Is anyone else following the saga of NCAA?

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It appears that all the major conferences in the NCAA have signed onto the settlement deal allowing all college athletes to get paid for playing, in addition to getting athletic scholarships, the NIL payments, and very likely the right to collectively bargain. Looks like all of the private equity firms and sports agents are licking their chops and getting ready for the feast. By the 2025 season there will be no significant differences between college athletes and pro athletes in the NFL, NBA, MLB, etc.

I have always preferred college sports to pro sports. Now there will no longer be a choice.
 
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With all the revenue generated by big time college sports — primarily football and to a lesser extent basketball — it seems just to me that the athletes involved should be compensated. Not sure it needs to be straight up cash or salaries. Might be trust funds accessible later in life to provide a livable income. Insurance for compensation for career ending injuries. Or for dementia caused by concussions.

How to handle the revenue generated by broadcasting, cable and streaming in an equitable manner makes sense. Doesn't seem right that coaches, athletic administrators, college presidents, networks, etc., are highly compensated for ther revenue generating efforts of college football and basketball players while leaving the athletes themselves out of the equation.

There are something like 40 distinct Division I competitive sports. Doesn't make sense that you would compensate all equally, but, I do think it a good thing that now, say, college swimmers are allowed to make money coaching kids.

We used to have this discussion about amateurs and the Olympics.
 
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Yes I am. My step son is being recruited by several schools as a running back. He's only a jr in high school. By the time he finishes his senior yr they'll be so loosey goosey with the money a scholarship should be easy. I don't need him to get paid. I just need his mom and I NOT to pay lol.
 
Personally believe the scholarship, free training and opportunity should be enough. Easy to see most of the better athletes going to schools that can pay more, which may make it much worse than an already unbalanced system. If they want paid, they should just create another league (semi-pro) skipping the college farce.
 
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Personally believe the scholarship, free training and opportunity should be enough. Easy to see most of the better athletes going to schools that can pay more, which may make it much worse than an already unbalanced system. If they want paid, they should just create another league (semi-pro) skipping the college farce.
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I agree. With the cost of tuition being as high as it is today, an athletic scholarship, plus other goodies that may come with it, is a pretty good deal. And if they are good enough to be drafted by a pro team, that is where the big payoff is. What is going to happen is that the private equity firms who will essentially take over control of the college sports teams will be the ones who will really make out like bandits. That's what they are in business to do. Everything To Know about the NCAA's Historic Week
 
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I can remember when very few professional sports players didn't have to work in the off season to feed their families. Players played for the love of the game, not an astronomical amount of money. My, how times have changed, and not for the better.
 
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I can remember when very few professional sports players didn't have to work in the off season to feed their families. Players played for the love of the game, not an astronomical amount of money. My, how times have changed, and not for the better.
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I had a cousin who was a catcher for the St.L. Cardinals back in the 1940s-50s (and several other teams later). He had to work at menial jobs in the off season. He had no marketable skills beyond catching baseballs and that was long before the mega-salaries of players today.
 
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Most of a coaches job in college was to recruit the best possible players. This typically started out when they were pretty young in high school, but now there probably won't be any recruiting or even campus visits. There will be a web page where players list their starting bid money requirements along with buyouts, injury clauses, etc. just like the pros have. Whatever school throws out the most money is likely where the kid will go to college.
 
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I can only hope this is the beginning of the end of this farcical racket and the "professional" racket beyond. It is about time that we recognized that these "student athletes" were generally no more students than the janitors or coaches but merely felons in training protected by their universities and hopefuls for the "professional" thug league monopolies.
 
The powerhouse schools won't feel a thing, superstar wannabe's will be feted and whore out their services, lawyers and private equity firms will reap a windfall while smaller schools will see needed funds from other programs, maybe scholarships for academics and your hardworking students who play for the love of the game will be left holding their jock.
 
Another example of money ruining sports. I knew when the NIL issue came around (name, image & likeness) and these kids started getting endorsement money it would eventually escalate to pay for play.

I've always liked college level sports better than pro; I though it fine a kid that could play a sport could get a scholarship to help him through if he or his family couldn't afford a top tier school otherwise. After all, their primary goal should be an education, not a direct path to a Celtics or Lakers uniform. What happens to most of these kids who go pro for a few years with no degree to fall back on in the real world when they blow out a knee or just can't make the cuts. Even their 7 and 8 figure salaries don't last, too many blow the wad first chance they get and they become entitled gangsta ruffians.

I'll probably not watch another college game, and I hope the plan backfires on collegiate sports.
 
I'm glad the players are finally getting what they deserve. The NCAA has profited outrageously for years off the players blood sweat and tears.

College sports and football in particular are NOT about education, it's about dollars. The NCAA has made their bed and now they're lying in it.
 
I think it's a BIG mistake. I don't watch NFL but did watch College. Not any more...Just follow the money...stuff will probably get crooked somehow. Like betting on games. I played A and AA baseball many years ago.Mid 60s... I quit.. There was no money travel, by bus cheap motels, eating at fast food joints all the time and pretty poor treatment. Heck I made more money shooting pool, working on the water(commercial fishing) and guiding hunters...each. I even had a little 30 acre farm I made a couple grand on every year. And the avg pay in the bigs was only maybe 30 grand
 
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