Post-graduation Support of Athletes
April 27th, 2018 at 10:05 PM ^
Pick is in
April 27th, 2018 at 10:16 PM ^
April 27th, 2018 at 10:15 PM ^
#justpaytheplayers is said by short sighted people who don't realize/care that there are more than just Football and Men's Basketball at the university.
April 27th, 2018 at 10:18 PM ^
April 27th, 2018 at 10:23 PM ^
You people can't get it through your heads that you can't just pay football and men's basketball players.
You pay one team, you will have to pay them all or it's lawsuit time. Either that or schools will just cut sports they can't afford to pay the athletes of.
Also, I don't go to GVSU so your arrogant and misinformed potshot was pointless.
April 27th, 2018 at 10:38 PM ^
Actually, you don't even have to pay the players. Just professionalize the teams and sell them off. The university has no business running professional sports teams. They could rent Michigan Stadium and Crisler to the pro teams, though. Everyone would be happy.
April 28th, 2018 at 12:01 PM ^
The NCAA is so backwards they ruled some kicker was ineligble, because he had a YouTube channel where he did tricks with his legs, which was profiting from his own image.
Some posters here are so backwards they think the NCAA ruled that kicker ineligable because he "did tricks with his legs," when, in fact, the NCAA had nothing to do with it. UCF told him that what he was doing was fine so long as he didn't use his association with UCF in hs videos if the videos were monetized. He chose the videos over his scholarship. His life, his choice.
#dontpushfakenews
April 28th, 2018 at 10:13 AM ^
If you think I am wrong you can do so without personally attacking me.
You claim "the NCAA had nothing to do with it."
Well the NCAA has a rule against this sort of thing...the NCAA notified UCF about the possible violation, the NCAA was sent a waiver request by UCF and the NCAA countered with their own compromise, which the kicker rejected. So UCF fearing vacated wins, ruled him ineligble for the time being...due to the NCAA rules.
So yes, technically UCF ruled him ineligible...because of the NCAA...how can you claim the NCAA had nothing to do with it?
So please, tell me how "the NCAA had nothing to do with it" or how these media sources are wrong - in particular the two USA Today sources, which go into better detail of what transpired. Please do so without personally attacking me.
April 28th, 2018 at 10:47 AM ^
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April 29th, 2018 at 11:49 AM ^
WD... you need to call a friend/professional who doesn't agree with you... and talk it out.
There is no US/Them on this blog...in this world... except in your head.
There are all sorts of schemes to pay players, change the game and change the world.
Reason doesn't rule the day when posited unreasonably. Us-Them memes are dangerous and unhealthy (unless they come wrapped in collegiality- which is what college is all about.)
Just saying...
April 27th, 2018 at 10:36 PM ^
April 28th, 2018 at 10:18 AM ^
I agree with at the very least allowing them to profit off of their own image. However, it seems like you could pay the players that generate a profit.
The university employs tons of students from someone washing dishes for the cafeteria to a grad student helping teach a freshman class. They are not all compensated equally, because they add different value.
All varsity sports have some scholarships to compensate players with, why can't the sports that add more economic value to the university simply compensate them more?
You could make it simple: X% of the profit that your team generates gets put into a pot and distributed to the players on the team.
So..."Women's Rowing" you didn't generate a profit, but you still get compensated with scholarships, because we appreciate you. Meanwhile, "Football" you added a lot of value to the university by generating a profit so you will get scholarships and a share of the profit. I don't see why that would be illegal, but I am not an expert.
April 28th, 2018 at 10:51 AM ^
April 28th, 2018 at 11:24 AM ^
That is a good point. I know engineering majors that made a lot of nice college money during summer breaks on engineering internships. It is hypocritical to not allow football players to get compensation for helping run a football camp over the summer.
If a HS player wants to pay an elite college player money for some "tutoring" on how to throw a ball, or catch a ball, block, etc...why does the NCAA need to step in and ban it? How is this bad? I know music majors that make money tutoring HS music kids over the summer for money.
April 28th, 2018 at 12:26 PM ^
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April 28th, 2018 at 12:30 AM ^
"I know you can't relate at gvsu but these guys sacrifice more than you will ever know."
People who make everything needlessly personal are the worst kind of people.
April 28th, 2018 at 12:28 AM ^
Also, WTF we should give a football player money because he’s probably only going to be a 4th round pick? I like Mo as much as the rest of you but come on if you need to relieve yourself of some money it’s not hard to find a worthy cause that accepts credit cards online.
April 27th, 2018 at 10:16 PM ^
April 27th, 2018 at 10:33 PM ^
Mo is gonna be in the NFL. Drafted or not, he's gonna be on a line down the road and he's going to make NFL owners and GMs keep wondering, how did we mess up so bad?
April 27th, 2018 at 10:35 PM ^
April 27th, 2018 at 10:44 PM ^
I've wondered before if there are NCAA rules against paying players after their eligibility is expired. Could Michigan just decide to give all graduating football players $25,000 per year on the team? Could they say anything about it during recruiting or would they just have to claim they spontaneously decided to give a bunch of dudes who used to play on the football team 1 time cash payments after they graduated?
April 27th, 2018 at 11:27 PM ^
Paying them for playing is a violation. Paying them to show up to a restaurant to say HI and sign an autograph, after they graduate, is not a violation. So the way I understand it, as long as you don't pay them for what they did in school, attach any requirements that relate to them playing or how long they played. Then Michigan should be okay if they are paid after graduation. As long as the school has nothing to do with it.
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