Time to End the Charade of DI Athletics

[SVPanther]

The premise is that there is sooo much money in football, and to a lesser extent, basketball which enrich coaches and administrators to the detriment of the players.
According to a recent study, 86% of DI atheletes live in poverty. So, what about this for starters:

1. Any DI scholarship player has the option of applying his/her scholarship to the cost of his or her education leading, presumably, to a degree, or,
2. Taking the cash equivalent of tuition and not being required to attend class.
3. Any player can transfer to any other institution at his/her election.

Just some starting ideas.

 

[Las Panteras]

ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ...............

 

[9nationalchampionships]

State your business or get lost. Enough of this crap.

The premise is that there is sooo much money in football, and to a lesser extent, basketball which enrich coaches and administrators to the detriment of the players.
According to a recent study, 86% of DI atheletes live in poverty. So, what about this for starters:

1. Any DI scholarship player has the option of applying his/her scholarship to the cost of his or her education leading, presumably, to a degree, or,
2. Taking the cash equivalent of tuition and not being required to attend class.
3. Any player can transfer to any other institution at his/her election.

Just some starting ideas.

 

[King Of All Message Boards]

Time for you to delete your account and go away.

 

[Swervin27]

IF d1 athletes are living in poverty, what are students who dont get free education, books, healthcare, food, and a monthly stipend living in?

 

[Jtommyj]

We already have that. It's called the NFL.

 

[UPitt '89]

The premise is that there is sooo much money in football, and to a lesser extent, basketball which enrich coaches and administrators to the detriment of the players.
According to a recent study, 86% of DI atheletes live in poverty. So, what about this for starters:

1. Any DI scholarship player has the option of applying his/her scholarship to the cost of his or her education leading, presumably, to a degree, or,
2. Taking the cash equivalent of tuition and not being required to attend class.
3. Any player can transfer to any other institution at his/her election.

Just some starting ideas.

Your ideas are dumber than SMF's worst ones.

And that's saying something.

 

[H2P2006]

Why are you posting on this board? Go join a slippery rock board. Oh there isn't one for them because their not D1. Well then just get lost.

 

[Swervin27]

I wouldn't mind seeing the NCAA ease up on transfer rules. I'd like to see a small window that a player can transfer if their HC leaves. Maybe a 90 day window from when it's announced that a player can transfer without losing a year.

Yes it would cause some free agent like scenarios but it would make these ADs re-think all of these firings every year.

 

[cruzer]

That went well don't you think?

 

[President Stache]

The premise is that there is sooo much money in football, and to a lesser extent, basketball which enrich coaches and administrators to the detriment of the players.
According to a recent study, 86% of DI atheletes live in poverty. So, what about this for starters:

1. Any DI scholarship player has the option of applying his/her scholarship to the cost of his or her education leading, presumably, to a degree, or,
2. Taking the cash equivalent of tuition and not being required to attend class.
3. Any player can transfer to any other institution at his/her election.

Just some starting ideas.

Wow, you make Pitt Poker look like a genius

 

[Pitt-Chains]

The premise is that there is sooo much money in football, and to a lesser extent, basketball which enrich coaches and administrators to the detriment of the players.
According to a recent study, 86% of DI atheletes live in poverty. So, what about this for starters:

1. Any DI scholarship player has the option of applying his/her scholarship to the cost of his or her education leading, presumably, to a degree, or,
2. Taking the cash equivalent of tuition and not being required to attend class.
3. Any player can transfer to any other institution at his/her election.

Just some starting ideas.

Snowing out, go shovel the snow...

 

[Ski11585]

Pay the players.

 

[Swervin27]

Pay the players.

They do

 

[OriginalEther]

I wouldn't mind seeing the NCAA ease up on transfer rules. I'd like to see a small window that a player can transfer if their HC leaves. Maybe a 90 day window from when it's announced that a player can transfer without losing a year.

Yes it would cause some free agent like scenarios but it would make these ADs re-think all of these firings every year.

Problem I have with that is it favors the big schools.

The mid majors have to deal with coaches getting poached all the time. Now imagine having their roster raided afterwards.

 

[President Stache]

Problem I have with that is it favors the big schools.

The mid majors have to deal with coaches getting poached all the time. Now imagine having their roster raided afterwards.

favors???

It completely will ruin amateur collegiate sports.

 

[HailtoPitt]

People living in actual poverty would kill for a D1 athlete's lifestyle.

The real problem is that we don't have a legit minor league for football.

 

[Ski11585]

They do

Pay them more. Shouldn't you be all for letting people earn what they can on the free market?

 

[levance2]

Pay them more. Shouldn't you be all for letting people earn what they can on the free market?

If it was a free market, someone else would pay them. That doesn't mean schools have to.

 

[Rockyhound]

People living in actual poverty would kill for a D1 athlete's lifestyle.

The real problem is that we don't have a legit minor league for football.

This and the fact that players must wait three years before entering the NFL. While I don't think most if any can make the jump straight from high school, there are players like Fornette who were more than ready after one year at LSU.

 

[burnie1105]

If any of you have a logical rebuttal to the OP, by all means post it, because saying 'You're stupid!' isn't a real response.

 

[King Of All Message Boards]

Wow, you make Pitt Poker look like a genius

Let's not get nuts.

 

[recruitsreadtheseboards]

favors???

It completely will ruin amateur collegiate sports.

Amateur sports is Slippery Rock and CMU. It ain't on this level.

 

[Swervin27]

Pay them more. Shouldn't you be all for letting people earn what they can on the free market?

ski, only option here would be for the conferences to all get together, put some of their TV money in a big pot and evenly distribute it to the athletes.. THat's it.. Most schools cant pay it. Yes, Bama and LSu and tOSU can but 98% of schools can not afford this extra cost.. Biggest stream of revenue is tv money. Of course we know that isn't paid evenly, it's paid out to conferences.. If you can talk the sec and big 10 into throwing in a big portion of their tv revenue so football players at rice and SE Louisiana state can get more money, well good luck..


If you want pay outs to be higher for the P5 conferences, well you are creating a very unfair system to the non P5 schools.

 

[Swervin27]

This and the fact that players must wait three years before entering the NFL. While I don't think most if any can make the jump straight from high school, there are players like Fornette who were more than ready after one year at LSU.

that's a rule that I am shocked is still around.. Making kids stay in school a certain amount of time.. Literally breaks every sensical law on the books..

 

[SVPanther]

True. And by no means do my ideas address a lot of the resulting competition inequities. In fact, my proposal would result in Stanford, Vandy, Rice and USC probably being in the playoffs this year. Then again, it's a better solution than the Vassels / Serfs system we have now.

Problem I have with that is it favors the big schools.

The mid majors have to deal with coaches getting poached all the time. Now imagine having their roster raided afterwards.

 

[SVPanther]

If any of you have a logical rebuttal to the OP, by all means post it, because saying 'You're stupid!' isn't a real response.

Thanks bro. These kids are being used in the worst ways. I just think it's gross that DI football is a multi billion dollar industry when, at the end of the day, 90% of these "student atheletes" come out no better - or worse - than when they went in. That's just messed up.

 

[TTOWN2]

Thanks bro. These kids are being used in the worst ways. I just think it's gross that DI football is a multi billion dollar industry when, at the end of the day, 90% of these "student atheletes" come out no better - or worse - than when they went in. That's just messed up.

Agreed....It's a mess.

 

[UPitt '89]

that's a rule that I am shocked is still around.. Making kids stay in school a certain amount of time.. Literally breaks every sensical law on the books..

It's not an ncaa rule, it is an NFL rule.

The NFL has decided that no player younger than 21 (they define it as three years after his High school graduating class...but for all intents and purposes it is 21) is physically ready to play in their league.

It is part of the NFL's collective bargaining agreement with the union, and it has already withstood court challenges.

The NCAA has absolutely nothing to do with it.