since football players are employees now

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Just do away with their scholarships. Either take the scholarship or get paid & pay your own way with that.
 
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The simple answer is the NCAA could have made this very, very simple a long time ago by just allowing athletes to take endorsements and sign with agents. But they had to be difficult and hang on to this romantic notion of the amateur athlete.

I don't pity these guys one bit.
 
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The NCAA is nothing but A-holes to begin with. Bunch of money grabbing power hungry people that like to keep the student athlete broke & hungry. Ask Arian Foster about it.
 
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W.TN.Orange Blood said:
The NCAA is nothing but A-holes to begin with. Bunch of money grabbing power hungry people that like to keep the student athlete broke & hungry. Ask Arian Foster about it.
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Maybe his parents should have provided for him better!

Since when is it the NCAA responsibility to take care of anyone? He didn't have to play football and go to school he could have got a job!

Does the NCAA pay for a Joe Blow that isn't a ball player? Nope!!! He may be hungry also!
 
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volmaverick said:
Maybe his parents should have provided for him better!

Since when is it the NCAA responsibility to take care of anyone? He didn't have to play football and go to school he could have got a job!
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Some have skills to play the game of football & see that as a way out of the bad neighborhoods they come from. Nobody says NCAA should take care of them. But some of the rules & regulations handed down by the NCAA are terrible for some to live by. I bet they couldn't live by the same rules they demand other's to follow. Yeah, he could've stayed home in San Diego & be a big drag on his parents. Yeah, coulda woulda shoulda. The rest is history for Arian Foster. He's become a multi-millionaire pro football player after working his butt off to do so.
 
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volmaverick said:
Maybe his parents should have provided for him better!

Since when is it the NCAA responsibility to take care of anyone? He didn't have to play football and go to school he could have got a job!

Does the NCAA pay for a Joe Blow that isn't a ball player? Nope!!! He may be hungry also!
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Why do you care if the NCAA gets free labor or not?
 
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Why would they need to pay anything.

50+ cents per mile driven for a friggin car...

How much will the "football body/minute" write off be?????
 
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So if they pay athletes will it be a blanket rate?..because we do have volleyball teams, golf teams, tennis teams, soccer teams, swim teams, sculling teams, etc. Take away their scholarship, free gym access, free food, end sex discrimination, enforce "fair" racial quotas according to census data, and pay them the average pay rate of a college student working a part time job.

Watch how fast these retarded football players beg for the old system. This is a trumped up case of regret by the 99% of college athletes who don't make it pro and realize that their communications degree won't get them any farther then being a cash register jockey at Staples.
 
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volmaverick said:
Maybe his parents should have provided for him better!

Since when is it the NCAA responsibility to take care of anyone? He didn't have to play football and go to school he could have got a job!

Does the NCAA pay for a Joe Blow that isn't a ball player? Nope!!! He may be hungry also!
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the NCAA doesn't pay for anyone and if the fictional guy in your post is hungry he should go get a job. The ones playing football work for their school/food/housing

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It's already been discussed in the thread about it in around the NCAA.
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true but we don't really want volmav running loose in other forums. It's like a quarantine thing
 
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BearCat204 said:
Some are missing the point that these student-athletes are prohibited from having other jobs, while the bookworms can work any job and get paid for anything, like striping, that they want.
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Yep. The NCAA is taking advantage of the kids. Plain and simple. If you want to go to the NFL, you have to play college football. The NCAA forces them to dedicate a very large majority of their time to their sport while not paying them a dime. A lot of these kids come from rough backgrounds and may not have money to do a single thing.

All the while the NCAA is getting filthy rich off of these kids because they don't have to pay anyone other than themselves.
 
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K-town Vol Fan said:
Yep. The NCAA is taking advantage of the kids. Plain and simple. If you want to go to the NFL, you have to play college football. The NCAA forces them to dedicate a very large majority of their time to their sport while not paying them a dime. A lot of these kids come from rough backgrounds and may not have money to do a single thing.

All the while the NCAA is getting filthy rich off of these kids because they don't have to pay anyone other than themselves.
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I'm not really advocating paying players or them being employees or whatever, but I do think that they should be able to make money off of their likeness and things like that.
 
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K-town Vol Fan said:
The NCAA forces them to dedicate a very large majority of their time to their sport while not paying them a dime. A lot of these kids come from rough backgrounds and may not have money to do a single thing.
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I'm not against paying players a bit more but I really have an issue with this statement. There is money available if they truly need it and no one can stretch a dollar like a college student. They don't need ridiculous amounts of money since almost every need is taken care of.

we're talking about football players. Even when they're given millions about 80% will end up broke within just a couple of years.
 
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