Lets give them another thing to do. Maybe they can give it to the NCAA Clearinghouse, they seem to have nothing to do. Another take on this, how much is spent... http://deadspin.com/5976391/sec-sch...her-ways-the-ncaa-is-a-bonfire-for-your-money
They can't stop the tomfoolery now when it is expressly forbidden, what in the blue hell makes you think it will be easier if they make it legal. Really? You can't tell me that you are honestly thinking this is a good idea.
Yeah, I really am. It's flawed, but it's better than blatant exploitation. And I'm not an expert on these things. I'm no beaurocrat. Somebody somewhere could take a hard look at this and devise a system that works. Seriously, even if it's OUTLAWING the for-profit sale of these kids likenesses and property, something needs to be done about it. In no other business is it permissible to use somebody's likeness and autograph for profit without the person's explicit written permission. Yet here, it's cool. How in the Hell is "the NCAA couldn't even regulate toilet paper consumption" an excuse for ripping these people off? I mean, it's true. The NCAA is dickless when it comes to these kind of things. But does that give us the right to exploit people for our own monetary gain?
@Attack Tiger I've said it before, if you are going to try to pay these kids it is going to get ugly. It is a giant headache to try and figure out and once you start it, it will just snowball and guess where most of the cost will be shuffled off to?
I've said it before. These guys should be paid for their time in practice just like any other student worker at LSU. I start freshmen at minimum wage and if they work out well they get raises and can be making 10 or 12 bucks an hour as a senior. Our graduate assistants make $12K to $20 for part-time work in a 9-month academic year. Most of these folks also are on scholarships and other assistance. Many of these players come from low-income families and paying them a couple of hundred dollars a week for gas or to go out on a date or order a friggin' pizza is no big deal and it damn sure doesn't make them "professionals". It will help keep them from taking $100 handshakes from boosters or to be selling jerseys and autographs just to have some spending money. Or hanging out with flashy non-student low-lifes that spend money on them.
But therein lies the problem; you simply can't regulate something like this. What would happen is that obscene sums of money would be changing hands under the guise of "selling autographs", and certain schools would somehow always be able to offer more for its star players' Hancocks. It'd be like me selling you a $5,000 duffel bag that just happened to have a pair of BCSNCG tickets inside of it. Since there is no way to regulate it, the only solution is to close any and all potential loopholes by forbidding it completely. The other sticking point is that the NCAA has proven time and again that it is completely incompetent in enforcing even its existing, very simple rules. Scott Paterno actually wrote a really good op-ed piece a few years ago on the whole idea of player payment. I'll see if I can find it.
get What about prop 48...if we paid one set of athletes we would have to them all and lots of schools couldn't afford to pay the women's golf team for practice time. Life is not fair and every time someone has good intentions to level the playing field and make everything fair it seems to eventually be taken over by some greedy group that oversees the "system"!!!
