marc tracy @marcatracy3h3 hours ago NCAA exec Oliver Luck and @JayBilas will debate the proposition "“College athletes should be allowed to be paid” next Tuesday. Will stream.
Yep, especially on this issue. Luck shouldve done the smart thing and just avoid this debate altogether. He wont stand a chance by repeating "its the way its always been" over and over. Or claiming theres no money, while schools sign deals worth hundreds of millions and the NCAA gets billions from the NCAA tournament.
What's interesting is how long this subject has been going on with no resolution in sight. I have a lot of games recorded over the years and earlier in the summer was trying to convert some of the older stuff off the aging VHS tapes to DVD and I saw a half-time segment from the very early 1990's discussing this very same thing. It really has been a topic that has raged on for decades in College athletics with the difference now being that you hear more grumbling from some of the student-athletes than you did in the past.
Btw Marc Isenberg @marcisenbergOct 11
Good article on Oliver Luck, who is the opposite of his boss Mark Emmert (e.g confident, tells the truth.) http://indy.st/1LpanGm
Love Fire. Incredible non partisan organisation that fights against "speech codes" and first amendment attacks by universities. If you've spent any time on a college campus in the last decade or two, you'd see that people with the "wrong views" politically are not just unpopular - their clubs are often disbanded by colleges, their signs are torn down, their speakers are banned from visiting campus, their members are subject to threats, vandalism, etc - and it goes all the way up to the school administrations. Increasingly, not holding the "correct opinion" on any of over a dozen different issues is termed as "violent" "oppressive" and "dangerous" to the student body.
So you get this crazy world where schools hold debates and, quite literally, there is only one side with any representatives on the stage because all the speakers who disagree with the favored view are banned from campus. It's terrifying, 1984-style insanity, and The Fire is fighting very hard to curb this awful trend.
Here's a great NYT piece on the topic for anyone interested:
