This would have to go to ALL schollie players, It is a way to seperate the real big players from everyone else. The BE needs to pray nothing like this happens. Players already get free education, Room n board, plus a food allowance. That is enough.
(05-19-2011 09:15 AM)goodknightfl Wrote: [ -> ]Players already get free education, Room n board, plus a food allowance. That is enough.
I wouldn;t say it is "enough," but there is no practical way to eve implement paying players that doesn;t open up a can of worms you cannot control. Basically once you make it legal to pay players X amount, it becomes impossible to police who is paying more than allowed.
And of course the Big Ten would want to do it. This way, they can retroactively say that Ohio State did nothign wrong.
I bet this is going to happen. All the AQ conferences will vote for it, and it will give the "haves" an even bigger advantage than the "have nots", because all conferences will be forced to do it or else be at a HUGE recruiting disadvantage, but whereas Big 10/SEC/Pac 12 conferences can absorb the cost with ease, the non-AQs, and maybe even Big East schools, might struggle with it.
I think the Big East will be fine. Read on ESPN earlier that the Pac 10 is already considering a similar proposal.
The key would be for the NCAA to step in and control the amounts by setting the guidelines.
Lets say you get a $5,000 stipend offer from SYR and and $8,000 offer from Michigan. Also, what if player A is getting $8,000 and player B is getting $3,000 on the same team.
If the NCAA can't stop this they need to control it. This can be good for the major conferences who can afford to pay players to play.
I think it should be no more than 5K a year.
I actually have to hand in a 20 page paper on the topic in a matter of days. As others have said this is a can of worms topic that will lead to the destruction of college athletics as we know it.
The main reason this simply cannot work is Title 9. You can not pay the football or basketball team without paying the same amount to womens programs which will lead to more cuts in mens sports. Title 9 is not just about opportunity but financial support as well. Even then the majority of institutions could not afford to pay all their sports programs.
The above would lead to a super conference situation and/or reclassification of what it means to be a Division 1 athletic institution which would be the preference of the Big Ten or SEC in this scenario. They fear by not paying football and basketball players that they will eventually lose control of the cash cow. This is no longer college athletics but a transition to professional sports. EVENTUALLY some network and group of investors are going to realize they can establish a minor league system in basketball and football by paying kids in high schools and selling them right off to the NFL or NBA like they do in Europe. Once all the best players are going into this system Ohio State and Michigan are fielding...well college athletic teams which could be a good thing. Because of Title 9 and non-profit status I do not believe these programs can professionalize the industry themselves so they completely lose out.
(05-19-2011 08:07 PM)snowycuse Wrote: [ -> ]I actually have to hand in a 20 page paper on the topic in a matter of days. As others have said this is a can of worms topic that will lead to the destruction of college athletics as we know it.
The main reason this simply cannot work is Title 9. You can not pay the football or basketball team without paying the same amount to womens programs which will lead to more cuts in mens sports. Title 9 is not just about opportunity but financial support as well.
Indeed, all scholarship athletes will have to get the same amount of money, regardless of gender or sport.
That won't be a problem for the conferences where the schools are getting $20 million+ per year for TV alone. But, it will be very onerous to everyone else and they will have to cut back. It's going to happen, and it will widen the gap between the haves and have-nots.
