FC: NPR's 'The 1A' tackles the new 'NIL' reality of college sports....

[anon_xdc8rmuek44eq]

I really like Joshua Jackson and his show The 1A - he gets a lot of great guests and tries to present both sides of an argument or perspective. So, I was pretty excited to hear he and his guest panel talk about how the NCAA allowing athletes to profit from their name, image, and likeness (NIL) would impact college athletics. It's an interesting listen, and takes a pretty unexpected turn (for me anyway) at about the 18:00 minute mark. They have a few calls from former NCAA scholarship athletes and one mentions how his university used his Pell Grant to subsidize what was supposed to be his *full scholarship* instead of allowing him to use it for other needs so they could provide scholarships to other athletes. Former college basketball player Luke Bonner had an interesting argument about the value of a college degree noting that as a scholarship athlete, he was not able to participate in study abroad and accept internships, nor was he able to miss practice, workouts, winter conditioning, etc. so he could focus on his school work and thus, the academic value of his education is not the same as it is for other students.

Anyway, I think they hit on some good points, but again, there is an element to this I wasn't expecting. Will provide a link to the quote that caught me off guard below the link to the show. Thoughts?

The guests are:

Andy Schwarz Antitrust economist, OSKR consulting firm; co-founder, The Historical Basketball League; @andyhre

Tyler Tynes Staff writer, The Ringer; @TylerRickyTynes

Luke Bonner Former college and professional basketball player; co-founder, College Athletes Players Association; @LukeyBonner

Link to show: https://the1a.org/shows/2019-10-31/changing-the-game-ncaa-opens-the-door-for-athletes-to-profit

 

[interrobang]

NPR, the bastion of sports experts

 

[anon_xdc8rmuek44eq]

NPR, the bastion of sports experts

Certainly not, and I think they could have done a hell of a lot better with their panel on this, but would you rather listen to Ryen Russillo? I can link what he said on his show if you prefer.

 

[BrewLion]

NPR, the bastion of sports experts

Not enough "booyas" and eye catching crawler graphics, amiright?

 

[Tweedbear]

I like the comment that practice etc kept him from studying abroad therefore he did not have the full experience.
Working to pay house Bill tuition etc prevented me from studying abroad but I made the most of it and had a wonderful college experience.

 

[kgilbert78]

"plantations". Ugh. They have no idea. What it is, is an apprenticeship type situation. Or as they used to say about grad school "sure, I do all the work and my boss gets the Nobel Prize--but I get a professorship at Cal Tech"....

One reason I avoid the NBA (and hear this from others at the Y this morning) is that the players have a lot less in the way of training, coaching and fundamentals and team work than they used to--which they used to get in college or they did not play.

 

[kgilbert78]

I like the comment that practice etc kept him from studying abroad therefore he did not have the full experience.
Working to pay house Bill tuition etc prevented me from studying abroad but I made the most of it and had a wonderful college experience.

I managed to figure it out (Cologne, 1978)--and my dad was out of work for two years while I was in school. So it's possible. Just tougher. And I had to eat a lot of dorm food. Mind you, this was in the late 1970s when it was far easier to raise the cash for a year of school. My tuition at State freshman year was $1005. For the year. And my financial aid counted toward my tuition and room and board in Cologne they way PSU had it set up--excepting the work study program, as would be expected.

 

[MtNittany]

NPR, the bastion of sports experts

Why do taxpayers fund npr again? If their content is any good, why can't they find a way to monetize it w/out taxpayer support? If not, then...

 

[anon_xdc8rmuek44eq]

Why do taxpayers fund npr again? If their content is any good, why can't they find a way to monetize it w/out taxpayer support? If not, then...

Only about 16% of their total revenue is from federal, state, and local government funding and CPB grants. The rest is from member station fees, university and corporate underwriting, membership drives, grants from companies or foundations, and their endowment, which is about $260mm.

 

[Big 0]

I managed to figure it out (Cologne, 1978)--and my dad was out of work for two years while I was in school. So it's possible. Just tougher. And I had to eat a lot of dorm food. Mind you, this was in the late 1970s when it was far easier to raise the cash for a year of school. My tuition at State freshman year was $1005. For the year. And my financial aid counted toward my tuition and room and board in Cologne they way PSU had it set up--excepting the work study program, as would be expected.

My tuition was IIRC about $1440 per year as an out of stater. My parents paid my tuition all 4 years, but starting my junior year I paid my own room and board because I moved into an apartment with 3 roommates (Briarwood junior year and Imperial Towers senior year). This was primarily because I had one sibling attending Vanderbilt and another in medical school, so my parents didn’t have the money. Since I had worked in the summers and my siblings had not I had accumulated more cash in the bank. My old school parents told me since my siblings were girls and I was a guy, the girls got supported and I didn’t because males were expected to make their own way in tough financial times.

I paid for over half of my professional school tuition and all room and board for 4 years myself. Took my $12k in savings, the additional summer job income during undergraduate and professional school, and a $5k student loan to get through. Fortunately my professional school tuition was only about $2k per year and was the cheapest in the state at the time.