(10-04-2019 01:33 AM)TripleA Wrote:  

(10-03-2019 07:19 PM)Attackcoog Wrote:  "The biggest worry is that when you have complete unfettered licensing agreements or unfettered endorsement deals, the model of college athletics is negligible at best and maybe doesn't even exist," he said. "Those deals would be arranged with support or engagement of school... so they do become professional employees of schools. That is what most member schools are concerned about, not that people are opposed to have an appropriate way to get some form of (compensation for athletes).

"We really need to get to a place where it becomes clear to everyone, especially to young men and women who play sports and their families, there needs to be a clear choice," Emmert said. "If you want to be a professional athlete, there ought to be those opportunities. If you look at baseball, for example, a young man at 18 can go out and be a professional baseball player. He can say, 'I can go here or I can go to college and if I go to college I can live by those rules. And then everybody goes by those rules. If he goes to launch his life, he can say, 'I'm not going to get an education, I'm not going to go to campus, I'm not going to play in the College World Series. And that's a free choice they can make."


https://www.indystar.com/story/sports/co...850522002/

That's a false argument. We're talking solely about football and basketball. In those two sports, athletes can't skip college and go straight to the pros, as they can in baseball.

Colleges take in billions in football and basketball. Those two sports fund everything else. Yet they still don't want to even let a few top athletes get paid for local commercials. That's asinine.

Emmert is also arguing that the colleges have to administer the payments, and thus they become employees, blah blah blah...no, they can just earn outside income like any other student does when he gets a job. The colleges don't administer those earnings, lol.

They can go to minor leagues or international in basketball. There are a number of minor leagues. But obviously, salaries are limited by the NBA rule.