NCAA caves - votes to allow players to profit off likeness

[Maroonthirteen]

Just because you didn’t hear about it in the news doesn’t mean the IRS didn’t come along after and access tax on those guys.

[Maroonthirteen]

There is no new rules needed. The college kids will be taxed just like the pro guys are currently. If they don’t file and report it..... then see.... Wesley Snipes, Richard Hatch, The Situation... etc.

[Commercecomet24]

There is no new rules needed. The college kids will be taxed just like the pro guys are currently. If they don’t file and report it..... then see.... Wesley Snipes, Richard Hatch, The Situation... etc.

Yep.

[Liverpooldawg]

That is probably the end of bigtime college sports. It won't affect the blue bloods, till the rest of us start dropping away. Then it will affect all but the bluest of the blue. The biggest winner is Notre Dame. In 20 years you will see a NCAA division one composed of about 25-30 schools for each major sport. The rest of the sports will slowly wither.

[FriarsPoint]

“Block fo yoself, mfer. You da one getting paid.”

Yep. I’m done.

[smootness]

And just like that...college football as an amateur sport came to an end.

I don't think so. It's possible this is the beginning of the end, but I really don't think it will be.

Allowing players the ability to make money off their name and likeness was always the right move.

[Todd4State]

I guess we can offer baseball players endorsements now to make up for the 11.7? Cool.

[AROB44]

If a player gets paid, then he should have to pay for going to school just like any other student.

[dawgs]

That is probably the end of bigtime college sports. It won't affect the blue bloods, till the rest of us start dropping away. Then it will affect all but the bluest of the blue. The biggest winner is Notre Dame. In 20 years you will see a NCAA division one composed of about 25-30 schools for each major sport. The rest of the sports will slowly wither.

You act like CTE, insurance, and a drastic reduction in youth participation reducing the talent pool isn't gonna already have this effect on CFB in the next 20-30 years.

[dawgs]

If a player gets paid, then he should have to pay for going to school just like any other student.

That's such a dumb ****ing statement. I was on a full ride to MSU and I worked in school too. Why can't athletes do the same?

[dawgs]

The problem is when you have a player blow up and the transfer portal. Won't be long before you can transfer for any reason. So let's say Schrader had just gone bonkers and LSU has no heir apparent. LSU would just call him up and offer him all kind of endorsements if they wanted.

Yeah, I'm talking about worse case scenario, but you've got a ton of rich, hyper-competitive alumni at a bunch of these places.

Pro sports have rules against meddling in other teams players when they are under contract. There's also rules on the books for contacting players on scholarship now. I don't think there's just gonna be programs calling up players on scholarship and upping the offer to get them to transfer and if there are, they should be placed on probation.

[dawgs]

Y'all seriously think enough money is gonna fly around that this is some government conspiracy to generate another revenue stream? Cause I sure don't think so.

[PMDawg]

https://www.espn.com/college-sports/...rofit-likeness

Won't matter who our coach if this gets instituted - will take a minor miracle for any non-blue blood, huge alumni base school to succeed that's not in a major metro area.

EDIT - this is every bit the NCAA voting to keep themselves relevant and guarantee their status. It's not about the member institutions or the athletes.

Well, at least now I don't have to care about whether Joe comes back in 2020, or who our next coach is.

I'm done with NCAA sports. What's the point?

[Tbonewannabe]

Just because you didn’t hear about it in the news doesn’t mean the IRS didn’t come along after and access tax on those guys.

I think it would have been big news if some college kid got a $5,000 to $10,000 IRS bill.

[dawgs]

I don't think so. It's possible this is the beginning of the end, but I really don't think it will be.

Allowing players the ability to make money off their name and likeness was always the right move.

There's no legal or moral argument against it. The only argument is that it'll change things. But lots of the biggest wrongs in human history were perpetuated because it was just how it had always been and changing would require work, but that didn't mean we should've kept perpetuating the system instead of doing the right thing.

[AROB44]

That's such a dumb ****ing statement. I was on a full ride to MSU and I worked in school too. Why can't athletes do the same?

Ok, since you obviously are superior, what is dumb about what I said? You know, just because you don't agree doesn't mean that the other person is dumb.

[Tbonewannabe]

If a player gets paid, then he should have to pay for going to school just like any other student.

The SEC pretty much requires a football player to put in full time work year round. Players are essentially employees that also go to school. They also have the opportunity to have a life altering injury and the school just cut them loose afterwards. I didn't know that until recently. I read some articles talking about how a player had a knee injury and the only thing the school paid for was the actual surgery. All the rehab and everything else was on the student to pay for. That is one reason that Saban puts them on medical scholarships, they don't lose their insurance if they are pushed out. Scholarships are only good for one year so a player isn't guaranteed insurance or medical bills paid after that year.

[Jack Lambert]

That's such a dumb ****ing statement. I was on a full ride to MSU and I worked in school too. Why can't athletes do the same?

Why not leave out "That's such a dumb ****ing statement" and just say, "I was on a full ride to MSU and I worked in school too. Why can't athletes do the same?" You make the same point.

[smootness]

Athletes should be able to make money off their likeness, they should be allowed to work a job, and/or they should get a decent stipend from the school, at least in the sports that make money for the schools.

Those seem like pretty obvious, common-sense things. Sure, it's a system that could be exploited, but any system can be. The NCAA's job is to police that and do the best they can to make sure money it isn't being taken advantage of.

From the NCAA's perspective, what is the difference between policing, 'Player A is not allowed to get any money,' and, 'Player A is only allowed to get ____ money'?

I do not see any feasible system for paying players according to the 'value' they each bring to the school. I see no possible way some sort of free market system would work, and I see no possible way for a school to set a different value on each player. The superstars will still end up earning more by profiting off their likeness.

[dawgs]

Ok, since you obviously are superior, what is dumb about what I said? You know, just because you don't agree doesn't mean that the other person is dumb.

Feel free to logically back it up. Why shouldn't academic scholarships be taxed too then? Would they only be taxed if the academic recipient took a job on the side? Just ****ing think about it for a second instead of getting wound up that folks putting 3-5 years of their lives and basically full time work hours into a sport that produces hundreds of millions of dollars are finally going to be rightfully able to make a little money off it.