Each State, case, player, program, school, and situation is different, which is why you have agencies, judicial review and bodies to make determinations. What people incorrectly try to do is say one size fits all and that is not how it works.
I disagree with the notion that a scholarship, in itself is "compensation", I think it would depend on the what I said above. The problem is, people are looking for a collective, which is what the schools have done by signing what I believe to be RICO type agreements. Of course, the NCAA has made statements that the schools are "compensating" the player.... threw the schools right under the bus.
The schools created the problem, the schools can easily correct the problem, however, why would someone want to acknowledge a problem when doing so will severely impact their revenue stream? The mob does not work that way.
I don't see this as an attack on scholarships at all, its an attack on how these schools operate. Try this nonsense in any other industry or even on the coaches and see what happens.
It sounds to me LSU-SIU, so jmo, that you don't have a problem with any of it at all, you just see a weakness that is exploitable and that has opened up the NCAA as a whole, both entity and individuals to lawsuits. Again I don't see the problem of the NCAA 'setting' the value of the scholarship, it should be full cost, but for each institution that varies. As much as I love TN, a scholarship there is worth $23,000 a year, give or take. Northwestern is $69,000 or there abouts. I don't how they are 'setting prices/colluding' when the value changes per school. Now if said student athlete takes that $69,000 and only gets a $23,000, or less, education out of it that is on the student, not the school or NCAA.
As far as these schools 'making' millions of dollars they aren't lining the administration's pockets with that money, I am not naive so yes some is padding someones pay check not involved in the AD. They take that money and invest it in other student athletes who otherwise wouldn't have the chance to have that hyphen student label, such as tennis, soccer or other sports. It works the same way in the real world, so don't give me that 'try this in any other business' bs. Anybody that is a part of a professional organization, I am working towards becoming an Architect so for me its the AIA, each business agency sets a minimum a person employeed in that field has to be paid. Now it varies on any number of reasons, including where you are working, I am making under 40k in ATL, but someone with the same experience in California is likely making 50k+, why because of cost of living. That is exactly what the scholarship is, so IF college athletics is a business it isn't colluding any more than any one else. Like i said i make less than 40k a year, a more than $16 an hour, yet my firm bills my time to the client for $60 an hour. So I am bringing in way more money than I ever see, just like the student athletes, it goes to cover overhead and pad my bosses wallet. So I see nothing wrong with it, but I am all for changing some of the 'legalese' in how the scholarships work and how schools define STUDENT-athletes if it stops the lawyers and saves the game. Pay them no, give them much longer lasting medical attention, full meals, full value of scholarship, better testing and better advice heck yeah. The system (NCAA) isn't broke it just ain't perfect.
I would also like to see how fast the players would go scrambling back to the way it is now when they have to pay taxes on the scholarships, and what happens when they blow through the 23,000 bucks on food, video games, women and cars and can't PAY TO GO TO SCHOOL (HMMM that doesn't sound like a business) and all the additional care they are given. Which I bet isn't in Obamacare so the schools will have to pay the fines there and a dozen other problems that don't exist now because they aren't employees, they are students.
I am not saying I have all the answers, but until someone can make me see the problems it isn't time to tear the system down, which is exactly what is going to happen if all this nonsense goes through.
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