Originally posted by tgf9898:
Originally posted by FrancoBevo:
The NCAA need to hold their ground period. These student athletes need to understand that the only reason i pay even a nickel to watch them play is because they are wearing my school's colors. And that is true for every single person that plunks down any cash to support college sports. The schools have paid the 100's of millions to get it to the point where they are getting a return on investment and now the students want to cry foul. I'd call their bluff. Let them go build their own stadiums, hire their own coaches and negotiate their own TV deals and then get a fan base that plunk down the cash to come watch them play. Good luck with that by the way.....
If they continue down this path, they will destroy college sports. There will 25 schools that will be able to afford football which will eliminate scholarship opportunities for 100's of other students that will no longer get them at places like Northern Illinois or other places like that.
People who support this are just incredibly naive idealists who can't get past the misguided concept of "fair" - it's no different than the guy who never quits bitching about his pay, that dude can always go start his own company and pay himself whatever he wants......funny how that person rarely does....
No. It's very different than a guy bitching about his pay. That guy is legally entitled to sell his services to another company that pays more if his current one underpays him because we have a functioning capitalist economy in which indentured servitude is legally barred.
The NCAA is telling people from whose efforts it's members are signing multi-hundred million dollar broadcasting deals that they have to work with severe wage restrictions and give up their right to sign contracts using even their own names and likenesses in order to participate in a system over which it holds a de facto monopoly. Microsoft and Google can't get together and agree to drastic joint limits on pay of their new software people and if they do, then: 1. the software people are entitled to and should be bitching about their pay, and 2. the Microsoft and Google people who made that decision will (and should) go to prison b/c collusion of that type is both a civil and a criminal (a felony) violation. It is your position that will destroy college sports b/c the current system will not (and should not) meet legal challenges. It is a monopoly and a very greedy one at that.
The only people anti-capitalist and anti-college sports in this deal are the people who think universities are going to able to continue paying coaches $5 mil per year and signing these huge TV deals while agreeing as a group to starve their labor. This system is not legal capitalism and free market. It is the opposite. If the NCAA digs in as you advocate what is coming is going to be forced down their throats by the law--and that is total, unrestricted, free market, recruit goes to the highest bidder competition. That will in fact ruin college athletics forever and it will have been the myopic, beat your chest, unwilling to compromise, pig-I'm-going-to-keep-it all view expressed above, that will have caused it.
This post was edited on 3/30 9:55 PM by tgf9898
