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The best suggestion I've seen so far on this topic is this: Just let players make money based on their own likeness. It solves two problems -- players don't get paid from Universities but get paid for things like being in NCAA football or doing a Nike/ESPN commercial for a big game. It also solves any Title X problems, because the same could apply to a major female track athlete.
Won't work. Men would make all, or nearly all, of the money and there'd be cries of inequlity and we'd be right back to square one trying to figure out the perfect solution. When the perfect solution is...you pay men and women. Or nobody gets paid.
Tough shit. That’s the free market, baby.
Tough shit. That’s the free market, baby.
Great, so no one gets paid and we're still talking about this shit the next time it happens.
I agree that's the way it should be, but Title IX would never allow it.
No. Like maize n blue said. Let players make money off their likeness. Title IX ain’t got shit to say about it. Female athletes can do so if they can find a market.
I see I'm dealing with a mental midget here. I explained why you're wrong in my reply to maize n blue. If you can't or won't accept that explanation, then that's a you problem.
Can't allow them to make money off their likeness because then programs will just use it as a recruiting tool and promise to push X amount of dollars in buying things "for their likeness" and so on.
But really, the players are paid very well already and it's a myth that they aren't. A single scholarship football player at Alabama costs the school $125,000 every year, and that's not counting the $25,000 they qualify for in free money or that they are still eligible for student loans.
There are no poor college football players. Those cars and shit they drive - actually comes from legit money they get.
Won't work. Men would make all, or nearly all, of the money and there'd be cries of inequlity and we'd be right back to square one trying to figure out the perfect solution. When the perfect solution is...you pay men and women. Or nobody gets paid.