Last year, The NCAA made $1 billion on the tv contract for the NCAA basketball tournament alone. 8 college football coaches make over $10 million per year. This stopped being an amateur sport many many years ago. It is absolutely crazy that these athletes were not receiving a cut of those proceeds. And the players weren’t even allowed to have another job. There is nowhere else in the USA that this would be legal or tolerated. And still the NCAA gives none of those proceeds to the athletes. They get private donors and sponsors to pay the “salaries”. It’s absurd. Players are the ones generating that revenue. They deserve a cut.
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I still don't think that individual players should get a lion's share of the reward but yes, i think the money should be shared. I'm actually kind of surprised it was ONLY $1 billion.
I think that the money should be distributed to all athletic programs including ones that nobody watched like women's field hockey or something. Of course I might be a bit biased because in hindsight, the only reason why I got a free ride with a college scholarship was because the university is forced to offer them for sports that don't make money. The same was true of a lot of other college athletes that went to school with me.
I just feel like once certain colleges are seen as the ones where the players can go to earn millions, that this is where all the talent will go and mostly I think that isn't much fun. March Madness isn't nearly as exciting as it used to be, but perhaps that is just because I am getting older and grumpier 😄
Yep can’t argue that this is not great for the sport but that’s what happens when an organization decides to go pro (which the ncaa did about 40 years ago). It’s 100% about the money. At least now the people actually warning the money are getting some of it… oh wait. No they don’t. The colleges get it all. And individual boosters pay the players. Never seen a case of having your cake and eating it too like this before.