"Who owns the Mets?" and "who the Mets will trade?" are bigger topics in sports news currently than how they're playing, maybe that's why the stadium is empty.
So pretty much everyone involved with televised college sports rakes in boat loads of cash except for the athletes playing the games? Awesome, that makes total sense.
I'm new to fantasy baseball but if you put a SP,RP in an RP slot, why should his Starting stats be included as well as his Relief stats? Isn't that kind of a loop hole? or is it just part of the game?
Thanks a lot NFL, no off-season means I'm paying way too much attention to fantasy baseball.
There's a superficial appeal to the concept of paying the players. And I'm not going to argue that there's not a lot of unfairness in the current system. But paying college players constitutes an existential threat to the entire enterprise.
ReplyDeletePlayers do get scholarships. Of course, if a school makes no effort to see that their players actually graduate with a meaningful degree (Big 10 schools), or worse, seeks only to maintain their players' eligibility at the expense of their receiving a meaningful education (SEC schools, Oklahoma), then those scholarships are worthless, and big time college sports are nothing more than a rank form of exploitation.
But if you pay players then big time college sports will cease to exist in their current form. Most schools won't have the resources, and many others won't have the institutional mandate to run a de facto professional minor league. It will take a while, but the programs will either cease to exist, or become less and less tethered to the institution over time, and the built-in fanbases will lose interest.
You can go ahead and pay your players, and maybe that's the fairest thing to do. But you're talking about the extinction of college sports if you do.
Or, you can insist that schools ensure that their players get the most out of their scholarships, the institution survives, and everybody wins. I prefer the latter.
I should add that I don't think a small stipend will make that much a difference. But it's a slippery slope, and if players start to command salaries at a level dictated by the market, then the the whole thing will go poof (eventually).
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