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Message: [QUOTE="TheCusian, post: 1100262, member: 2585"] 1. You've made my point for me again - the money goes to buildings, coaches, administrators. But not to the student athlete? I'm not against coaches and people making money for doing their jobs - I'm just rooting for players to make a fairer share. BTW - that is exactly the reasoning that the p5 conference commish are using. All of the money goes everywhere but the players - mostly due to NCAA rules meant for the 350 teams. The 65 p5 teams have said - "we've gotten so big and we've spent so much money on everything - but we're hamstrung by these rules regarding stipends and medical $, etc." ... 2. You have to consider people outside of the university when discussing players. The infrastructure built around the student athletes is a money making machine. The video game guys literally making millions of dollars using your likeness? But you can't charge for that - or be compensated? It's grotesque. Without the players playing - their wouldn't be bowl games and video games and things to watch on TV. The engine that powers the whole deal is the player. 3. It's not about the student's thinking that their situation is shitty. It's that they are smart enough to look around and realize that there is a discrepancy between what they make for the "infrastructure" and what they are compensated for. 4. You're assuming that schools like SU can't pivot to shift money from other areas towards modest improvements for the student, as revenue increases? Coach SS and Gross are for the move are they not? 5. Most students at the school are not contributing a useful skill that is on par with what a football player brings in. 6. It's not about a "supposed plight" - it's about market value. The last to see the benefits are the people that the whole system rests on. That's why the vote happened yesterday. It was an unfeasible imbalance both between the p5 and the rest of the conferences - but also between the overall $ and the student athletes benefits. [/QUOTE]

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