Saving College Sports!
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Not sure where to put this thread, so stuck it here. Not meant to inflame with political back and forth, but when the president says he has a solution coming, worth discussion.
Sounds like he'll issue a decree this coming week to fix it all! I'm 100% agreed that it needs fixing though. off we go...
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I think the biggest fix should be to prevent schools receiving federal funds from entering into contracts with coaches where buyouts are included. Plus, coaches should not be allowed to break their contracts, and no coach salary should exceed an amount equal to the average coach salary from 2010. Finally, coaches should not be allowed to endorse products and schools should not be allowed to have exclusive contracts from sports equipment and clothing companies.
Oh, sorry. I forgot that the only "fix" people are clamoring for is to restrict athletes' transfers and earnings.
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This quote:
"And we're going to put it forward, and we're going to get sued, and we're going to see how it plays, OK, but I'll have an executive order, which will solve every problem in this room, every conceivable problem, within one week, and we'll put it forward. We will get sued. That's the only thing I know for sure."
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Reagan once said that there is nothing scarier than someone from the government saying "I'm here to help." I don't think that is always true, but I think its true here.
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@mayjay said in Saving College Sports!:
I think the biggest fix should be to prevent schools receiving federal funds from entering into contracts with coaches where buyouts are included. Plus, coaches should not be allowed to break their contracts, and no coach salary should exceed an amount equal to the average coach salary from 2010. Finally, coaches should not be allowed to endorse products and schools should not be allowed to have exclusive contracts from sports equipment and clothing companies.
Oh, sorry. I forgot that the only "fix" people are clamoring for is to restrict athletes' transfers and earnings.
@mayjay i have to admit I don’t understand how this would help. Is it simply that coach salaries are too high? How does an association with a product make things bad?
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I don’t either. It was facetious. Maybe this will help make my meaning clearer: All those bastards want to do is to reverse a decade of court losses at every level up to the Supreme Court by creating an exemption to antitrust law to force college athletes back to the days when they were allowed to earn nothing from their own image or talent (even from nonathletic endeavors), where they had no freedom to change schools without onerous restrictions, and where coaches, schools and conferences could get all the money from billions of TV revenue without any monetary compensation to the kids doing all the actual physical labor on which college sports are dependent.
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@mayjay gotcha. i admit i read it while barely awake! my sarcasm meter doesn't kick in til after lunch
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@rockchalkjayhawk I was afraid my sarcasm might be misread. No mistaking my second post, though: WORKERS OF THE WORLD UNITE!🪧🪧🪧🪧🪧🪧
[Fades out singing a Wobblies' song
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NIL absolutely needs to be reformed and regulated because it will absolutely kill non-revenue sports and has already forced a lot of schools including quite a few P4 schools to eliminate programs because they can no longer afford to fund them due to funding football NIL or basketball in some cases.
I could see NIL eventually becoming a Title IX issue because most of the programs being dropped are women's programs.
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Iowa St just canceled their gymnastics team for an example of what your saying
