Should College Athletes be Paid?

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OrangeUaVol2

OrangeUaVol2

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1. Where will the money come from?
2. Who will get paid and how much? (more money for better performance)
3. What happens when an athlete does not preform as expected or is dismissed from the team?
4. Will there be limits on how the money can be spent? (i.e. alcohol, drugs, etc.)

I personally feel the monies they recieve to attend the university should be enough. At Tennessee this equates to roughly 25k per year for Out of State, if they do not attend summer classes.
 
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Can you say bad check, with the obligatory call home, can you deposit money in my acct. to cover a check I wrote. Please!
 
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OrangeUaVol2 said:
Can you say bad check, with the obligatory call home, can you deposit money in my acct. to cover a check I wrote. Please!
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1) they are already paid
2) they have the opportunity to fill out a fafsa just like the rest of the students. If their family doesnt have money to help them out, they will get a pell grant, or other federally subsidized student loans.
3) and did I say, they already get paid? They get full tuition, full room and board (rent and food stipend if they live off campus, and nobody is forcing them out of the dorms!!)
4) Books and fees are paid, everything they could ever need.

As I said before, if mom and dad cant afford to help them out a little, get a student loan or a pell grant.


Im talking from experience, not just out my backside. The current arrangement is MORE than fair.


EDIT: and how many times does this subject get rehashed here?
 
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Absolutely. Men's Basketball and Football players should be paid without question. Title 9 insures that it will never be possible.
 
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They make the University a lot of money. It's hard to say they don't deserve something. However, they are already receiving enough as it is, in my opinion.
 
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The most valid point for extra compensation that I have heard is this:

1) Students are required to pay year round to keep off campus housing, (if they choose to live off campus) but the housing allowance from tNCAA only covers them for the school year.

My solution is: either a) take summer classes or b) live on campus. Living off campus is optional. if you take that option, you pay.


2) If players have problems like flat tires, car problems, moped wont start :), they have to come up with the money to pay for these things. That can be tough for some.

My Solution: 1) that is why you have parents. 2) walk like the rest of the students 3) toughen up buttercup



Overall, I think the system we have in place is best. Not perfect, but best. And then they need to find a way to enforce it.

I wouldnt mind if each school had a rainyday fund, provided by tNCAA, that the AD can dip into to help kids when there are problems like new tires, grandpa's funeral, etc. But it would have to be closely regulated or it becomes SMU all over again
 
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No, but somethings like athletic scholarships covering more, or more than a single year, and such would be good


There is a middle ground, that's where it needs to be worked at
 
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Give them an additional stipend, so that they don't have to sell their tickets to take their girlfriends out to dinner or buy tickets to a concert, but the money comes from the NCAA and/or the conferences, not from the schools or (shudder) boosters.

College football is break-even at too many schools as it is. If only the football-rich schools can help athletes by paying them "market value" (whatever that turns out to be), it will just concentrate talent and attention and TV contracts and all the rest at fewer and fewer schools, until we have a de facto semi-pro system at two dozen schools and little more than club football everywhere else.

The NCAA and the big-time conferences are making plenty of money off these kids, and they can afford to give some back.

Big-time college sports is an apprenticeship system. They're given room and board, tuition and books, coaching, transportation, exposure to other high-caliber athletes, uniforms, fields, and on and on as training in exchange for their labor. So it's not that they're not paid, because they are, but I do think they deserve a bigger slice of the pie.
 
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Rasputin_Vol said:
Not many. But then again, 100k people didn't pay $100 to see me take a diff. eq. exam, either.
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Then pay the players more. I, personally, don't care. I wasn't smart enough to receive an academic scholarship so student loans paid for my higher education. If a player's market value is more then pay them more.

The problem that arises is how do you judge how much a football player from Western Kentucky receives compared to a player for the Vols. How to solve that problem is the key.
 
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Exile nailed it. More than anything, college athletics was founded on the basis of amateurism. But hes right, there are only a few dozen at most who could actually pay players, but I believe in fair play for all sports and schools. Gender as well.
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GatorBill said:
1) they are already paid
2) they have the opportunity to fill out a fafsa just like the rest of the students. If their family doesnt have money to help them out, they will get a pell grant, or other federally subsidized student loans.
3) and did I say, they already get paid? They get full tuition, full room and board (rent and food stipend if they live off campus, and nobody is forcing them out of the dorms!!)
4) Books and fees are paid, everything they could ever need.

As I said before, if mom and dad cant afford to help them out a little, get a student loan or a pell grant.


Im talking from experience, not just out my backside. The current arrangement is MORE than fair.


EDIT: and how many times does this subject get rehashed here?
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They should get pay, reason why...... The player make the state alot a money and they feed a alot of people....
 
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TennesseeFan07 said:
They make the University a lot of money. It's hard to say they don't deserve something. However, they are already receiving enough as it is, in my opinion.
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How much money does the lacrosse team, golf team or womens bowling team make for the university?

There's a few that make money for the school (fb, bb, wbb) but there a whoooole lot more that dont make a penny and the university has to cover all their schollys and expenses from the sports that make the money.
 
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orangepit said:
They should get pay, reason why...... The player make the state alot a money and they feed a alot of people....
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The average value of 5 years of college education is $100,000. That is pretty good pay right there. But then if you count in the fact that they will finish with a college degree, and a lot of those kids would not have one without the scholarship, then that is a pretty good deal.

A new york times article has valued the average college scholarship at 2mil dollars. That includes the cost of the schooling, and the value of the degree for their earning potential.

My kid is in school on an academic scholly, and I went to school on an academic and music scholarship, so I do not have any personal complaint on this issue.

I have coached at the High School level, and I have sent kids into college on scholarships that would have never went to college without them. Some would have went to a community college, some would have been living on the state the rest of their lives.

At the end of the day, the college athlete has to worry about paying for very few things:
1) cell phones
2) flat tires
3) a movie now and then?

There are pell grants and federal student loans available for kids who's families have financial issues. They just need to fill out the fafsa, like any other student.

THEY ARE GETTING PAID!!!


EDIT: and let me add this: The football and basketball players that are claiming that they should make more than the softball players, or crew team because they bring in more money. . . .well. .. THEY ARE making more than the other teams because they all have FULL scholarships, while most of the non revenue sports are splitting scholarships among multiple students.

They are getting paid and this argument is stupid.
 
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The problem is they are young and haven't really had any money, they don't know how to manage it. ( How can I be broke, I still have checks!)
 
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