The NCAA Is Under Seige

[slick1ru2]

This is just one of the articles mentioned in piece done in the current SI issue about how the NCAA is under attack from all angles including the EA Sports lawsuit. Basically the college institutions are making billions on unpaid student athletes.

 

http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2011/10/the-shame-of-college-sports/308643/

 

The Shame of College Sports

          

A litany of scandals in recent years have made the
corruption of college sports constant front-page news. We profess
outrage each time we learn that yet another student-athlete has been
taking money under the table. But the real scandal is the very structure
of college sports, wherein student-athletes generate billions of
dollars for universities and private companies while earning nothing for
themselves. Here, a leading civil-rights historian makes the case for
paying college athletes—and reveals how a spate of lawsuits working
their way through the courts could destroy the NCAA...

 

[charsibb]

Sooner or later, they're going to have to admit that football and basketball are different from golf and swimming.

[CanesFan77]

Hopefully this is the beginning of the end.

[TrujilloBull2013]

so a free college education, room and board for 4+ years, free state of the art health care, and extensive on the job training and potential  job placement is not enough? 

[charsibb]

Hopefully this is the beginning of the end.

 

of ... what?

[charsibb]

so a free college education, room and board for 4+ years, free state of the art health care, and extensive on the job training and potential  job placement is not enough? 

 

Not when you're essentially the farm leagues for the NFL and NBA

 

For golf or swimming, it's more than enough

[Gismo]

So NCAA players entitled to money? 

[slick1ru2]

so a free college education, room and board for 4+ years, free state of the art health care, and extensive on the job training and potential  job placement is not enough? 

 

Not when you're essentially the farm leagues for the NFL and NBA

 

For golf or swimming, it's more than enough

That's right. We are talking billions of dollars, not the thousands of a scholarship. Read the article. Buy this month's SI.

Edited February 9, 2013 by slick1ru2

[charsibb]

So NCAA players entitled to money? 

 

No less so than the Durham Bulls or Tampa Tarpons...

[NewEnglandBull]

College players should not get paid. Jesus, college football has finally become the NFL with this playoff crap now we want to pay them? It saddens me.