Matt Bockhorst with the clap back

[longislandcuse]

 

[cusefan88]

It's true. But it's also true the value of all those things is not close to the value they bring in exposure to the school. Trevor Lawrence is worth all those things 10x.

 

[skurey]

I'll take the cash

 

[texascpa]

I'll take the cash

And use it to pay your tuition?

 

[donniesyracuse]

I would rather not have CTE.

 

[Horn88]

The idea that the school "covering the cost of attendance" is of any cost of significance to the school at all is the first myth that needs to be erased from this discussion. There's a reason schools at all levels have been letting good athletes go to their school for free, or at a significantly reduced rate, for generations.

 

[longislandcuse]

The idea that the school "covering the cost of attendance" is of any cost of significance to the school at all is the first myth that needs to be erased from this discussion. There's a reason schools at all levels have been letting good athletes go to their school for free, or at a significantly reduced rate, for generations.

I’m not sure where I lean one way or the other, but, can you justify paying CFB and MCBB athletes only?... since they make drive about 95% of the athletic revenue for their schools and drive the P5 bus.

Should WCBB athletes be paid? Volleyball? Track and Field? If not, you’ll get crazy blowback from various organizations. If so, how do you justify paying athletes for sports it costs money to operate at a net loss?

 

[Horn88]

I’m not sure where I lean one way or the other, but, can you justify paying CFB and MCBB athletes only?... since they make drive about 95% of the athletic revenue for their schools and drive the P5 bus.

Should WCBB athletes be paid? Volleyball? Track and Field? If not, you’ll get crazy blowback from various organizations. If so, how do you justify paying athletes for sports it costs money to operate at a net loss?

I think the easy answer is to just allow any student-athlete in any sport to profit off of their own likeness. It relieves the school of that minefield you mentioned and calls the bluff on the argument that schools can't afford by more or less saying "OK, you don't have to worry about it and there are no added expense items to your annual P/L." Let the free market tell these players how much they are or aren't worth.

I think schools don't want that because it means less money for them. Say I own Car Dealership ABC right now and I give $20K to SU. In this set up, maybe I give Battle $5K for a commercial, ED $5K for a commercial, a lacrosse player $5k for a commercial and then write SU a check for $5k. The school loses $15k from that donor and then see a similar effect trickle across other various donations. That IMO is why they don't want to let players profit off their own likeness.

 

[Timonen]

I think the easy answer is to just allow any student-athlete in any sport to profit off of their own likeness. It relieves the school of that minefield you mentioned and calls the bluff on the argument that schools can't afford by more or less saying "OK, you don't have to worry about it and there are no added expense items to your annual P/L." Let the free market tell these players how much they are or aren't worth.

I think schools don't want that because it means less money for them. Say I own Car Dealership ABC right now and I give $20K to SU. In this set up, maybe I give Battle $5K for a commercial, ED $5K for a commercial, a lacrosse player $5k for a commercial and then write SU a check for $5k. The school loses $15k from that donor and then see a similar effect trickle across other various donations. That IMO is why they don't want to let players profit off their own likeness.

This would be consistent with a student who was a musician or actor (or probably a chemist or other more strictly academic field) and took sponsorship money from third parties while in school. I can be a music major on scholarship and take $250k to use Pearl drums and Vic Firth sticks during a tour.

 

[sufan4eva13]

The CTE thing remains the most poorly understood issue among football fans in recent memory. A huge portion think it's been proven that CTE even causes any problems in life (it has not) or has a unique neurodegenerative profile of any kind. None of this has been established.