re: What problem does paying players solve?

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It’s a school. No other group on scholarship has as low an academic profile as football and basketball players. I guess being able to attend Michigan after earning a C average in HS taking the easiest classes and getting a 18 on the ACT comes with some additional restrictions.

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The school chooses to do this BECAUSE they make money off these athletes. That’s not the fault of the athlete. If these big boy schools didn’t lower the standard, these players would end up at lower standard schools who would then make the money because people want to see the best athletes play.


There’s a reason why the NFL and Major League Baseball is popular and the XFL failed and minor league baseball has to beg people to come to games

I support the profit off your likeness model but the compromise is football players now have to pay tuition, room and board, athletic facilities fees, marketing fees. Those things aren’t worth anything apparently so that shouldn’t be too hard.

Y’all are some whiny bitches. Can’t you accept some people will get more in life than you,just as you get more in life than some?

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What problem does paying players solve?

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Well, you see, when someone wants something in a capitalist society they have the power to pay someone for that good or service. So if the problem is “I need a recognizable spokesperson for my business” or “I want my team to be better and I believe high school player x can help” then paying a player can solve those types of problems.

Seeing as we are the fans that create the profits of college football id say we’re entitled to an opinion it’s not that I don’t want these kids to have. But they want to destroy the competitive balance to get it. That’s a deal breaker.

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They already aren’t treated like any other student. They get academic, nutritional, medical, care/help far beyond that of other students on scholarship. You want them treated like other scholarship students? Of course not, and they don’t want that either.

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And for a lot of college athletes, this is enough. But do you not have an issue with the fact that a university and brand can make millions in jersey sales for a particular player and the player gets nothing? The player is the one creating the value, why shouldn’t they be compensated?

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And for a lot of college athletes, this is enough. But do you not have an issue with the fact that a university and brand can make millions in jersey sales for a particular player and the player gets nothing?

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They don’t get nothing. They get all I listed and more. You increase pay for employees (and that is what they are) to either retain them or when you have problems filling positions. CFB has neither problem.

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No, you provide bonuses to employees who outperform and outproduce their colleagues. Same concept.

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Bonuses are to incentivize people to produce more in the future. It’s the tease. No one cares what you did for them, only what you can do for them.

And if you have people beating down your door to take the job without bonuses (and that’s the case here) then you don’t offer them at all.

Just want to be sure we are all aware that 1. Athletes never have been and never will be classified as employees by universities or the NCAA and 2. these bills aren’t seeking to make athletes employees nor are they proposing that universities pay players

Actually there have been a few stories about athletes going hungry, but that isn’t the point.

This is a billion dollar industry and to not pay the kids/allow them to profit off their skills is asinine.

In any other case, they can profit. The other post about the piano player, a kid who is a math wiz can go work for some company putting his skills to work and not void his scholarship.

What is your argument for keeping them unpaid? Just bc that’s the way it is why change it?