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Should semipro/college players be paid, or allowed to sell their stuff? (NIL)

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ScriptOhio said:
The POTUS weighs in:

Obama says what does frustrate him, though, is seeing college coaches and the NCAA making huge amounts of money while an athlete gets banished after getting a tattoo or free use of a car. He says that's unfair.

Entire article: http://espn.go.com/college-sports/s...nt-barack-obama-compensation-college-athletes

I agree with that one about the tattoo.
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I know I'm nit-picking here, but no one has been "banished" after getting a tattoo. The Ohio State players sold their memorabilia for those tattoos. But the guys who pay for their tattoos - no one is getting banished.
 
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The College Football Playoff Generated So Much Goddamn Money

"If you want to judge college football’s first season that decided a national champion via a four-team playoff based on how much revenue the new system produced for the schools and conferences that participated in it, then the whole thing was an astronomical success.

According to a report released by the NCAA, the combined payout from this year’s 39 bowl games surpassed $500 million, and increase of $200 million from the money that was generated by the 2013-2014 bowl season. Most of this money came from the new TV deals that put a premium price on the rights to broadcast the national championship game and the bowl games that hosted the semi-final games of the four-team playoff.

Half a billion dollars! That’s so much fucking money! Too bad the idea of paying college football players just isn’t economically feasible."

Dipshits at hyperbole-driven sports sites continue to ignore the Pandora's box that playing player would open. The schools paid $100m to participate, so the conference and schools split $400m. The conferences' share gets split equally between the member schools, and if I'm not mistaken I think the schools themselves also have to share their monies with their conference brethren. So, with 128 schools splitting $400m they'd get #3.125m each. Even if that money goes into the schools' athletic budget, depending upon the school it would not it itself cover the expenses of the athletic departments. Look at schools like Ohio State that pay their staff a shit-ton and have world-class facilities. IMO, the success of the playoffs only helps every school in FBS...
 
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MililaniBuckeye said:
The College Football Playoff Generated So Much Goddamn Money

"If you want to judge college football’s first season that decided a national champion via a four-team playoff based on how much revenue the new system produced for the schools and conferences that participated in it, then the whole thing was an astronomical success.

According to a report released by the NCAA, the combined payout from this year’s 39 bowl games surpassed $500 million, and increase of $200 million from the money that was generated by the 2013-2014 bowl season. Most of this money came from the new TV deals that put a premium price on the rights to broadcast the national championship game and the bowl games that hosted the semi-final games of the four-team playoff.

Half a billion dollars! That’s so much fucking money! Too bad the idea of paying college football players just isn’t economically feasible."

Dip[Mark May]s at hyperbole-driven sports sites continue to ignore the Pandora's box that playing player would open. The schools paid $100m to participate, so the conference and schools split $400m. The conferences' share gets split equally between the member schools, and if I'm not mistaken I think the schools themselves also have to share their monies with their conference brethren. So, with 128 schools splitting $400m they'd get #3.125m each. Even if that money goes into the schools' athletic budget, depending upon the school it would not it itself cover the expenses of the athletic departments. Look at schools like Ohio State that pay their staff a [Mark May]-ton and have world-class facilities. IMO, the success of the playoffs only helps every school in FBS...
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How much of that $500M was caused by hyping up the first-ever playoff? How much of it was caused by having Ohio State play Alabama (two media juggernauts) in the Sugar Bowl, or the media story of the Tallahassee Criminoles playing against ESPN's latest lovechild in the Rose Bowl? My point is that 2014-2015 may have been a fluke; next year the dominoes may not line up so well and $500M may not be attained again for a while. I think that if someone is going to use specific numbers to make his argument, he ought to either go with averages or trends, and not so much a single point for statistics.
 
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Zurp said:
How much of that $500M was caused by hyping up the first-ever playoff? How much of it was caused by having Ohio State play Alabama (two media juggernauts) in the Sugar Bowl, or the media story of the Tallahassee Criminoles playing against ESPN's latest lovechild in the Rose Bowl? My point is that 2014-2015 may have been a fluke; next year the dominoes may not line up so well and $500M may not be attained again for a while. I think that if someone is going to use specific numbers to make his argument, he ought to either go with averages or trends, and not so much a single point for statistics.
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I still think the bowls, and especially the playoff, will continue to make a shit-ton of money.
 
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kujirakira said:
Even if the athletes don't opt to unionize?
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BigWoof31 said:
Who knows what happens then?
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Northwestern actually knows; so far basically nothing happens for the players, but the lawyers make money.

Full coverage of Northwestern football’s unionization effort

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See today's article in the
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http://dailynorthwestern.com/sports/northwestern-nlrb-union-effort/





 
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Michigan DB Jabrill Peppers says he can't 'eat right' on NCAA checks

Add another name to the list of college athletes unhappy with how much food their stipend checks can buy -- or rather, how much it can't.

Michigan sophomore defensive back and former five-star recruit Jabrill Peppers tweeted Tuesday evening that he was "about to eat my first meal of the day" -- a bowl of ramen noodles. Over the course of several tweets stretching into Wednesday morning, Peppers made it clear where he put the blame for that situation:

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PeppyPep @JabrillPeppers
Idk how the NCAA thinks we supposed to eat right with these lil indentured servant checks they give us..I Should've stayed in the dorms smh

8:06 PM - 26 May 2015

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PeppyPep @JabrillPeppers
I'm about to eat my first meal of the day & that's Oodles and noodles smh

8:17 PM - 26 May 2015

Entire article: http://www.cbssports.com/collegefoo...eppers-says-he-cant-eat-right-on-ncaas-checks

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ScriptOhio said:
Michigan DB Jabrill Peppers says he can't 'eat right' on NCAA checks

Add another name to the list of college athletes unhappy with how much food their stipend checks can buy -- or rather, how much it can't.

Michigan sophomore defensive back and former five-star recruit Jabrill Peppers tweeted Tuesday evening that he was "about to eat my first meal of the day" -- a bowl of ramen noodles. Over the course of several tweets stretching into Wednesday morning, Peppers made it clear where he put the blame for that situation:

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PeppyPep @JabrillPeppers
Idk how the NCAA thinks we supposed to eat right with these lil indentured servant checks they give us..I Should've stayed in the dorms smh

8:06 PM - 26 May 2015

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PeppyPep @JabrillPeppers
I'm about to eat my first meal of the day & that's Oodles and noodles smh

8:17 PM - 26 May 2015

Entire article: http://www.cbssports.com/collegefoo...eppers-says-he-cant-eat-right-on-ncaas-checks

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Obviously he's not on the same meal plan as Green.
 
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