Just happened. Talia Tagoliavoa, QB at Maryland petitioned for a 6th yr to plat at Miami(fl) for 2024. Lost.
Anyone who pays THAT kind of money to watch "college teams" needs their head examined.
They can try but like the US women’s soccer team it was proven in court that they were overpaid. Didn’t work out.
Yeah but you know if Colleges have to pass out 22 mil to players in the past and start paying players now, the college will try every way to make up that money. Football, basketball tickets will go up. Other sports not so much as they do not make money in the first place. Football and Basketball will have to continue to carry the load for the athletic budgets. Only way to stop that would be to make the football team a representative of KENTUCKY and basketball but no totally associated with said university. In other words (Semi pro teams, which is what they all now are) and the team sends the players to the university as part of the package, but are not associated.
You ask what world I live in?
The beauty of college sport was the amateur status ... playing the sport while receiving an education as remuneration. Chasing immediate money without building a sustainable future career path ... the perfect illustration of foolish greed. This entire approach is so completely flawed it's just unimaginable. This is the result of stupid people doing what stupid people do.
Not that I necessarily care… but petitioning for an extra year is different than legally challenging limits on eligibility in a new landscape where players are essentially paid employees, and they and/or universities can theoretically argue highly desirable “employees” cannot be prevented from remaining on the payroll for as long as they like, or as long as the university wishes to keep them absent having a better “employee” available to replace them.
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It's obvious that he knows Smooth (maybe same person?), but it's like he comes here roughly every 4 months to make a post.
There are probably quite a few classes and degrees that are just as much of a scam as amateur athletics.
The argument isn't about which is more scammy. The point I'm making is that schools haven't gotten further and further away from why they were in the first place: education.
Now that they're getting paid OUT IN THE OPEN, let's see a college basketball video game again. The market is there for it.
College is a huge ripoff these days anyway. If I was graduating high school now, there's no way I would attend.
The cost of both tuition and housing for college is absolutely staggering. It is insane when many intro level courses at some schools are delivered online/on demand with office hours via a Yammer/slack channel or teams live chat. Almost all of the lectures can be pre-recorded and used for multiple sections.
You’re not wrong. The courts did their job in defense of the pay structure. However, the USSF (similar to how the universities will react) restructured the bargaining agreement to pay the both similarly in salaries. There are other things to consider, that will also come into play, such as success and revenue/ticket sells. In the case of soccer, those are % based.
I don't get this greed talk.
This is addressing two posts. One above the person said there are no eligibility constraints in the NBA? So they are back to allowing kids out of high school again or still following the one year since high school graduation and at least 19 years old?
I think this is exactly what will happen. Everything is just getting out of hand and I think you will see all this go belly up. Might be a good thing to happen.
