What about skinny rich guys?If the school is profiting from the sport then the athletes should get paid. Fat rich guys shouldn't reap the benefit of other peoples talent.
-W
What about skinny rich guys?If the school is profiting from the sport then the athletes should get paid. Fat rich guys shouldn't reap the benefit of other peoples talent.
-W
Bottom line, I do think that a small stipend is in order - enough to buy clothes if needed, or even just to meet your new best friends from math class for coffee. Your new math buddy can sell her math expertise to pay for her coffee, but you are not allowed to profit from your basketball prowess, which seems unfair.
The additional benefits being discussed are why the five major D-I conferences are looking for more autonomy within the NCAA. This really won't have much effect on schools like WKU because there is already a huge gap between them and the major programs. This will lead to some more shuffling between conferences as smaller programs within the 5 major conferences will be further stressed to keep up and strong programs outside the 5 will want to join them.Schools in the five major D-1 conferences can afford it. It would just mean sacrificing other things, like an indoor football practice facility, or the addition of 10,000 seats on the stadium. But adding that mandatory cost of business would make it harder for for the have-nots to compete. $1 million is nothing to the University of Texas, but quite a lot at Western Kentucky or Marshall.
For smaller conferences and lower divisions, it might well mean the need to cut sports programs. Might be one of those things where you'd have to try it and see what would happen.
A player should get everything paid for 4 years just for playing only one season?
I don't know how other schools work, but the DI college I am currently attending charges me approximately $9 per credit hour for an "athletic fee". For the spring semester, students enrolled in 146,394 credit hours. That means that the college received over $1.3 million just for the spring semester alone from students' fees. So that revenue doesn't all come from the successful sports teams.
CoachChristine, Does that athletic fee entitle you to tickets or discounted tickets to sporting events? Do you get anything for that fee?
Yes. They should also get everything paid if the coach leaves for any other reason than retirement. I don't think you realize how large these TV contracts are and how little these athletes are receiving.