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RE: Kilpatrick: 'College athletes should be paid'
Yah. Unions would work well in a perfect world. But there's just too much evidence out there to not be able make analogous predictions of what they will do to college athletics- particularly to programs like UC football. Beginning of the end.
 
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RE: Kilpatrick: 'College athletes should be paid'
(04-11-2014 08:33 AM)CliftonAve Wrote:  I love college athletics, and selfishly, I don’t want it to change. I suppose my opinions specific to “pay the players” debate is based on experience; not experience as a college athlete, but as a long ago college student/graduate and in a couple years to be a parent of a college student. In short, what my grandparents, parents and I paid for is given to all major college athletes on scholarship. Tuition, shelter, food, healthcare, tutors, books, lab fees… plus personal trainers, the best gym membership money can buy, expert training/preparation in two potential career paths AND a monthly scholarship check. It is all FREE to these players. They have, essentially, a free four or five year life experience, plus the once in a lifetime opportunity of playing collegiate athletics in front of tens of thousands live and millions on television. They are idolized, exalted, admired and put on a pedestal. When it is all over they leave their chosen school with a debt free start in life, parents who didn’t have to sacrifice retirement accounts to pay for their education and the invaluable resume piece that they played collegiate athletics. In general, depending on where on attended college, the four experience is worth between 200-300K.

It is very difficult for me to get behind a group who already has so much but who complaints about wanting more. To me, it is laughable. In my opinion, our time would be much better spent coming up with ways to make a college education more affordable for the average student and his/her family. To be concerned about a college athlete when Joe Student is leaving the university with a six figure debt, living with mom and dad, waiting tables because the job market stinks and wondering how many decades it will be before he can pay off the student loans is sad indication of priorities in this country. I just cannot get behind it…

I completely agree that they have it really well off, but I don't really buy into the value of the education is already worth XXX amount case. That really isn't how things work anywhere. If they stopped paying you a 50K salary and said instead here is a $100,000 gift card to outback, you wouldn't like it. Why not?
Employers give away tons of valuable benefits and it doesn't exclude them from still paying legal wages. They can't say "you will get 100K worth of health care if you get sick and we'll throw in unlimited work uniforms and tshirts so we don't have to pay you". Nobody in the real world would go for such an arrangement.

With all that said, I think the players are welcome to fight for what they are worth, but they might not like the answer. I'm skeptical (like others) that specific players bring much value. I'm also a little turned off to their cause every time I hear nonsense about "not eating" and such. A good percentage of their fan base went to the school and knew at least one athlete. It isn't going to jive with the reality that any of us have seen even if it's just anecdotal evidence.
 
04-16-2014 10:49 AM
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