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Subject: Re: The End Of The College Sports World As We Knew It Author: observer [ Next Thread | Previous Thread | Next Message | Previous Message ] Date Posted: 14:37:06 05/22/24 Wed In reply to: M3 's message, "The End Of The College Sports World As We Knew It" on 11:06:32 05/22/24 Wed Actually, this is an incredible hedge around Title IX rules holding back football spending. Because it's not the university investing in individual player NIL, but rather private capital - they don't have to offer the same $$ to the Libero as the QB. There will be a left of center AG who will try to go to the mattresses against it at some point for equity purposes. This is all because of the law of unintended consequences. All those who cried about the "poor athletes" and created the NIL pathway never saw this coming. And of course, they should have. And now they have no way to put the genie back in the bottle. Oh, well. [ Next Thread | Previous Thread | Next Message | Previous Message ]

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[> Subject: Re: The End Of The College Sports World As We Knew It Author: RedWin [ Edit | View ] Date Posted: 15:30:53 05/22/24 Wed It's really a sad deal all the way around as the entire purpose of NCAA athletics is to get an education and play your sport. This could have all been avoided if the NCAA had passed common sense stipends for student-athletes in need. So for example, if you're on heavy financial aid, students are receiving aid for everything from tuition, room & board, and a little spending money. The NCAA should have approved say a monthly stipend for student-athletes based on need. Meaning if your parents are upper income, then you do not qualify. Back to academics, I think something like less than 5% of major college athletes make the pros, so what happens to the other 95% who graduate with a worthless degree or don't graduate at all??? Even Alabama who sends a big number to the NFL every year, the majority of the players on that roster will never play an NFL game. What happens to them at age 23?

[> [> Subject: Re: The End Of The College Sports World As We Knew It Author: observer [ Edit | View ] Date Posted: 15:42:49 05/22/24 Wed Let's be honest. College Athletics has always been about marketing the institutions to its alumni, donors and potential applicants. Even the Ivies, which invented college sports, saw the rah-rah aspect as being important at the time. Look through the NY Times archives online about the 1878 Columbia boat that won Henley on the River Thames... Nothing has burnished the applicant pools of Duke, Michigan and Stanford - especially from kids in the Megalopolis of the I 95 Corridor - as much as the fact that the students not only can get a good education, but also have a campus life quotient that is not available at the old private clubs of yore. State schools like Texas and North Carolina are considered among the best in the nation, no doubt helped by football and basketball visibility. Small schools like Gonzaga and Loyola Chicago have experienced tremendous growth in applications (and concomitant decrease in admissions rate) based on their hoops successes in recent years. Success in sports is great for marketing. And anyone who doesn't understand that is fooling himself. Now, playing college squash or rowing in the lightweight boat, that's a different animal altogether.