@fenwaysouth posted:Thanks for sharing @anotherparent.
Wow, I recall a discussion about this very topic on this website 12+ years ago. I've been waiting for it, and it's finally out in the open because the NCAA is desperate now. Would they really be "student athletes" because they would be paid through a trust fund. Sounds too convenient. Let me guess, that proposed trust fund is managed by the University or the NCAA or both? C'mon. The NCAA is sugar coating this thing in hopes of keeping it under their thumb and making more money to support their platform of lawyers. This NCAA ruse has been going on for way too many years.
I want to hear more about Baker's proposed framework to make what he called “fundamental changes”. I want to hear how this proposal is going to improve the athletes education first, then discuss the money. Too many young athletes miss out on a quality education because they are full time athletes first.
JMO.
I also think that this program is all about making sure that Title IX Standards are being implemented. Look, the NCAA and College Administrators are not pragmatic and practical people. They don't understand free market enterprise, and they live in a bubble of their left leaning friends that do nothing but reinforce their positions. These people believe that there is a utopian society out there and we need to strive to get there.
Their biggest concern is equality, and they are angry that College football DT's are getting hundreds of Thousands of dollars through NIL collectives, and yet the women's soccer goalie hasn't received a nickel. The goal of this proposal is to create a trust that colleges can made a line item on their Athletic budget. Their hope is that the alumni and boosters who are funding these NIL collectives will stop using collectives and will donate those funds to the Athletic department instead. The Athletic department then deposits the money into this trust and the money get distributed fairly and equally among all athletes so that the greedy good for nothing football running back won't get $250,000 and the women's golf team not get the priveledge of getting anything.
This proposal is all about getting money redistributed from male athletes to female athletes. It's all about Title IX.