. Call it a glorified internship because most of the athletes on that stage are vying for a bigger opportunity...the NFL, MLB, etc. But there's also the chance, as with an internship, you don't make the cut. And you live with it and find your next opportunity. I agree with Tebow, it's why I love college sports more than the pro's...because of the passion behind it and the chaos that occurs because a lesser team that plays like a 'team' can beat the odds. The pros is almost a formality...

I'm an ex-collegiate baseball player... and would I have loved to get some compensation for my time since I didn't make it to the league? Sure. But I also got free tuition, experiences, travel, gear, relationships, connections, etc. etc. Yeah, the thought you get hurt in the CFB and lose millions of dollars on a possible NFL contract is nauseating...but you could also go to college and work for most of the rest of your life paying off that same debt if your ride wasn't paid for.

Let's keep the passion, the drama, the hunger and the amateur status for college...there will always be another way to make a dollar.

Tebow's POV

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NFL create a minor league football program?

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NFL is corporate welfare. Some of the richest folks in the USA yet they put the taxpayers on the dole to pay for their stadiums. They will not create a minor league as they are too cheap to pay for it out of their own pocket.

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Players getting paid is as free market as it gets.

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Only way Ole Miss could even be relative in Football, and that lasted 2 years??

And still 0 'fer vs Missouri

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Absolutely, the schools put the players on the map because of their prestige and tradition...but it also can work to a players advantage down the road.

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That is exactly my point, and why I kind of think both sides are full of sh1t. You can't have it both ways, and you can't just do it half way without it ending in disaster with Title IX thank you gubment.

You either keep the current system, find an NCAA competitor that colleges are willing to move to that pays ALL players, or you remove college athletics as a competitive entity. Any other solution is doing nothing but paving the way for a total breakdown resulting in one of the original three options.

They do, at Bama