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#2Minimum wage is necessary
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#3Let the poor demand to be paid. And ignore that for most universities, the sportsballs are net losses on the whole.
By all means pay them what they are owed. They are owed exactly what they demand and receive for contracting their playing services. If they can strengthen their hand by bargaining as a team, go for it.
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#4Minimum wage is necessary
Minimum wage is a band-aide on gaping wound. The problem is that employers control employees lives, while employees at worst can take a company down - leaving the owner in a position where he just has to go get a job. The power obviously weighs heavily in the favor of the employer.
If everyone (and I do mean everyone including the 1%) was given a wage that could keep you alive and healthy, then there would be balance of power between employer and employee and you would see people taking advantage of each other much less.
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#5The counter to paying college players is that it can be a gateway to the NFL, so college players play for "free" in exchange for access to a potentially very lucrative career. So why not a venture capital model? Pay players, with the condition that the university receives a % of their pro pay.
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#6Minimum wage is necessary
Minimum wage is a band-aide on gaping wound. The problem is that employers control employees lives, while employees at worst can take a company down - leaving the owner in a position where he just has to go get a job. The power obviously weighs heavily in the favor of the employer. If everyone (and I do mean everyone including the 1%) was given a wage that could keep you alive and healthy, then there would be balance…
Ha, you put it much more eloquently! I agree - the underlying problem is obviously how much the wealth disparity has grown.
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#7I'll never understand why people reject the most sensible answer: allow high school students to be drafted into the NFL.
Even if they're not playing in the NFL for 2,3 or 4 years, pu them into a developmental league where they can earn $30K a year for a shot to make the league.
Then college is reserved for people who want to go to college, not for people who have to go because that's the collusion that's been designed. It's been designed to protect the value of college football, which exploits poor athletes who otherwise have no way to make a living in sports.
The system is likewise awful for college athletics. Kids who have no reverence for school (why should they) break the rules, break the law and are coddled because they make millions for the university with no pay. Then we all have to pretend like we care about academics in student athletes, coaches impose 1-game suspensions during the 1-AA game week and everyone happily looks away.
Major League Baseball has solved this - you may be drafted out of high school, but once you start college you have to be out three years. It preserves the notion of amateur athletics - of trading your athletic skill for a shot at a degree - without forcing people to take that route.
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#8I'll never understand why people reject the most sensible answer: allow high school students to be drafted into the NFL. Even if they're not playing in the NFL for 2,3 or 4 years, pu them into a developmental league where they can earn $30K a year for a shot to make the league. Then college is reserved for people who want to go to college , not for people who have to go because that's the collusion that's been design…
Youre looking at it from the wrong side. NCCAF is one of the largest making money leagues in the world and certainly the largest money making "amateur league" the reluctance is on the systems side, not the employee side.
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#9The counter to paying college players is that it can be a gateway to the NFL, so college players play for "free" in exchange for access to a potentially very lucrative career. So why not a venture capital model? Pay players, with the condition that the university receives a % of their pro pay.
Top-tier college recruits shouldn't need a gateway to the NFL with their talent level.
We can stick with a tech metaphor: It would be like all tech companies and startups and VCs colluding to require a certain number of years in college before being willing to hire or fund anyone. And the universities would own any apps/code the kids wrote while they were in school. Obviously it would be ludicrously imbalanced for the top 18-year-olds in that situation to give up that much earning potential in exchange for a "gateway" to a profession that needs them anyway.
Sadly people really get into tribalism, and have much stronger ties to their college than they would to any local minor league team, so there's tremendous amounts of money in play to maintain the status quo.
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#10I'll never understand why people reject the most sensible answer: allow high school students to be drafted into the NFL. Even if they're not playing in the NFL for 2,3 or 4 years, pu them into a developmental league where they can earn $30K a year for a shot to make the league. Then college is reserved for people who want to go to college , not for people who have to go because that's the collusion that's been design…
Youre looking at it from the wrong side. NCCAF is one of the largest making money leagues in the world and certainly the largest money making "amateur league" the reluctance is on the systems side, not the employee side.
No, that's exactly how I'm looking at it. I understand why the collusion exists - it exists to protect college football as a money-making mechanism.
It also provides the NFL with a no-cost developmental league.
I just wonder why there's not more clamoring to blow this rule up. I can't recall a peep since Maurice Clarett challenged it last.
I will say this, though - if we accept this rule (that you cannot enter the NFL directly out of high school) - colleges should at least be honest about this. The notion that you go and get a "Communications" degree (insert your alma mater's sports academics program of choice) is insulting to everyone involved. Why not make a "Sports" degree that focuses on the elements of being an athlete or former athlete? Why is that taboo?