NCAA getting hammered on multiple fronts

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We're going to see very broad changes really soon. NCAA is getting hammered from the courts, unionizing, from the Power conferences, and now from Congress.

Heard one Senator tell the NCAA president, "we do indeed have jurisdiction over the NCAA, and if a bill was presented here, proposing to disband the NCAA, what reason would you give me to keep me from voting for it"

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How ironic, that the same institution that has so handsomely profited off the back of football and basketball athletes, and seen to it that those athletes get so little (comparatively)...and looking to HAMMER programs like UT (because Bruce Pearl invited a recruit to a cookout)...is itself now being pummeled!
 
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The NCAA's "because we said so" justification for how they operate is going to quickly disappear.
 
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Congress should just disband the NCAA altogether. It is NOT an AMATEUR endeavor. With the massive profits made from TV revenues alone, it's a PROFESSION.

In my line of work, there are expensive Commercial versions of software and then EDU (Education) versions, for much less. The main difference is you breach the license terms by using the EDUCATION versions for COMMERCIAL gain.

The NCAA has effectively been using the EDU version to make (BILLIONS in) COMMERCIAL profits, as it were...and they are now busted for it. Hiding behind the AMATEUR label to give the athletes a relatively small silver of the overall pie, that the ATHLETES EARN...not the NCAA execs.
 
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VOLorNuttin said:
Congress should just disband the NCAA altogether. It is NOT an AMATEUR endeavor. With the massive profits made from TV revenues alone, it's a PROFESSION.

In my line of work, there are expensive Commercial versions of software and then EDU (Education) versions, for much less. The main difference is you breach the license terms by using the EDUCATION versions for COMMERCIAL gain.

The NCAA has effectively been using the EDU version to make (BILLIONS in) COMMERCIAL profits, as it were...and they are now busted for it. Hiding behind the AMATEUR label to give the athletes a relatively small silver of the overall pie, that the ATHLETES EARN...not the NCAA execs.
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What kind of software if u don't mind me asking? I ask because I do autodesk, and your post reminded me of that.
 
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I wish the government would stay out of it. Very little good ever comes from government involvement.

That said, many of these Senators made very good points.
 
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bamawriter said:
I wish the government would stay out of it. Very little good ever comes from government involvement.

That said, many of these Senators made very good points.
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Maybe the first thing I've ever agreed with you on. That being said, the NCAA is an obstruction to free markets.
 
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VOLorNuttin said:
We're going to see very broad changes really soon. NCAA is getting hammered from the courts, unionizing, from the Power conferences, and now from Congress.

Heard one Senator tell the NCAA president, "we do indeed have jurisdiction over the NCAA, and if a bill was presented here, proposing to disband the NCAA, what reason would you give me to keep me from voting for it"

Live Breaking News Video | Streaming Video Coverage | Fox News

How ironic, that the same institution that has so handsomely profited off the back of football and basketball athletes, and seen to it that those athletes get so little (comparatively)...and looking to HAMMER programs like UT (because Bruce Pearl invited a recruit to a cookout)...is itself now being pummeled!
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I'm no fan of the NCAA. However, allow me to say, unequivocally..... F the Senate.
 
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The SEC ought to withdraw from NCAA and run its own business. The NCAA skims a lot of cream off the top for very little in return these days.
 
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Maybe the senate ought to worry about 17 trillion in debt and a illegal immigration crisis and not college athletics.
 
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NCAA only has the power because the schools gave them the power. The senate only has the power because we put them there. We made our own monsters. Seems like the senate and NCAA are one in the same in many ways.
 
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Destroy the NCAA, you destroy Amatuer Athletics

I say stop handing out scholarships to kids who can barely pass HS and give them to kids that want to go to college to learn

Let the NFL create their own farm system

Sports scholarships were meant to give a way for kids to earn a free college degree. Let's get back to that and part of the problem is solved
 
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