Coaches have been leaving teams before season is over for decades chasing money. College football has been broken for a long time, as college fanbases brag about tv contracts, donations, facilities just as much as winning a game. Plenty of kids will waste the money, just like adults do. Some of those kids are going to make good decisions with that money, that probably will not make it to the next level for various reasons. However, I guess it was better if they just stick with million dollar locker rooms, lazy rivers and coaches with 7-8 figure buyouts.
I guess I am growing tired of everything being about money and me. There was something truly beautiful and even noble about true amateur sports. I wonder if the Greek and Spartan athletes in the Greek Olympic games ever became tainted by money and corruption. The grand prize was simply a laurel crown. We've come a long, long way from that ideal.
This is the problem. It’s become a game with the SEC and Big Ten to outspend each other for athletes. Most other colleges can’t compete with them under any scenarios Most of these kids are going to make more money in college than they ever make when they leave college. Could they earn it without the platform that the college gives them ? No Could they earn a scholarship that allows an education to make money later on in their life? Most of them No
At least the Big Ten wasn't cheating before payments to players became legal.
I 100% agree with this statement. If, from the get-go, most of the big TV money had gone to the academic side of the house to lower the cost of education, the NCAA wouldn't be in the crisis situation it finds itself in today.
Big Ten cheated just did it without a southern accent
Don't you think this just open doors for even more "under-the-table stuff?" How long before player betting will be okay?
“putting everyone on the same playing field” is hilarious.
Player betting is illegal for pros. They can’t even place bets on other sports if they are on league and team property.
The question is should Universities want money not amateur athletics. You sound like my grandchildren whose answer to every change and every question is, "things are different now, Papa." I fully realize things are different now, but different does not always mean better or good. At present, Universities are doing a lot of things I don't approve of and I believe the administrations of many of our most prestigious institutions of higher learning are morally and ethically bankrupt. I assume you have listened to some of them as they faced Congressional Hearings and I hope you were shocked, or at least dismayed, over their responses.
Probably would have gotten more traction by offering a V-Bucks Card on his original proposition.
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Agreed, but the fans and alumni continue to funnel money to athletic programs. Suppose the only solution is to impose a salary cap, but then that makes college sports even more like the NFL and the excessive money from tv contracts is going to line someone's pockets, wouldn't be anyone actually generating the money. In a perfect world I guess all the money goes to the university to offer more scholarships, better educational facilities, better athletics for non-revenue generating sports.
Agreed UCF is an educational institution that gives a platform to its students and student athletes to utilize to gain future success Without the platform the less then 1% athletes would not get a pro contract. The other 99% were not getting it anyway as the pro sports market is limited
