There are millions who would jump at the chance to be an engineer / name your 6 figure job but who's actually qualified and capable to perform that job?
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Not for unions. What they were original formed for was great. They are killing our county now. Can’t you see the present.
Unions are for people with jobs! College football players are NOT workers, they are college students who elect to play a sport at the college for the benefit of getting their education (and all living expenses) for free. By your logic, HS football players should be demanding a cut of anything their HS brings in from their games. Heck, HS players aren't getting ANY financial benefits from playing which is a way worse situation than college players have.
Are you opposed to treating them as employees giving each player a salary based on their worth and not providing any benefits for free?
So for instance K Hill gets 250k a year/salary
but out of that he has to pay his tuition, room and board, tutor fees, facility memberships, all of his meals etc?
So basically just treat them as if they were an actual employee.
Thats my point on the fallacy. These particular players think the fans are there for them when the fans are actually there for the school colors.
When the NFL played with replacements in 1987 the fans did not like it but did not stop watching.
In college football, most people would not like an Egg Bowl less if the game were just JA, Madison Central, Brandon and MRA all stars, it's still an egg bowl. People would just write off that 5-stars are heading to the XFL, 4-stars to Canada, and 1-in-5 "3-stars" played in college. It would be like college baseball and we would still love it.
True, true. Pandoras box is opened.
The other thing is so they want to get paid so then they have to pay the coaches and school for using the million dollar facilities while they are at it. If they get paid then they can also pay their tuition and other stuff while they are at it.
Richard Cross made the point the other day using Stamford as example and their benefit was around 800K to play football at Stamford. And that is getting out of school with a degree from Stamford with no school debt. I'd say that is getting paid.
I say let them go the NFL and see how hard it is if they want to make money.
To much entitlement and victim mentality running wild in our society.
If this were to ever be allowed the size of the industry would shrink. Donors would bail like crazy.
This might be a good thing. Just let all the guys go who want to get paid and get the kids that really want to play college football. Watch D2 or D3 games sometimes and you'll see kids playing hard every play and just enjoying the game, it's refreshing.