Originally Posted by Swampboy:
The players do not have value as minor league athletes. Their value is their ability to promote tribal loyalty to the university brand.
There isn't a market demand for several hundred minor league basketball and football teams, but there are several hundred schools who value what the athletes can do for them.
For all the people insisting that compensation should be capped at cost of attendance while also bemoaning how many college athletes are not qualified students: if you know most of these students won't make money in the pros and won't earn degrees that will launch them on careers, how can you possibly justify capping there compensation at the one time in their life they have economic value AND insist on paying them in a currency they do not value.
There isn't a market demand for several hundred minor league basketball and football teams, but there are several hundred schools who value what the athletes can do for them.
For all the people insisting that compensation should be capped at cost of attendance while also bemoaning how many college athletes are not qualified students: if you know most of these students won't make money in the pros and won't earn degrees that will launch them on careers, how can you possibly justify capping there compensation at the one time in their life they have economic value AND insist on paying them in a currency they do not value.
They are in COLLEGE.....they are not at the school to PLAY FOOTBALL!!!! What part of this do people not understand? You can't say pay them to play...and yet allow them to disregard their educational responsibilities. If you don't want to go to college, you're free to go get a job the day you graduate from HS.....but you can't go to college without having to at least MAKE AN EFFORT to attend classes and get an education. College sports only exist because there are colleges....not the other way around.