College Sports Insanity

[72 Roo]

Yesterday OSU announced how it intends to spend its $20.5 M in paying its athletes. $18M will go to four sports: football, men's basketball, women's basketball and women's volleyball. 75% of that will go to football. The remaining 25% will be allocated to the three remaining sports. The $2.5 M left from the total $20.5 M allowed will be used to support 90 new scholarships that will be allocated amongst the remaining 32 varsity sports as needed.  OSU expects the money paid to athletes to grow as the NCAA has said the $20.5 M in revenue sharing will grow in succeeding years. 

 

What is next? Athletes unionizing? Payment is considered income? Athletes employ professional advisors ala agents? College sports continue on a slow but steady decline in the eyes of the average fan because their favorite school cannot compete or even have the illusion of competing. I see the top 30 schools doing well. The rest will not survive as we know it today.

[ZipCat]

Let's be real here: College Athletics WAS NEVER competitive, it was always the illusion of competitiveness to favor a class of overpaid managers who pad their resumes while collecting 6 and 7 figure salaries, generating billions in profits  "non-profit revenue"  on the backs of unpaid college athletes.

 

Yes, the athletes should be paid.
Yes, the athletes probably should unionize.
Yes, Millions of Dollars should be considered income, and yes they should pay taxes.
College athletes already employ professional agents, and have for decades. 

 

Where have you been to not know that only a handful of top schools "do well" why the rest are just there to feed the trough for everyone else? That's literally been true for the entirety of me following college athletics before athletes started getting paid.

 

Why TF does everyone have a problem with people sharing in the profits they generate? It's a really fucked up mentality.

Edited July 12 by ZipCat