Ohio State AD gets $18k bonus for any athlete title won
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Student-athletes talking to people? Banish them.
Student-athletes winning something? Obviously, that means the AD should get $18,000 in BONUS.
http://www.cleveland.com/osu/index.ssf/2014/03/ohio_state_ad_gene_smiths_1800.html
Fuck the NCAA.
Student-athletes winning something? Obviously, that means the AD should get $18,000 in BONUS.
He could make six weeks extra salary for a team national title in football or men's basketball. He could make two weeks extra salary for other team sports titles.
But this is the one that seems to grind people - he gets a week of bonus pay for an individual national title by an athlete. That's more than $18,000. So when Logan Stieber won his third NCAA wrestling title on Sunday, Smith's bonus kicked in.
http://www.cleveland.com/osu/index.ssf/2014/03/ohio_state_ad_gene_smiths_1800.html
Fuck the NCAA.
Student-athletes talking to people? Banish them.
Student-athletes winning something? Obviously, that means the AD should get $18,000 in BONUS.He could make six weeks extra salary for a team national title in football or men's basketball. He could make two weeks extra salary for other team sports titles.
But this is the one that seems to grind people - he gets a week of bonus pay for an individual national title by an athlete. That's more than $18,000. So when Logan Stieber won his third NCAA wrestling title on Sunday, Smith's bonus kicked in.
http://www.cleveland.com/osu/index.ssf/2014/03/ohio_state_ad_gene_smiths_1800.html
Fuck the NCAA.
You know what, i can't blame him or that contract. the way the NCAA works recruiting the players and getting people there, he deserves to get paid.
The dumb part is, that the athlete's aren't getting that money.
Unsurprising. I bet the AD at my Alma Mater gets some ridiculous bonuses if say our massively sanctioned Football or Basketball teams turn things around quickly.
Still, paying the students is a really messy proposition. I'm not really sure what the solution is.
Still, paying the students is a really messy proposition. I'm not really sure what the solution is.
Unsurprising. I bet the AD at my Alma Mater gets some ridiculous bonuses if say our massively sanctioned Football or Basketball teams turn things around quickly.
Still, paying the students is a really messy proposition. I'm not really sure what the solution is.
I'm not sure paying them individually is the answer. But a capped salary distributed by the NCAA or the like, probably is. And the money for that should come from TV contracts. And salaries should be a direct % split of all income.
Open to exploitation obviously still. But better than now.
Unsurprising. I bet the AD at my Alma Mater gets some ridiculous bonuses if say our massively sanctioned Football or Basketball teams turn things around quickly.
Still, paying the students is a really messy proposition. I'm not really sure what the solution is.
I'm not sure paying them individually is the answer. But a capped salary distributed by the NCAA or the like, probably is. And the money for that should come from TV contracts. And salaries should be a direct % split of all income.
Open to exploitation obviously still. But better than now.
Well the reality is there are 2 kinds of sports in the NCAA, revenue and non revenue.
Revenue sports are Football and Men's basketball. Everything else is non revenue. The number of athletic departments that actually turn profits from the revenue generated by their revenue sports is actually really small. This is why schools accept big payouts to go get slaughtered in football by the Alabama's of the world. Because that demoralizing beat down often funds the basic operating costs of the entire department.
The new TV contracts and conference based TV networks are definitely bringing more money in, a lot of people have attributed the rise in coaching salaries in the Pac 12 to their brand new TV deal, but again this money is still mostly filtering to the big money conferences. The Mercer's and George Mason's of the world aren't getting the kind of money bottom tier Power Conference schools like Washington State or Vanderbilt do. Good luck getting SEC schools to agree to help fund say the Sun Belt, with their TV revenue.
So if you open it up so the schools can pay players whatever they can afford, then you see private schools like USC and Notre Dame with huge ass rich alumni base shelling out more money than poor state schools could ever hope to provide, or you even see things where state schools with historically prominent programs like Ohio State and Texas spend more money than god on Football, while lesser schools in the state can't afford to pay professor salaries.
I don't know, I just haven't seen a single solution presented that doesn't make the already fucked up landscape even worse than it is now, at least not a plausible one.
The solution is to do what the rest of thre civilized world has been doing fordecades: decouple sports from education.
When I lived in Germany, in order to play organized sports of any kind, you had the option to seek out the local amateur leagues which were sponsored by either the city/state and/or the local franchise(s).
Athletics are a vital part to society, but it has no part to play in the educational system. Let's all stop the bullshit and quit pretending that these elite athletes go to college for a degree.
You can still restrict these leagues by age: U21, U18, U16 and you create a farming system for athletes to rise to the pros.
When I lived in Germany, in order to play organized sports of any kind, you had the option to seek out the local amateur leagues which were sponsored by either the city/state and/or the local franchise(s).
Athletics are a vital part to society, but it has no part to play in the educational system. Let's all stop the bullshit and quit pretending that these elite athletes go to college for a degree.
You can still restrict these leagues by age: U21, U18, U16 and you create a farming system for athletes to rise to the pros.
This is pretty big:
(CNN) - The National Labor Relations Board in Chicago has ruled that football players at Northwestern University are employees and can unionize, the school said Wednesday.
http://www.cnn.com/2014/03/26/us/northwestern-football-union/index.html
(CNN) - The National Labor Relations Board in Chicago has ruled that football players at Northwestern University are employees and can unionize, the school said Wednesday.
http://www.cnn.com/2014/03/26/us/northwestern-football-union/index.html
Good luck decoupling a multi billion dollar industry. I mean sure that's the most logical solution, but NCAA sports are too ingrained for something like that to happen over night.
more ncaa logic: we frequently hear a thing, therefore fuck you
lol NCAA logic.
"You shouldn't get paid for doing something you love."
I like the completely idle threats from north western that if the players unionise they'll just stop having a football program.
No. You won't. You want to keep the millions it brings in even if it means giving up some of it.
There's some really petty childish shit going on there.
No. You won't. You want to keep the millions it brings in even if it means giving up some of it.
There's some really petty childish shit going on there.
I like the completely idle threats from north western that if the players unionise they'll just stop having a football program.
No. You won't. You want to keep the millions it brings in even if it means giving up some of it.
There's some really petty childish shit going on there.
Par for the course for the NCAA really. The punished some kids for getting too much spaghetti at a charity event earlier this year.
Whistleblower says UNC put athletes in classes that never met and required only one final paper. This one got an A-. pic.twitter.com/HShyr6ivGm
Oh, and it's plagiarized from Rosa's autobiography:
http://extramustard.si.com/2014/03/27/unc-athlete-classes-rosa-parks-paper/
BUT THE FREE EDUCATION
