Universities should move to how the Olympics pay athletes. Pay student athletes around a couple hundred dollars every month. Allow them to sell their likeness and get sponsors. This solves a lot of problems.

(06-03-2014 03:51 PM)MWC Tex Wrote:  

(05-31-2014 02:34 PM)ark30inf Wrote:  

(05-31-2014 01:44 PM)Maize Wrote:  Interesting...some "Champion" the NCAA, College Conferences collecting literally "Billions" off of TV Media Deals and Video Game featuring the "Student-Athletes" and their likeness but the minute the idea of Full Cost of Attendance comes up they give up on their viewing habits...ok....

Not everyone collects billions you know.

We are in a situation where the richest in the NCAA declare that it is the poor who are preventing them from being generous! As if the P5 have never had any power in the NCAA to stop the marketing of likenesses in video games and jerseys and huge tv contracts.

Those rotten poor schools have been forcing the wealthy to exploit college athletes and make billions!

The solution is to turn over all of the power to the privileged schools for the benefit of the student-athletes and cut the poor schools out of having a say-so and stop them from forcing the wealthy to do such vile greedy things.

Why do people keep forgetting that the NCAA has nothing to do with FBS football and get no money from FBS TV contracts and the such.

They get $10.8 Billion From CBS/Turner for the NCAA Basketball Tournament....

(06-03-2014 09:36 PM)Maize Wrote:  

(06-03-2014 03:51 PM)MWC Tex Wrote:  

(05-31-2014 02:34 PM)ark30inf Wrote:  

(05-31-2014 01:44 PM)Maize Wrote:  Interesting...some "Champion" the NCAA, College Conferences collecting literally "Billions" off of TV Media Deals and Video Game featuring the "Student-Athletes" and their likeness but the minute the idea of Full Cost of Attendance comes up they give up on their viewing habits...ok....

Not everyone collects billions you know.

We are in a situation where the richest in the NCAA declare that it is the poor who are preventing them from being generous! As if the P5 have never had any power in the NCAA to stop the marketing of likenesses in video games and jerseys and huge tv contracts.

Those rotten poor schools have been forcing the wealthy to exploit college athletes and make billions!

The solution is to turn over all of the power to the privileged schools for the benefit of the student-athletes and cut the poor schools out of having a say-so and stop them from forcing the wealthy to do such vile greedy things.

Why do people keep forgetting that the NCAA has nothing to do with FBS football and get no money from FBS TV contracts and the such.

They get $10.8 Billion From CBS/Turner for the NCAA Basketball Tournament....

Yes. Over 14 years....771 million/year. Which gets distributed over all 3 divisions. However, the comments we know most people are saying is the FBS $$ that a lot people think the NCAA gets.

And that is still a LOT OF $$$$ per year...

(06-04-2014 08:11 AM)Maize Wrote:  And that is still a LOT OF $$$$ per year...

http://www.ncaa.org/sites/default/files/...006715.pdf

And yet, looking at the last page of the financial report, there is only 60 million left after all the expenses and distributions are provide for across all 1300 institutions and all divisions.

(05-31-2014 01:18 PM)miko33 Wrote:  If this comes to pass, I'm never watch any college sports again. If I want to watch any sports, it will be the pros. I feel that the academic side is pushed to the side too much as it is for our so called "student athletes". If they're paid to play sports, it will be unacceptable IMHO. It's bad enough that the majority of them couldn't hack a basic college course of study as it is, but to PAY them to attend school? bull****.

Also, I'll restrict all future posting activity to the spin room only. I should spend more time over there anyways.

Darn it Mikko. You are the only reputable Japanese travel related source we have on this board regarding future realignment.