Good read on the pending lawsuit of players vs NCAA

[Mr Janny]

You're being obtuse. How much do you thing Cam Newton would have gotten on an open market? A lot more than he got under the table.

and? He still was paid to play, wasn't he? Players already go to the highest bidder. Did you read the Bagman article that floated around here a few months ago? That's the recruiting game. You can't pretend that introducing the paying of players would suddenly corrupt this pristine sport where players are already being paid. We're already through the looking glass on that one.

 

[Incyte]

and? He still was paid to play, wasn't he? Players already go to the highest bidder. Did you read the Bagman article that floated around here a few months ago? That's the recruiting game. You can't pretend that introducing the paying of players would suddenly corrupt this pristine sport where players are already being paid. We're already through the looking glass on that one.

I see your point. But I counter that the introduction of free agency in baseball precipitated the most dramatic change to the nature of that sport in its history.

I don't think you can sit there with a straight face and say the grant of employee status and full anti-trust protections won't dramatically change how we perceive/experience college sports. By even requiring the players be STUDENTS is an act of collusion. That student-athlete status itself is why some of us are so tied to college sports.

 

[bwbauer]

quote from the article "So out of all those student athletes, we’re talking about five to 10 kids a year that would truly benefit the most [from an open-market system]"

[FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]They have the argument all wrong, it's not the future paid players that are the issue, it's the players that don't make it to the big leagues. Many of them are used and given a potentially worthless degree afterwards, while the school is reeling in the dough. The so called future big leaguers got at least a non-paid internship assisted them in getting a hefty signing bonus. I don't see much pity for them. If they can't pay the players, they should at least provide them with discounted to free schooling for future needs towards any NCAA school depending on the hours they spent and the sport they were in. [/FONT]

 

[surly]

Love Texas A.D.'s commentary ...

http://bleacherreport.com/tb/ddmYG?...dium=newsletter&utm_campaign=college-football