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OrangeVolMan said:
I am already paying for their school, meals, tutoring, pell grants, healthcare, etc. if they are making money they can pay their own way. I will be done paying money.
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And don't leave out coaching and conditioning for the next level.
 
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SpaceCoastVol said:
No.
Don't need to. We do not need to be paying college athletes. Period. If you want, you can give them a tax write off, but that's it. Or if you insist on this tack, share the revenue generated among all players of all sports that the university offers. It would be a good lesson in socialism/equality for them.
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"We" wouldn't be paying them. Athletes, like any other famous person, would be free to profit from their likeness and name AND YES be responsible for tax on their earnings.

If the school is going to sell jerseys with their name on it, they get a cut....... just like America SHOULD function. What is radical about this? Why should someone's fame NOT be theirs? Why should someone else be able to profit from their picture but not them?

What is radical about this?
 
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SayUWantAreVOLution said:
"We" wouldn't be paying them. Athletes, like any other famous person, would be free to profit from their likeness and name AND YES be responsible for tax on their earnings.

If the school is going to sell jerseys with their name on it, they get a cut....... just like America SHOULD function. What is radical about this? Why should someone's fame NOT be theirs? Why should someone else be able to profit from their picture but not them?

What is radical about this?
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Because without the university, they have no 'fame'.
 
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SayUWantAreVOLution said:
They have fame because of their talent.

Larry Bird wasn't famous because he went to Indiana State. He was famous because he was freakishly talented.
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Oh puleeez. I had never heard of him before college basketball put him on the map. And you do realize that this will be:

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SpaceCoastVol said:
Oh puleeez. I had never heard of him before college basketball put him on the map. And you do realize that this will be:

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So, LeBron wouldn't be anything without the NBA and doesn't deserve to be able to sign contracts to sell his image and likeness?

I mean, without the NBA, Michael Jordan was just another schmo off the street, right? Peyton Manning is nobody without the NCAA and NFL, right?
 
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peaygolf said:
I know that. My answer was a simple alternative.

Athletes should not be paid until they turn professional anyway. Schools need to stop using the athletes name, image, and likeness. See how the athletes like not getting Free publicity.
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They're going to get publicity via ESPN.

You expect they're going to just call out Devonta Smith as #6? It's their TALENT that makes them famous.
 
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peaygolf said:
Then the student athletes need to get paid by ESPN and all the sports channels.:cool:
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Seriously, you guys insist "we should recruit the best athletes, guys with the most talent" and then don't want to acknowledge that talent is valuable to them PERSONALLY as well as to the school.

Why is it so hard to allow an American to profit from their own talent?
 
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SayUWantAreVOLution said:
Seriously, you guys insist "we should recruit the best athletes, guys with the most talent" and then don't want to acknowledge that talent is valuable to them PERSONALLY as well as to the school.

Why is it so hard to allow an American to profit from their own talent?
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They ARE profiting.
Free everything...........and a great internship for their professional career.....
 
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peaygolf said:
They ARE profiting.
Free everything...........and a great internship for their professional career.....
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And they should also, like any other citizen, be able to profit if someone sells their image or name on merchandise.

Again, this isn't radical. Either stop trading on the athlete's fame and talent or share the proceeds from the sales. This is the American way. You don't get to sell someone's image and name and not cut them in on the profits.
 
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SayUWantAreVOLution said:
And they should also, like any other citizen, be able to profit if someone sells their image or name on merchandise.

Again, this isn't radical. Either stop trading on the athlete's fame and talent or share the proceeds from the sales. This is the American way. You don't get to sell someone's image and name and not cut them in on the profits.
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Perfect.....I go back to my original post. Let the student athletes make all they can..... and pay their own way.
 
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peaygolf said:
Perfect.....I go back to my original post. Let the student athletes make all they can..... and pay their own way.
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Schools quit offering scholarships to players and the pros will step in with a farm system.

Elite players hit the farm teams and ESPN signs the contract with them, not the NCAA.

College football becomes frat boy intermural level.

Shrug. That's free market economics at its best.
 
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SayUWantAreVOLution said:
Schools quit offering scholarships to players and the pros will step in with a farm system.

Elite players hit the farm teams and ESPN signs the contract with them, not the NCAA.

College football becomes frat boy intermural level.

Shrug. That's free market economics at its best.
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Sounds like that’s what you want anyway
 
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peaygolf said:
Perfect.....I go back to my original post. Let the student athletes make all they can..... and pay their own way.
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Fine, but if they have to pay their own way, it should be optional for them whether or not they are students at the university they play for.
 
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Vols1891 said:
Fine, but if they have to pay their own way, it should be optional for them whether or not they are students at the university they play for.
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Seriously?
No......

Just don’t pay them anything. If they don’t like it......don’t play college athletics
 
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Kids on academic scholarships receive similarly valued benefits, but they aren’t putting their physical well being on the line for 3 to 4 years. These student athletes deserve to be paid for their additional risks and time spent on their craft. At this point it’s unAmerican not to be paying them.
 
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When schools like Bama, OSU and USC can have boosters guarantee to buy 100,000 jerseys to get a recruit what happens to everyone else? Its a big can of worms that will doom college football as we know it.
 
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Flathead75 said:
When schools like Bama, OSU and USC can have boosters guarantee to buy 100,000 jerseys to get a recruit what happens to everyone else? Its a big can of worms that will doom college football as we know it.
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Some people don’t understand that.....unfortunately
 
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