How much do you pay each player? Keep it simple and keep the money out of their hands. If a player chooses to take advantage of what they are given by schools they will make some good money. Collegiate sports are too complicated already, they would be no fun to follow if we were worried about contracts.
$200 a month sounds good. Just let the players live a normal live, go out for a pizza, go on dates, etc....
I'm gonna assume most posters here are middle-to-upper middle class. I'll be frank, I make a decent amount of money, and my parents are very well off. That being said, I think I would switch places with a third string LB on a full ride in a heartbeat. No questions asked.
Thus, unless society and college presidents force athletes to play, I don't think they should be payed. They have a choice, no? They don't have to play football, right? They play for a reason, right? I love sports,but the minute that athletes collectively say "**** the fans," I'll give it up. Athletes need paying fans more than fans need sports. I love sports, but I can live without it.
This is a pretty slippery slope. What next? High schoolers getting paid at the top basketball academies (i.e. LeBron James types) for making money for their schools? Room, board, tuition, books, and fees over four years is quite a nice chunk of change. What complicates this even more is that the NEB politicians proposing this bill only want to pay football players. I heard an interview with him on the radio and he couldn't properly justify not paying the other athletes in other sports. First he said that football was a more strenuous sport than basketball, swimming, track, etc. He said football players risk more severe injuries and put their bodies through more physical pain, and thus deserve to be paid for it. When the interviewers started to call him out on that silly reasoning, he backtracked and said that Cornhusker football brings in more money than any other sport, so THAT was why they deserve to be paid. When the originator of the idea doesn't have it well-thought out, well it doesn't sound like it would be a success, now does it?
Does anyone know the NCAA rule on athletes getting jobs? To the best of my understanding football players are not allowed by the NCAA to get any kind of job at all, whether delivering pizzas or working in the registrar's office. If this is true then I have no problem with a stipend as the NCAA is the one not allowing them to earn any spending money whatsoever. Can anyone clarify this? Is this true for every NCAA athelete?
They can't work during the school year but I'm not sure about some summer jobs (many work at summer football camps but I'm not sure if they get paid). Part of the reason they can't work goes back to scandals in the 80's: 1. Players getting paid for field maintenance (guy walks outside every other day and measured the length of the grass on the field and then gave that to the ground crew supervisor) 2. Players working for boosters (you can only imagine the work they did) 3. Guys getting paid to do team laundry (guy throws the wash in the washer and gets paid to watch the clothes wash and dry.
You can work during the school year but you cant make more than 2,000 dollars a year, or semester. i cant remeber which
You are correct they just changed that in '97, after my collegiate experience! It's $2K per year and unlimited in the summer.
They get a free eduacation They get tutors to help them pass the classes They get into the classes they want
