no they would all make the same amount probably low hundreds per month not thousands cause i know most schools couldnt afford that
low hundreds? if you're going all sports not a chance.. it'd be closer to 25 bucks a month per individual if you're going by a mid level athletic program. think about it, 200 a month lets say..you're dealing with JUST 100 or so athletes.. you think an athletic department has 20K off excess money a month?
I don't see what the problem is. If its 20$ a month thats fine. Theyre still getting a percentage of profit they essentially advertised and busted [email protected]%+ for. Its not like the super star kids will cease to get their royalties. Not really buying the free edcucation argument. Education is expensive, for the student. Not for the university.
QFT i dont think they realize how much time it really takes up but i think it could only work in the FBS division, more money availble for the most part
So many teams wouldn't be able to dish out money like that. The only teams in women's basketball that would be able to pay players would be UConn andTennessee. And think of I-AA football teams, there's no way they could pay all 80+ kids on the roster with their weak income.
It would be unfair to small colleges, and would screw up recruiting. Plus, free education isn't something to sneeze at. They already come out at least 40,000 ahead of most kids (and often much more), and honestly,they're just playing a sport. Sports aren't everything, and I already think it's ridiculous how much athletes get paid.
A student athlete is going to make more money for the school than the average student especially at a major program. I don't think people realize how muchmoney these athletes make for universities.
It's easy to say that student athletes shouldn't be getting paid, but when you look at how much the universities bring in because of the footballsquad, it just seems like they should get a cut... TV contracts + BCS births every year = Millions and millions of dollars
I think a lot of y'all are confusing profits with revenues. By the time you subtract all of the expenses (salaries, tuition for the students, studenthousing, meal plans, tutors for the students, maintaining facilities, travel for road games...), losses, etc., a lot of these athletic departments are barelybreaking even, if not taking a loss. Sure, the football team may be bringing in a $20 million profit, but that profit is taken and used to fund the sports like womens' basketball, softball,womens' soccer, swimming and diving teams, etc.... all of which operate on pretty big losses. I know for a fact that Texas A&M only has two profitable sports, and the athletic department has been operating on a loss for a long time. There are really only a handful of programs that, all sports considered, are operating in the black.
Its not about being fair its about buisiness... If you go to a small school that cant afford to pay its athletes then that clearly means that school dosent generate enough revenue....witch means you neededto be a better player in order to make a bigger program....if your not helping generate revenue then NO you should not get paid....lol....its a simple conceptfolks this can be decided by the coaches and athletic director as to witch players are apart of a payout...same as they decide witch players get a scholarship if you are apart of the reason why a program generates revenue then you should get a piece Im sure socialist would like everyone to get paid the same but as of now we still operate in a free society.....so the better you are the harder you = the moreyou get paid and rewarded.
No not at all. If you start paying "COLLEGE AND AMETUR(sp?)" athletes, then where is the line drawn? what's a professional and what isn't?
QFT. thats why i love college sports. they play with so much passion and heart. so no they shouldnt get paid.
a non profit (NCAA) has a just in basketball a $5 billion dollars in tv contracts. The math aint adding if the athletes aint getting none.
I remember reading an article a while back about Notre Dame football. They said after ALL expenses including coaches salaries, scholarships, travel etc thatthe football team grossed almost $21 million in profit. So I think there is a little something left over for the girls soccer team or anyone else. My opinionis that its done on a school by school basis. Take the total profit that ther athletic department generates, pick a percentage, then divide it by the totalnumber of student athletes at the school. As far as people saying an education isnt cheap, lets assume that the average 4 year player costs $150k to go toschool. First off $ 150k is the RETAIL price for the education, not the actual cost of the scholarship. I would have no idea what the actual cost would be ,but i would guess its maybe half of that. Even so, at a large athletic university a guy like say Tyler Hansborough is worth miuch more and generates much moremoney then his scholarship value. So maybe with the percentages, an athlete at UNC might get $250 a week, but an athlete at UNC Greensborough might only get$50 a week due to the amount of profit generated
so then you create built in recruiting advantages. a nightmare. It is not possible, you guys can create all the ideas you want. not happening. The ONLY plausible thing i could see is if TV networks and shoe companies step in and give back $ for what they've generated...and that has no chance ofhappening, either. and AD and coaches picking who gets paid? . Lawsuits waiting to happen.
They're already getting paid tens of thousands of dollars. At most schools, if they're lucky, only one or two programs are really profitable. At most,pay a stipend. A small one. To cover "incidentals" like cell phones, eating out on occasion, clothes, etc. Make it voluntary cuz mostschools/programs aren't going to be able to offer a stipend. Yes, it'll create some recruiting advantage, but it's not like they don't existalready. If it's small enough, it shouldn't cause that much of a problem. Grad students and a few others get "stipends" for"working" for the University so that's the argument I'd use to keep them "amateurs".