Say goodbye to Vanderbilt, Northwestern, Duke and Stanford football..

https://mobile.nytimes.com/2017/02/01/sp...H1&PC=APPL

With Trump President, I don't believe this has any chance of happening.

(02-01-2017 08:29 PM)LSUtah Wrote:  Say goodbye to Vanderbilt, Northwestern, Duke and Stanford football..

https://mobile.nytimes.com/2017/02/01/sp...H1&PC=APPL

Or, they decide to pay their players and the national championship is Duke vs Northwestern?

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There are lots of apprentices and interns out there that get paid very little, if anything.

how big of a deal is this?

Not going to happen. They are students, and not employees.

(02-02-2017 08:00 AM)DavidSt Wrote:  Not going to happen. They are students, and not employees.

So are you suggesting colleges should never hire students for anything? I'm pretty sure that currently there are plenty of students who are also employees.

Yea not going to happen. Wouldn't surprise me to see the NLRB be eliminated soon since they were purely used for political means under Obama.

Perhaps one of the lawyers here could explain why this would only apply to private colleges and universities, and would exclude publics. How are their athletes any different?

(02-02-2017 08:25 AM)Hokie Mark Wrote:  

(02-02-2017 08:00 AM)DavidSt Wrote:  Not going to happen. They are students, and not employees.

So are you suggesting colleges should never hire students for anything? I'm pretty sure that currently there are plenty of students who are also employees.

I'm not a proponent of paying players but I do believe the AD budget should give "allowances" to student-athletes for essential needs. As a student-athlete in college myself (at a small D-III school), we were given food and other things quite often. We weren't hurting by any means. Players at large schools are getting at least what we got - I guarantee it.

It will make their scholarships taxable income

(02-02-2017 09:23 AM)BePcr07 Wrote:  

(02-02-2017 08:25 AM)Hokie Mark Wrote:  

(02-02-2017 08:00 AM)DavidSt Wrote:  Not going to happen. They are students, and not employees.

So are you suggesting colleges should never hire students for anything? I'm pretty sure that currently there are plenty of students who are also employees.

I'm not a proponent of paying players but I do believe the AD budget should give "allowances" to student-athletes for essential needs. As a student-athlete in college myself (at a small D-III school), we were given food and other things quite often. We weren't hurting by any means. Players at large schools are getting at least what we got - I guarantee it.

Isn't that what the full cost of attendance that was approved last year all about?

(02-02-2017 08:34 AM)ken d Wrote:  Perhaps one of the lawyers here could explain why this would only apply to private colleges and universities, and would exclude publics. How are their athletes any different?

I'm not a lawyer, but I know the answer. State and local governments can declare who is and who is not an employee and the Feds can't do a damn thing about. The US Constitution precludes the US government from interfering with the states.

It won't happen but it suits me! Nothing would improve Kentucky and North Carolina basketball like Duke having to actually pay its players. Add all of the other private basketball schools to the list and voila, hell even the SEC state school rosters would improve!

But kidding aside, if the privates get their goose cooked on this one, then the state schools will have to take a long gander at their futures as well. One's not getting nailed while the other skates.

The SEC will not just idly hand the keys over to Vanderbilt.

(02-02-2017 12:02 PM)curtis0620 Wrote:  It will make their scholarships taxable income

Probably not the part that covers tuition, books and fees.