Exactly what I meant. A car Dealer, Golf resort owner...etc. I put your face on a billboard and pay you a King's ransom. The recruits will be lining up for their "endorsements".
Cali allows NCAA athletes to be paid
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Exactly what I meant. A car Dealer, Golf resort owner...etc. I put your face on a billboard and pay you a King's ransom. The recruits will be lining up for their "endorsements".
I think a helpful way to think about each college sport is that it is a professional league that tries to maintain parity by using a salary cap—each team can give out only X scholarships and no more. In addition, the league fears boosters and so adds a restriction on the players: no outside income such as shoe endorsements.
Seen in that light, we see that NFL or NBA teams in theory (and in practice) are vulnerable to boosters, too, because the NFL and NBA allow shoe endorsements. Nike might say to the Greek Freak: if you switch to a major-market city’s team, we’ll give you a $10 million bonus. (Nike doesn’t even need to say it; everyone knows big-market guys can get more endorsements.)
So, we can assume/pretend that the court’s and legislature’s decision is based on: if the pro teams don’t even restrict their labor force this much, why do the colleges think they deserve an above-and-beyond exercise of monopoly power? (To be precise, monopsony power)
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At one extreme, we can institute actual chattel slavery to enforce sports parity. At the other extreme we can institute a pure free market of no restrictions whatsoever, not even a salary cap.
Everyone would say: no, sports parity is not worth actual chattel slavery. So, we see that the problem is a line drawing problem on where to draw the line.
The question is just how much the courts and legislatures should give a rat’s ass about sports parity in colleges. Note that sports parity is not a fundamental goal enshrined in the Declaration of Independence.
Everyone would say: no, sports parity is not worth actual chattel slavery. So, we see that the problem is a line drawing problem on where to draw the line.
The question is just how much the courts and legislatures should give a rat’s ass about sports parity in colleges. Note that sports parity is not a fundamental goal enshrined in the Declaration of Independence.
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There is no National Collegiate Engineering Association (NCEA) that prevents an MIT student from having her own line of Nike engineering shoes, just to protect Rutgers from lack of engineering parity.
Yes, of course I understand that sports with parity probably sell better, but why should the courts and legislatures favor the schools’ (including public schools’) sports-business ambitions at all?
Yes, of course I understand that sports with parity probably sell better, but why should the courts and legislatures favor the schools’ (including public schools’) sports-business ambitions at all?
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i think we should all recognize that salary caps are detrimental to the earning power of players and that they serve to enrich owners. applying that logic to college sports shows us that, similarly, the NCAA is being enriched at the expense of the student athletes.
i think any talk of parity is ultimately fruitless. there's no way to make things equal. there's only one cael. whatever school employs him will have an advantage.
i think any talk of parity is ultimately fruitless. there's no way to make things equal. there's only one cael. whatever school employs him will have an advantage.
i think this could be proven false by looking at the top grossing sports leagues.
nfl: hard cap BUT one tom brady, peyton manning, and ben rothlisberger have been in the super bowl almost every year for the past 15
mlb: no cap, but luxury tax above a certain threshold
nba: soft cap, but superstars run the league
english premier league: no cap
nhl: hard cap
la liga: no cap
bundesliga: no cap
serie a: no cap
uefa champions league: no cap
formula 1: no cap
the only league here that consistently sees teams go from bad to good without just having a ton of money and convincing the best players to come there, is the NHL
Are people under the impression that we don't already have a system where the vast majority of high-profile recruits go to the same handful of schools year after year?
Are we sure this really makes things any worse than they already are?
Are we sure this really makes things any worse than they already are?
Agree with this take. T Boone Pickens was a huge fan of OK State's golf team. If he declared that he was willing to pay $100,000 for every OK State golfer "likeness" to use in a version of Cowboy Golden Tee video game he created, what would happen to the competitiveness of collegiate golf (if anyone cares)?
And note that an individual’s life, liberty, and pursuit of happiness are enshrined in the Declaration of Independence.
Coming to Pennsylvania??
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https://www.wpxi.com/news/top-stori...-allow-college-athletes-to-get-paid/992311133
A massive difference between an NFL, NBA, NHL salary cap and an NCAA mandated version is the first 3 are negotiated and agreed upon to the mutual benefit of each side. The only negotiation the NCAA participates in is with the networks.
poor kid who doesn't deliver will have repercussions! someone mentioned it earlier - the bad news with getting $$ up front... lots of times there are strings attached and one didn't know it... Bad enough we hear the story about the talented kid with tough luck and no education...
Another adverse effect of paying college athletes will be that high school sports that feed it will get weirder.
In other words, the recruiting, marketing, and all-star team building that we see today will become more extreme, and in my estimation, less healthy.
In other words, the recruiting, marketing, and all-star team building that we see today will become more extreme, and in my estimation, less healthy.
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