It is 2022, stop looking at things like we are still in the 1960s, just because the NCAA still defines student-athletes as amateurs. The money star players generate for their universities is through the roof. It was long past time that players get to profit off all of their hard work beyond just free education. For every Caleb Williams, there are thousands of kids who will never see a dime beyond the scholarship and stipends they currently receive. The only insanity that needs to stop is people getting upset because a kid has a chance to make money while playing a college sport, especially so in football where a playing career could be ended due to injury at any moment long before they can cash in on any pro money.
Also, last I checked, there is no minor league system for football and there never will be while the NFL has one for free with college football.
What about all the non student-athletes? If they go onto great things and fame should the universities pay them? Should Harvard and Yale pay a stipend to all the students that graduated there and went on to become President of USA, Nobel Prize winners etc?
You are just looking at it from an athletic aspect. I go back to the old argument that they receive a free ride at a university that affords them the highest level showcase platform (free national visibility) and some of the funds generated by these athletes will compensate for that expense.
It was long past time that players get to profit off all of their hard work beyond just free education What a bunch of myopic crap that line is. Their profit comes as any student's does - in the working world. What about all those kids who study hard, do community work and other time consuming things to better themselves and shine a light on their school? Some athletes stay 1/2 of year, never go to class and work on their bodies and nothing else. College, especially in football, is basically their only route to get drafted, they get to attend a university gratis for that 1/2 year but they should get more? None of these 1 or 2 and done full scholarship athletes are straddled with tens of thousands dollars in student loan debt.
I smile to see your AD DB Burner moniker because you appear think like him, and that is a problem for college sports.
If you are so fervent about paying these kids, start your own football farm system and get financial backing from the Nike's and other corporate conglomerate dolts. This would allow places in college sports for true student athletes; taking the rent a players away. Baseball, and hopefully soon basketball, has the right ideas and work arounds.
As a player risks injury, any student can befall an issue that takes their ability to earn money to do what they dream away, but most students who complete their college tenure will have something else to hopefully fall back on - skills to do a myriad of different job responsibilities.
I am totally for giving stipends to all students on an as needed basis - too much attention is paid to the student athletes. Remember - a huge percentage that make millions playing pro sports give little or nothing back to the school that gave them a place to show off their talents on a national stage.
Carmelo Anthony, love him or hate him, is a rare occurrence with what he has done for Cuse.
