A Business Insider article had this to say:
The National College Players Association and Drexel University just released a study on how much college athletes would be worth on the open market.
The conclusion: The fair market value for the average FBS football player is $137,357 per year, and the fair market value for the average men's basketball player is $289,031 per year.
Right now the average player earns just $23,204 in scholarship money.
The study is fairly simple. In the NBA, players receive 50% of all revenue, and in the NFL players receive 46.5% of all revenue.
http://www.businessinsider.com/heres-how...rth-2013-3
What do you guys think?
Title IX ensures it could never happen.
As much as they can manage to negotiate for once their union is formed.
That was easy.
Quote:As much as they can manage to negotiate for once their union is formed.
That was easy.
So what you're saying is that it will never happen.
Quote:So what you're saying is that it will never happen.
I'm saying one depends on the other, and never is a long time.
We should do a study on the fair market value of women's sports and little attended men's sports such as golf and soccer. Determine their fair market value and how much those student athletes should have to pay the school in order to be able to play their sport. Because they are obviously losing their schools money.
Quote:We should do a study on the fair market value of women's sports and little attended men's sports such as golf and soccer. Determine their fair market value and how much those student athletes should have to pay the school in order to be able to play their sport. Because they are obviously losing their schools money.
Exactly, people forget that Golf gets scholarships too. Actually I am quite frankly in support of no scholarships, and lowering the cost of tuition for everyone. SA getting a free ride is rather annoying considering that they add nothing but entertainment to a University and many aren't even interested in the actual school part. But the schools make money off (well actually, they usually don't, most schools get most of their money from *surprise* students and research, and actually waste money on sports programs). Really all they 'gain' is prestige, so they want it.
A minor league sport system would be better, but we all know once somebody is in the money, they don't want to give it up. Yeah university's shouldn't have sports programs, we are just supplementing a bad system that is over costly and burdensome to the school financially, students who actually want to attend, and taxpayers. Let the Minor league develop and it would be handled much better.The school-sport association has gotten out of hand.
Quote:We should do a study on the fair market value of women's sports and little attended men's sports such as golf and soccer. Determine their fair market value and how much those student athletes should have to pay the school in order to be able to play their sport. Because they are obviously losing their schools money.
Quote:Exactly, people forget that Golf gets scholarships too. Actually I am quite frankly in support of no scholarships, and lowering the cost of tuition for everyone. SA getting a free ride is rather annoying considering that they add nothing but entertainment to a University and many aren't even interested in the actual school part. But the schools make money off (well actually, they usually don't, most schools get most of their money from *surprise* students and research, and actually waste money on sports programs). Really all they 'gain' is prestige, so they want it.
A minor league sport system would be better, but we all know once somebody is in the money, they don't want to give it up. Yeah university's shouldn't have sports programs, we are just supplementing a bad system that is over costly and burdensome to the school financially, students who actually want to attend, and taxpayers. Let the Minor league develop and it would be handled much better.The school-sport association has gotten out of hand.
I'm sorry, I must have missed the federal law decreeing that colleges and universities must have collegial golf departments and scholarship athletes in it. Could you guys go ahead and link it for us?
They should get paid one free education, room and board included.
Quote:They should get paid one free education, room and board included.
Bingo. /thread
There's one BIG problem with this. The entire Athletics Department is a single entity just like a single Franchise in the NFL, NBA, etc. BYU Men's soccer is the only University sport I know of that is separate of its University's Athletics Department. If you are going to give the student-athletes 50% of the revenue the entire AD receives, it will be distributed amongst every student-athlete, not just basketball and football players.
Quote:They should get paid one free education, room and board included.
Then so should the coaches.
Quote:We should do a study on the fair market value of women's sports and little attended men's sports such as golf and soccer. Determine their fair market value and how much those student athletes should have to pay the school in order to be able to play their sport. Because they are obviously losing their schools money.
If it were a free market, sure.
Instead, there's Title IX.
(and once again, why it would never happen)
Quote:Then so should the coaches.
Why?
Quote:Then so should the coaches.
And everyone! Instead of jobs, everyone just gets free food and housing and compulsory education for life!!! Except, how do you have professors if they too are receiving an education?
Quote:Why?
Why not?
If the players can do it for tuition, food and a bed, why not the coaches?
Quote:And everyone! Instead of jobs, everyone just gets free food and housing and compulsory education for life!!! Except, how do you have professors if they too are receiving an education?
Quote:Why?
Well as long as we're all here on a message board shooting off our opinions on what other people should get paid, why not?
Quote:Why not?
If the players can do it for tuition, food and a bed, why not the coaches?
I guess they could if the colleges were hiring college students to coach the teams.