Coaches' salaries and NIL

[chito_and_leon]

The real problem is that courts are basically disallowing leagues from enforcing rules that encourage fair and equitable competition amongst organizations. Imagine if the NFL or NBA couldn’t make rules on player trades, maximum salaries, salary caps, eligibility, etc….

These kids want to be paid like professionals but want to be treated like amateurs. Pay them, but make them pay for their own education. Fine them when they’re late for practice or miss a work out. Cut them in season or send them to a poorly paid practice squad if they’re not performing. No more mandatory “athletics fees” coming from student tuition which funds athletics programs across the country.


I don’t have a problem with pro sports… I have a problem with pro sports being tied to academic institutions and the quality of competition being miserable because the league can’t enforce a rule to save their lives, and “pro” players still being immature and untrustworthy.

I think the NCAA or whoever represents the schools could solve all these problems by acknowledging that players are employees and having them unionize, then the NCAA could enforce whatever rules it could negotiate with the union, just like it does with people who work in the bookstore. But the NCAA doesn't want to say the players are employees. There is a middle ground here. I think the NCAA/whoever wants to make the situation as bad as possible to force congress to pass laws, which I suspect the NCAA/whoever thinks will be highly favorable to schools and unfavorable to players.

 

[astonmartin708]

I think the NCAA or whoever represents the schools could solve all these problems by acknowledging that players are employees and having them unionize, then the NCAA could enforce whatever rules it could negotiate with the union, just like it does with people who work in the bookstore. But the NCAA doesn't want to say the players are employees. There is a middle ground here. I think the NCAA/whoever wants to make the situation as bad as possible to force congress to pass laws, which I suspect the NCAA/whoever thinks will be highly favorable to schools and unfavorable to players.

If you're going to call them employees you really need to just completely sever the financial ties between the athletics org and the university. The university can license iconography to the athletics clubs and lease the stadium / arena space to them. It would be the end of college athletics for 50-60% of the NCAA, but it would completely solve title 9 problems.

Make the big hitters (Ohio State, Texas, Florida, USC, Michigan) actually compete with the NFL and NBA, not just treated with kid gloves. If you want to be a pro, be a pro.... if you don't then suck it up. Also, if the NFL wants to treat college football like a farm system, then they need to be paying for it.

 

[TulsaRulzOSUdrools]

communism!li

Like media rights and such?

 

[drboobay]

Like media rights and such?

Equal distribution of wealth.

 

[Oak775]

Add to the list, short shortsightedness. No NFL, an insignificant amount of NIL burnt through by the time they run out of eligibility, and NO DEGREE, all of which in the end leads to dead end jobs for most or back to the streets at worst. The current system is doing a huge disservice to most of these young people.

There’s no longer a career in pumping gas at the gas station. Reality. It’s a hard tough life…