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Schools who want a good football/basketball product can't afford to get out of the media contracts....If the school is never going to be on tv, my thinking is that no kid with real big time talent would go to such a school because they won't get the exposure they want in order to get on the...

This is all well said.

If Tennessee ripped out Neyland stadium and provided no seats or anything, and every college followed suit (including right down to the bball arenas and stands at swimming pools), and they decided not to charge any money for tickets for any sporting event ---- i.e., the schools made zero money...

Yes, the syllabus spelled it out in several places, notably: I don't disagree. But it's important to note that players don't play for the NCAA, per se. The monopolistic power of the NCAA (and/or the 'business model' of the NCAA) is what, in effect, allowed schools to collude to limit...

thanks for that clarification..

Cmon... I'm not ignoring that kids weren't, in effect, bribed under the table. When the common academic scholarship (and I realize it varies) could get free room and board, free education, free whatever, AND be able to earn money on the side, while the athletic scholarship gets the same free...

Let's be fair.... What Kavanaugh rightfully pointed out was that the NCAA effectively held a monopoly in controlling how much players could be compensated (or not be compensated, as the case may be). That is the proper context of the entire ruling. If the NCAA didn't exist, then every conference...

If the university (or even a 3rd party vendor working at Neyland? [I honestly don't know how that all works]) wants to sell Bru McCoy jerseys at the stadium, then Bru McCoy ought to get some cut off of that. If the UC wants to sell Bru jerseys, Bru gets a cut. If McMillan's on the strip...

If I offer you a free education, room and board, uniforms, training facilities, etc., in exchange for you providing me a product, then what does it matter how much I make off the product you agreed to provide in exchange for the things I agreed to give you in exchange?

GREAT POST!

I think your understanding of 'work' in the legal sense is flawed. For example, "My daughter was a Division 1 college track athlete and the trained and 'worked' like crazy'" .... Yeah, she trained. Adding the word 'work' to supplant or support 'training' is superfluous, and you're just doing...

yo, shoutout from a fellow brothers' boy ('90).

might work for a sizeable mancave... lol

i cannot stand hearing the third down call .... ring the bell? that's fine. that's enough.

anything upbeat and power that brings on the proper 4th quarter attitude is a good suggestion.