NCAA "Amateurism" Strikes Again

So this case is dumb, but the NCAA has to worry about the Bamas of the world who abuse every crack in every rule.

If the NCAA didn't stop this, next year every Bama player would have a twitch and YouTube channel and be on Patreon.
 
Someone with more internets than me should post a meme or something from that one episode of South Park that talked about this.
 
Also this is free advertising for him so he might actually be able to quit school thanks to NCAA.
 
Diseqc said:
So this case is dumb, but the NCAA has to worry about the Bamas of the world who abuse every crack in every rule.

If the NCAA didn't stop this, next year every Bama player would have a twitch and YouTube channel and be on Patreon.
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As well they should, just like any amateur resident of the United States can do, and just like any other college student at UCF can do. They should all be allowed to sign Nike deals and everything.

The NCAA's "amateurism" crusade is a $3.4 billion exercise in hypocrisy.
 
One of these years there's going to be a boycott, and we're gonna go half a season without college football.
 
ThisIsAtlanta said:
As well they should, just like any amateur resident of the United States can do, and just like any other college student at UCF can do. They should all be allowed to sign Nike deals and everything.

The NCAA's "amateurism" crusade is a $3.4 billion exercise in hypocrisy.
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That's how parity dies.
 
Just curious - what if a GT prof, while working at GT, came up with some invention that money could be made from?
 
ThisIsAtlanta said:
Parity in football < parity under the law. NCAA athletes are second class citizens because of the cartel that threatens their future livelihoods if they exercise their rights.
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Plenty of people have non-competes or something similar as a stipulation of their job. A college athlete isn't really that different. Even the NFL has a salary cap that depresses player wages to encourage parity.

I'm all for them receiving a bigger portion of the revenue they help generate, but not for an open bidding war for the best players.
 
Diseqc said:
Plenty of people have non-competes or something similar as a stipulation of their job. A college athlete isn't really that different. Even the NFL has a salary cap that depresses player wages to encourage parity.

I'm all for them receiving a bigger portion of the revenue they help generate, but not for an open bidding war for the best players.
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Oh so they are employees?
 
ThisIsAtlanta said:
"Non profit"

LOL
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The reason that people are so butthurt about college amateurism is because college football is a billion dollar industry with that money going to coaches, broadcasting companies, bowl organizers and random others. It is TV money that has created this monster. The NCAA actually tried to prevent this from happening and they got sued. Ironically everyone now blames the NCAA.

These larger colleges formed the College Football Association and tried to negotiate television contracts, until the NCAA advised the colleges that they would be banned from all NCAA competitions, not just in football. The Board of Regents of the University of Oklahoma and the University of Georgia Athletic Association sued to force the NCAA to stop the practice. The Supreme Court held that the NCAA's actions were a restraint of trade and ruled for the universities.
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ramblin' wagon said:
The reason that people are so butthurt about college amateurism is because college football is a billion dollar industry with that money going to coaches, broadcasting companies, bowl organizers and random others. It is TV money that has created this monster. The NCAA actually tried to prevent this from happening and they got sued. Ironically everyone now blames the NCAA.
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The NCAA was wrong then, and it's wrong now. Their intent in a case long ago is hardly material at this point, because there's no going back to the environment of 1906, when amateurism was plausible, or even 1984, when the ship had already sailed on the issue. There's nothing left about the sport that's amateur in nature, and the NCAA is succeeding at nothing other than protecting profits for one group at the expense of another when it tells some destitute kid he isn't allowed to profit from his own likeness, as if he's some sort of employee, and isn't entitled to any of the legal protections that he otherwise would be if that were actually true. The NCAA takes the blame for this because it's the entity that is directly involved. Make no mistake, everyone who blames the NCAA blames the networks and the conferences and the schools and the bowls just as much. That there are other interested parties doesn't absolve the enforcer.
 
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