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"paying athletes would corrupt the spirit of college games"
"players are students first, athletes second"
NCAA making billions and paying their athletes the equivalent of $40k a year is about to end. All I can say is that it's about ing time.
http://www.economist.com/news/busine...s-basket-casesIT IS the way the game has long been played. In two of the most popular and money-spinning sports in the United States, basketball and American football, talented young players hoping to turn professional are first, in effect, forced to undergo between one and three years of amateurism. This is because professional teams select almost all their new players from university and college teams which follow the rules of the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA).
In their amateur years most players get their tuition fees paid, but the colleges and the NCAA receive the income from televising games and related merchandise. Some of that is used to offer scholarships for deserving but less stellar players, and to support other, less lucrative sports.
Several professional players, angry that their earning-power was crimped during some of their most productive years, have brought a series of lawsuits. The suits have been combined into a class action against the association, in the name of Ed O’Bannon, a former college-basketball star (pictured). This accuses the NCAA of breaking an rust law. In the latest hearing, on July 19th, six current players from college-football teams joined the case.
Lawyers for those bringing the case claim that other current student athletes would join in, but fear reprisals: the NCAA wields immense power over them, governing their eligibility to compete and receive scholarships. The association’s lawyer angrily rejects any suggestion that it would retaliate.
Although the court case is likely to drag on for at least another year, it has already prompted the association to scrap a licensing deal with EA Sports, the maker of NCAA-branded football video games and a co-defendant in the case, when it expires next year. The inclusion of current athletes in the lawsuit means a much bigger source of revenue is now at stake: a college-sports broadcasting deal with CBS Sports and Turner Broadcasting worth $10.8 billion over 14 years.
Last year the NCAA’s revenues were $872m, but the athletics departments of its member colleges together raked in an estimated $11.4 billion, including grants and subsidies of various sorts and fees charged to students. The University of Texas had the highest athletics revenues, at $163m, but most ins utions do not earn enough to cover the costs of their sports programmes. All would stand to lose large amounts if they had to pay star athletes according to their pulling power.
In 1984 some of the colleges themselves sued the NCAA over football television revenue, alleging a cartel and price-fixing. The Supreme Court agreed and gave the colleges the power to strike their own broadcasting deals if they wished. As for the players, however, a brief comment in the court’s long ruling said that, to preserve the character and quality of college sports, they must not be paid. The association argues that this still holds, but the torrent of television money that has flowed to the colleges since the court’s decision has heightened a feeling that the athletes are being exploited. Coaches of college teams can earn millions of dollars a year, and other athletics officials also do nicely.
History does not seem to be on the NCAA’s side. Players of professional Major League Baseball gained the right to be free agents in the 1970s. In the same decade the Olympics began to phase out amateurism: now only boxing and wrestling are all-amateur. But the NCAA is not giving up easily. It argues that paying athletes would corrupt the spirit of college games, and that the players are students first, athletes second—despite the fact that few star players finish their degrees.
"paying athletes would corrupt the spirit of college games"
"players are students first, athletes second"
It's not losing in special status.
College sports
"paying athletes would corrupt the spirit of college games"
"players are students first, athletes second"
Some of the larger schools are thinking about breaking away from the NCAA entirely and create some kind of "ultra" tier 1 league.
I would be very surprised especially in light of how the court ruled against the NFL a few years ago if the NCAA is not slapped pretty hard here shortly. And Wake Forest, Utah St, et al can make claims of 'we won't stand for this' but what the court rules the court rules. If they cannot figure out a way to still make gobs of money then that is their own problem.
I hope that their business model with youth as the new is coming to its end. ACA and this needs to go.
I was speaking more in terms of the BCS schools breaking away. Not sure if the concept is rooted in athlete pay tho.
http://www.cbssports.com/columns/sto...-way-they-have
Last edited by TeyshaBlue; 08-05-2013 at 01:28 PM.
How To Fix The NCAA Rule That May Ensnare Johnny Manziel
The next episode in soap opera that has become Johnny Manziel’s offseason broke Sunday evening, when ESPN reported that the NCAA is investigating claims that the Heisman Trophy-winning Texas A&M quarterback may have accepted a “five-figure flat fee” to autograph assorted memorabilia while he was in Miami during the national championship game in January.
Manziel’s off-field exploits this offseason have overshadowed many of the on-field accomplishments that made him Johnny Football last fall, and that has made him anything but a sympathetic figure in the eyes of many football fans and observers. Manziel knew the rule and still broke it, so maybe he doesn’t deserve sympathy here. And as CBS Sports’ Gregg Doyel argued, he doesn’t need the money:
There’s an argument to be made that the college system is ripping off the labor, but Johnny Manziel isn’t the typical college football labor. His family is loaded. We don’t know how much money they have, but we know this: Manziel is the great-grandson of an oil baron. He grew up in a house on the golf course. He drives a Mercedes-Benz. Lots of athletes break NCAA rules and sell autographs for money because they need it. If the report is true, Johnny Manziel broke NCAA rules because he wanted it. And that’s different.
But it isn’t different and it doesn’t matter whether Manziel needed the money or not. The short-term issue in this case is, as Doyel noted, whether Manziel jeopardized his eligibility and Texas A&M’s season by breaking the rule
http://thinkprogress.org/sports/2013...ohnny-manziel/
From what I understand, he pretty much ed A&M by accepting payment for the autographs. If the NCAA rules as such, and I don't see how they could not, then he's gone for next season.
Johnny Football is his own worst enemy.
Yep. Allegedly $30,000 and they have him dead to rights. Aggies are screaming bloody murder and moaning about how unfair it is and that it is a conspiracy.
Last edited by CosmicCowboy; 08-05-2013 at 12:06 PM.
Guess he will get to party, party, party, until the 2014 draft.
Dude is a head case. This is his paid "manager".
http://bustedcoverage.com/2013/08/05...er-uncle-nate/
Whoa...there's assloads of denial on the aggie forums. They're blaming UT and ESPN.
Yeah, it's funny as . Aggies are going nuts.Whoa...there's assloads of denial on the aggie forums. They're blaming UT and ESPN.
Sorry, Fuzzy. Didn't mean to derail the thread.
Aggie football recruits should be feeling screwed.
Not if they are quarterback recruits.
So how's that SEC schedule looking without your QB sons?
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