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Should College Athletes Be Paid a Salary?

Should College Athletes Be Paid a Salary? (multiple choice)

  • Yes

    Votes: 11 57.9%
  • No

    Votes: 5 26.3%
  • They should be able to work

    Votes: 4 21.1%
  • They should be able to market their likeness/autographs

    Votes: 6 31.6%
  • Boosters should be allowed to pay them

    Votes: 2 10.5%
  • Other

    Votes: 1 5.3%

  • Total voters
    19
Have you seen the profits of the schools and NCAA? They can afford to compensate a little more for the people that bring in that revenue. LSU alone made almost 70 million in revenue in the 2009-2010 season. How much did the people who got them that get? None.

Revenue is not profit...
 
Have you seen the profits of the schools and NCAA? They can afford to compensate a little more for the people that bring in that revenue. LSU alone made almost 70 million in revenue in the 2009-2010 season. How much did the people who got them that get? None.

That money goes to their general scholarship fund, by and large. It's not like the school president rolls around butt-naked in an office full of hundred dollar bills.
 
I'll agree Urban does have some discipline concerns

Yeah...some...

He reminds me of Tressel. He'll recruit anyone. When the Hernandez murder news broke, the first thing I thought, other than "the hell was Kraft thinkin with him", is that "yup, typical Urban recruit".
 
That money goes to their general scholarship fund, by and large. It's not like the school president rolls around butt-naked in an office full of hundred dollar bills.

How do you know? Do you work at the NSA?
 
Yeah...some...

He reminds me of Tressel. He'll recruit anyone. When the Hernandez murder news broke, the first thing I thought, other than "the hell was Kraft thinkin with him", is that "yup, typical Urban recruit".

Well, look at it this way, if tOSU meets UA for the BCS title and loses, he'll need to spend more time with his family again...
 
I was listening to ESPN radio today and heard something I didn't know about college athletes. They are not able to be employed, not even part time, by anyone while school is in session including during spring break. How are these kids supposed to make any money to support themselves? Think if a poor kid with a single mother who is barely paying the electric bill sends her son off to school. The kid gets room, food, and an education. And that's it. No entertainment, nothing. Also, college athletes cannot make any money off of their likeness, autographs, etc. So, should college athletes be paid a salary, be able to work, be able to make money off of their likeness/autographs, or a combo of some of those?
This is something I've had a problem with forever. I don't think that they should be paid a salary. However, I think they should be given a stipend/allowance and they should have a fund set aside for them when they graduate. Colleges make way too much money off of these kids for them to not get any of it or a meaningful portion of it. It's absurd.
 
Well, look at it this way, if tOSU meets UA for the BCS title and loses, he'll need to spend more time with his family again...

Ohio State's schedule last year was a cream puff schedule, as was Notre Dame's (although not by as much). Alabama would've bitchslapped Ohio State, had they been eligible. Of course, I don't think it would've mattered. I wouldn't bet money that the BCS would've put Ohio State at 2. They may have kept Alabama there, below Notre Dame, despite the one loss.
 
I never said in one year.

Have you seen the profits of the schools and NCAA? They can afford to compensate a little more for the people that bring in that revenue. LSU alone made almost 70 million in revenue in the 2009-2010 season. How much did the people who got them that get? None.

Really? The above began this back and forth...
 
I was listening to ESPN radio today and heard something I didn't know about college athletes. They are not able to be employed, not even part time, by anyone while school is in session including during spring break. How are these kids supposed to make any money to support themselves? Think if a poor kid with a single mother who is barely paying the electric bill sends her son off to school. The kid gets room, food, and an education. And that's it. No entertainment, nothing. Also, college athletes cannot make any money off of their likeness, autographs, etc. So, should college athletes be paid a salary, be able to work, be able to make money off of their likeness/autographs, or a combo of some of those?

they generally get a stipend for daily living expenses, have a generous meal plan through the school, and have their housing needs provided for. Not to mention their education
 
I was listening to ESPN radio today and heard something I didn't know about college athletes. They are not able to be employed, not even part time, by anyone while school is in session including during spring break. How are these kids supposed to make any money to support themselves? Think if a poor kid with a single mother who is barely paying the electric bill sends her son off to school. The kid gets room, food, and an education. And that's it. No entertainment, nothing. Also, college athletes cannot make any money off of their likeness, autographs, etc. So, should college athletes be paid a salary, be able to work, be able to make money off of their likeness/autographs, or a combo of some of those?

I would prefer they just became students. Maybe make it club sports and not associated with education.
 
Most of you don't seem to understand how scholarships work in NCAA sports.

Programs only have a specific amount of scholarships to give and, unless you're a starting QB or mens PG for a championship caliber team, most end up with a very small partial scholarship while others get nothing at all. Posters talking about full rides through Notre Dame or Duke are kidding themselves.

With that said, I think scholarships are a bad idea. As someone noted earlier, they are supposed to be students first. Besides, men's football and basketball players would end up being given substantially less than basically all female athletes which pretty much defeats the "pay those who are bringing in the revenue!" argument.

Personally, I think the better route is to ease restrictions on working and stop with such severe penalties. You might as well take the money if you're a marketable D-I athlete.
 
I agree with those who say we should decouple education from sports (or something like that).

College sports has become big business. That shouldn't have happened. Intramural sports between dorms or frats/sororities? fine. This big money thing that college football and basketball has become? Gross.

I sympathize with those who can only go to college because of sports scholarships. But if we're going to have those, then education should be the number one priority. Too many athletes leave - and even graduate - without getting the education.

Redo it all. Get the money out of it.

Unfortunately, given human nature, I doubt that will happen.
 
I agree with those who say we should decouple education from sports (or something like that).

College sports has become big business. That shouldn't have happened. Intramural sports between dorms or frats/sororities? fine. This big money thing that college football and basketball has become? Gross.

I sympathize with those who can only go to college because of sports scholarships. But if we're going to have those, then education should be the number one priority. Too many athletes leave - and even graduate - without getting the education.

Redo it all. Get the money out of it.

Unfortunately, given human nature, I doubt that will happen.

Most schools have one, maybe two, sports that end up supporting all others. Title IX almost made it a necessity to milk those sports that do make a profit and thus, have them generate even more revenue to keep up with the rising cost of higher education...
 
Ohio State's schedule last year was a cream puff schedule, as was Notre Dame's (although not by as much). Alabama would've bitchslapped Ohio State, had they been eligible. Of course, I don't think it would've mattered. I wouldn't bet money that the BCS would've put Ohio State at 2. They may have kept Alabama there, below Notre Dame, despite the one loss.

Good evening, Gipper. :2wave:

Yep, Ohio State was 12-0 last year against such "creampuffs" as Penn State, Illinois, Wisconsin, Michigan, Nebraska, Purdue, Miami, Michigan State, and four other great teams...even though they were ineligible to play in a Bowl game, due to the suspension.

Those of us who live in Ohio were very proud of the grit they showed all year! So there! :blah: :mrgreen:
 
Good evening, Gipper. :2wave:

Yep, Ohio State was 12-0 last year against such "creampuffs" as Penn State, Illinois, Wisconsin, Michigan, Nebraska, Purdue, Miami, Michigan State, and four other great teams...even though they were ineligible to play in a Bowl game, due to the suspension.

Those of us who live in Ohio were very proud of the grit they showed all year! So there! :blah: :mrgreen:

Bring 'em on... :mrgreen:

Another one bites the dust...
 
Good evening, Gipper. :2wave:

Yep, Ohio State was 12-0 last year against such "creampuffs" as Penn State, Illinois, Wisconsin, Michigan, Nebraska, Purdue, Miami, Michigan State, and four other great teams...even though they were ineligible to play in a Bowl game, due to the suspension.

Those of us who live in Ohio were very proud of the grit they showed all year! So there! :blah: :mrgreen:

Ohio State didn't make the top 100 in the NCAA's strength of schedule for all teams in Division 1 (this includes 1-AA). They had a cream puff schedule. Michigan was down (and nearly beat them), Michigan State was down, Nebraska was down. Miami was waaaaaaaay down.

By the way, reciting the conference schedule doesn't exactly help your case.
 
Good evening, Gipper. :2wave:

Yep, Ohio State was 12-0 last year against such "creampuffs" as Penn State, Illinois, Wisconsin, Michigan, Nebraska, Purdue, Miami, Michigan State, and four other great teams...even though they were ineligible to play in a Bowl game, due to the suspension.

Those of us who live in Ohio were very proud of the grit they showed all year! So there! :blah: :mrgreen:

Bring 'em on... :mrgreen:

Another one bites the dust...

Back in the 1980's during the scientific kerfluffle over "cold fusion," the claims for which were advanced (as I recall) by two professors from Texas A&M, a skeptical physicist cautioned that he could not believe in cold fusion until the experiments were replicated by researchers "from a university without a good football team.":mrgreen:
 
Back in the 1980's during the scientific kerfluffle over "cold fusion," the claims for which were advanced (as I recall) by two professors from Texas A&M, a skeptical physicist cautioned that he could not believe in cold fusion until the experiments were replicated by researchers "from a university without a good football team.":mrgreen:

aTm may have to go without Johnny Football this year, but I hope not...
 
I just hope he gets through all this with his head still screwed on straight. Good evening, AP.:2wave:

Given his off season, I wouldn't count on that.

Good evening 2m...
 
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