I Expect More Books, Etc On This As Time Goes On

[slick1ru2]

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/21/books/review/indentured-by-joe-nocera-and-ben-strauss.html?smid=tw-nytbooks&smtyp=cur&referer=https%3A%2Ft.co%2FfyovM5qtjB&_r=1

[slick1ru2]

The description on Amazon...

 

 “How can the NCAA blithely wreck careers without regard to due process or common fairness? How can it act so ruthlessly to enforce rules that are so petty? Why won’t anybody stand up to these outrageous violations of American values and American justice?”
 
In the four years since Joe Nocera asked those ques­tions in a controversial New York Times column, the National Collegiate Athletic Association has come under fire. Fans have begun to realize that the athletes involved in the two biggest college sports, men’s bas­ketball and football, are little more than indentured servants. Millions of teenagers accept scholarships to chase their dreams of fame and fortune—at the price of absolute submission to the whims of an organiza­tion that puts their interests dead last.
 
For about 5 percent of top-division players, college ends with a golden ticket to the NFL or the NBA. But what about the overwhelming majority who never turn pro? They don’t earn a dime from the estimated $13 billion generated annually by college sports—an ocean of cash that enriches schools, conferences, coaches, TV networks, and apparel companies . . . everyone except those who give their blood and sweat to entertain the fans.
 
Indentured tells the dramatic story of a loose-knit group of rebels who decided to fight the hypocrisy of the NCAA, which blathers endlessly about the purity of its “student-athletes” while exploiting many of them: The ones who get injured and drop out be­cause their scholarships have been revoked. The ones who will neither graduate nor go pro. The ones who live in terror of accidentally violating some obscure rule in the four-hundred-page NCAA rulebook.
 
Joe Nocera and Ben Strauss take us into the inner circle of the NCAA’s fiercest enemies. You’ll meet, among others . . .
 
·Sonny Vaccaro, the charismatic sports marketer who convinced Nike to sign Michael Jordan. Dis­gusted by how the NCAA treated athletes, Vaccaro used his intimate knowledge of its secrets to blow the whistle in a major legal case.
·Ed O’Bannon, the former UCLA basketball star who realized, years after leaving college, that the NCAA was profiting from a video game using his image. His lawsuit led to an unprecedented antitrust ruling.
·Ramogi Huma, the founder of the National Col­lege Players Association, who dared to think that college players should have the same collective bargaining rights as other Americans.
·Andy Schwarz, the controversial economist who looked behind the façade of the NCAA and saw it for what it is: a cartel that violates our core values of free enterprise.
 
Indentured reveals how these and other renegades, working sometimes in concert and sometimes alone, are fighting for justice in the bare-knuckles world of college sports

[JTrue]

As one of the 95%, I was more than fairly compensated for my work with a free education and it never occurred to me I should be trying to wrangle a bigger piece of the pie.

[slick1ru2]

As one of the 95%, I was more than fairly compensated for my work with a free education and it never occurred to me I should be trying to wrangle a bigger piece of the pie.

So at $1 billion being made off student athletes you think it's a fair deal. How about $500 billion? A trillion? At what point do you realize you're being a sucker?

[JTrue]

6 hours ago, slick1ru2 said:

So at $1 billion being made off student athletes you think it's a fair deal. How about $500 billion? A trillion? At what point do you realize you're being a sucker?

At what point in your collegiate athletic career did the light come on for you?

[slick1ru2]

On March 31, 2016 at 8:15 AM, JTrue said:

At what point in your collegiate athletic career did the light come on for you?

Deflection isn't an answer.  Our college athletics system is equivalent to Apple and their $2/day Chinese factory workers. Apple, one of the most valuable companies in the world, feels their factory employees should be grateful to have jobs. Profit sharing, for a product they build? A foreign concept apparently. All goes back to greed.

[JTrue]

37 minutes ago, slick1ru2 said:

Deflection isn't an answer.  Our college athletics system is equivalent to Apple and their $2/day Chinese factory workers. Apple, one of the most valuable companies in the world, feels their factory employees should be grateful to have jobs. Profit sharing, for a product they build? A foreign concept apparently. All goes back to greed.

I'm not deflecting at all. I was extremely greatfullto have someone pay me a college education I couldn't afford for throwing a baseball. But you aren't so subtly implying I was stupid for thinking this was a fair trade. You have my answer. My question to you is, when did you tell your coach it was ******** and you weren't taking the offer?

[JTrue]

Or are you the guy who doesn't have any kids but has an endless stream of opinions on how to raise them?

[slick1ru2]

Are you the guy that doesn't care who's exploited or who's life is ruined by debilitating injury as long as you get to watch sports?

[JTrue]

1 hour ago, slick1ru2 said:

Are you the guy that doesn't care who's exploited or who's life is ruined by debilitating injury as long as you get to watch sports?

Nope. I'm the guy who formed his opinion by actually playing sports. You must be the other guy.