You really should put the numbers down on paper and compare what coaches, the networks, and shoe companies make to the actual players on the field/court in college. I don't care if you say the players get a free education, most of them could care less and would not have gone to college if they had the choice. Mind you, I don't say all, I say quite a few. Their number one job on campus is sports. If they don't perform, their scholarship is taken away, so it's quite clear what their number one focus is supposed to be.
So even if they get $40-60K in free education and housing, which many could care less about, over 4 years, they make $10-15K a year, which they don't get to enjoy in their pockets, while the NCAA, their coaches, apparel companies, the networks, make millions, even billions off of them. If college football and basketball didn't have Jimmy Clausens, Tebows, Reggie Bush's, Sam Bradfords, John Walls and other future pro athletes playing, do you think anyone would watch? Why is it fair for the NCAA to make billions off these athletes in what is supposed to be an amateur league?
This is slavery. Put the numbers down on paper. Slave masters paid for housing and food too, remember that. I can't understand how people can justify the actions of the NCAA. Their propaganda suckers the viewers by saying, "they get a free education." Sure, they get a free education, which they have to use to find a job, but there are a lot of people, who aren't running up and down the court, that are making millions that will secure their family's futures for years and afford them a life of luxury.
Why is it then, that people howl that when players like Reggie Bush take bribes, it harms the integrity of the games? If you ask me, the athletes are the fall guys for the real crooks, mainly because they are more visible entities.
And if anyone raises the argument about "what the other players on other teams at the college would get paid," maybe it's time you ask yourself why such big money events like men's basketball and football are even associated with universities, instead of having established, separate minor league networks? That would be the fair thing to do.
So even if they get $40-60K in free education and housing, which many could care less about, over 4 years, they make $10-15K a year, which they don't get to enjoy in their pockets, while the NCAA, their coaches, apparel companies, the networks, make millions, even billions off of them. If college football and basketball didn't have Jimmy Clausens, Tebows, Reggie Bush's, Sam Bradfords, John Walls and other future pro athletes playing, do you think anyone would watch? Why is it fair for the NCAA to make billions off these athletes in what is supposed to be an amateur league?
This is slavery. Put the numbers down on paper. Slave masters paid for housing and food too, remember that. I can't understand how people can justify the actions of the NCAA. Their propaganda suckers the viewers by saying, "they get a free education." Sure, they get a free education, which they have to use to find a job, but there are a lot of people, who aren't running up and down the court, that are making millions that will secure their family's futures for years and afford them a life of luxury.
Why is it then, that people howl that when players like Reggie Bush take bribes, it harms the integrity of the games? If you ask me, the athletes are the fall guys for the real crooks, mainly because they are more visible entities.
And if anyone raises the argument about "what the other players on other teams at the college would get paid," maybe it's time you ask yourself why such big money events like men's basketball and football are even associated with universities, instead of having established, separate minor league networks? That would be the fair thing to do.