NotRasho wrote: ↑Thu Sep 12, 2019 3:47 pm
flexbuffchest wrote: ↑Thu Sep 12, 2019 6:23 am
Might be the beginning of the end for the NCAA now that California made it legal for college athletes to be paid.
https://www.espn.com/college-sports/sto ... ls-harmful
The NCAA on Wednesday said legislation in California aimed at giving college athletes a chance to earn money while in school -- known as the Fair Pay to Play Act -- is harmful and unconstitutional and would "upend the balance" of national competition in college sports.
The organization's board of governors sent a letter Wednesday to California Gov. Gavin Newsom, asking that the state not pass the bill.
California's state Senate voted Wednesday to pass the Fair Pay to Play Act with a tally of 39-0. The California State Assembly approved the bill by a 73-0 vote earlier this week. The bill now moves to Newsom, who will have 30 days to decide whether he will sign it into law.
The proposed legislation, which would not go into effect until 2023, would make it illegal for California schools to take away an athlete's scholarship or eligibility as punishment for accepting endorsement money.
Now the "student athletes" should have a system that is slightly more fair to them.
Colleges will make it part of their scholarship process to have athletes waive this or not get a scholarship IMO.
The real problem is student athletes not really being student athletes. People like Zion were touring Duke for a year, nothing more, and everybody knows it. Hes not a student athlete, hes an athlete who is taking the next step in their athletic career. I would rather people like that bypass college altogether rather than this sham of one and done.
A scholarship IS their compensation. The only people it isnt enough for seem to be the ones who wont be there in a year or two anyway. I dont feel bad for them, if you want to make money off yourself then dont take their scholarship offer, pretty simple.
1. I agree and if the athletes were true scholar-athletes it would be significant compensation.
2. The vast bulk of the brand value of NCAA athletics lies with the college. Lets put it this way, if you put a team of Amir Coffey-Jordan Murphy-Daniel Oturu-Gabe Kalsheur and Dupree McBrayer together they could not get all of their parents to show up for the game and even less if they actually had to pay for admission. Put those same players in a University of Minnesota Gopher basketball uniform, and even though they are a mediocre team they have local television and radio, national television contracts, and more than 9,000 people paid significant money to watch a very mediocre team play each home game in 2018-19.
3. If they system was really concerned about what is "right", instead of maximizing revenues, the NBA and NFL would set up their own minor league systems. But, they are as corrupt as the NCAA and know that the huge media exposure NCAA basketball and football gets means that their incoming rookies will have huge marketing values for their leagues. Their incoming players play before massive television audiences versus baseball and hockey, non-revenue college sports whose phenoms toil in front of a few hundred fans in the minor leagues when they turn professional (mostly baseball).
IF it wasn't for the huge dollars and power that the universities garner from their athletic programs, they could end the charade of having non-qualified individuals come to their colleges just to play sports. The entire concept is divorced from reality and the lies that need to be told to keep the illusions up are absolutely immoral.
In the long run, I think all the parties concerned would be much better off if it changed. The money corrupts the colleges and universities. I think the student-athletes in football and basketball would be much better off playing in a minor league system like baseball has where they could be paid a salary and practice their athletic craft exclusively. The top level players would enter the league early like in hockey and baseball, other players would have a lot of time to develop their skills while receiving coaching and experience that is the same as teh NFL/NBA.