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Federal court decisions have given the NCAA exemptions from anti-trust laws. I believe the following link reflects the latest court decision.
https://www.espn.com/college-sports/story/_/id/26199067/judge-rules-ncaa-antitrust-lawsuit
@MarkBoknecht
And what about other "unpaid emplyees?" The LaCrosse players? Tennis players? Gymnasts? Don't forget the golfers. Is there college ping pong?
How much revenue do those sports generate? None you say
Well there is your answer.
A right is not policy by the way. It's a right. The NCAA and educational institutions have gotten away with some very un-American things for a long long time. As with other rights once a sea change happens we never go back though. I think it's just a matter of time, changes are coming.
WDDawg,
I think it all started in sports with "everyone gets a trophy."
Kirby's trophy is 6 million a year. Venders, media, contractors, everybody gets market value ''trophies'' except the people everybody pays to see.
I think there is some missing the point. As I understand it the law is not about any college paying any players. It is about preventing the College from controlling outside work. If you sell your computer okay. If you sell your football jersey not okay. If the college sells a football jersey with your name and number Okay. If you sign a fan's program okay. If the Fan gives you money not okay. This is not about just football I think someone like Matthew Boling is in the same position. After North Carolina having classes that you did not even need to attend and the NCAA saying it was okay. The NCAA lost what little credibility it had with me. Maybe their need to be rules but the NCAA's haphazard way of enforcing them is not the way. Fields transfer okay. Ford transfer not okay.
I think it all started in sports with "everyone gets a trophy."
Couldn't be more incredibly wrong.
Kirby's trophy is 6 million a year. Venders, media, contractors, everybody gets market value ''trophies'' except the people everybody pays to see.
Exactly right. Everyone is making money. Its in the billions too with a B
Except the guys actually playing the game and doing lifelong damage to their bodies. They get no share of that money. Nothing more un american than that.
I guess the players should just shut up and go back out in the fields and.....I mean back on the field and play ball right?
While others count the money.
I’m sorry I was a year too late on my viewership stats. It doesn’t change the fact is down and trying to come back.
Don’t punch unless don’t mind being punched back.
@TDawg
Attendance is down everywhere. Even at SEC football games.
An effect of everyone having High Def TV's
This doesn't mean what you think it does.
I can’t believe you actually typed this. The interest generated in this sport is because of the players who play it now, and the ones who played before them.
Not the coaches.
Not the universities.
The players.
Everyone can make an absolute fortune off of this interest except for the players whose play generates the interest. No one’s asking for a “participation trophy,” or an outsized slice of the pie, or anything like that. The universities and coaches bring value to the table, and are compensated handsomely for it. But let Todd Gurley sign an autograph (which, frankly, is his personal property) for $50 bucks, and he’s suspended four games.
They’re asking for the most basic right of someone to profit on their own image and likeness. The thing they come into this world with that can truly be said to be their own possession.
Yet the players do not get paid like everybody else does so this bill falls woefully short unless you consider this a first step to something larger. Getting money from autographs and image/likeness benefits only a fraction of the players, not all. But it is something, I guess.
The solution is the players gaining a place at the table and collective bargaining between management and workers like every other revenue sport. My gut tells me players would be represented by experienced adults and all parties would avoid killing the goose that lays the golden eggs.
It bugs me some people make the argument that this will only help the guys destined for the nfl anyway, and they don’t need the help. Some arguments I think are way off base.