A real shame Darsean lost a hand to an "accident" at a "party" and will never play football again. He really should have not made those "innocent comments" about "just wanting to play" while he knew his union was "negotiating" a "deal" with the Rose Bowl committee.
Doomer snark predictions aside, the athletes are compensated with scholarships and living stipends, no? I would argue they are already being paid.
This is actually vastly untrue. The majority of football players don’t see a dime. You can thank title IX for that as they can’t treat football more favorably despite making 1000xs of times more revenue than other sports. The average D-1 college linemen doesn’t get a scholarship or one so low it’s insulting (~5-10%) of college tuition. Title IX really forced a heavy socialism on school sports so no matter how much they bring in revenue the players must be “treated” the same as any other athlete.
Which is about 2/3rds of a team, closer to half of a 4 or 5 star team. FCS gets 63, and D2 gets 36. Across the board every football team gets far less than what they earn financially.
Even the ones who are given scholarships and living stipends still can't profit off of shit that they could have done in any other industry. They can't make money off of merchandise, their likeness, or anything with their name on it. They make college football coaches the highest paid public employees in the US, bring in literally hundreds of millions of dollars, and end up not seeing a fucking dime.
And that's in the good cases.
I think Northwestern got smashed for two separate scandals:
Those "living stipends" didn't come through for a lot of the athletes, and were actually so low that the football team complained of starvation. After an investigation was done, yeah, the football team was malnourished because they were burning way more calories in practice than they were given to take in via a measly stipend that couldn't pay for much of a lunch. That is on top of the fact that they sometimes weren't given access to food. Full retardation.
Then we need to have a conversation about the cheerleaders. Turns out while the men were starving, the cheerleaders were basically being exploited in a human trafficking ring. "Barely legal" aged cheerleaders were basically required to dress in scantily clad clothing for school donors during fund-raising events, including being given instructions about how to behave and respond if any of the donors got frisky (which was to basically let them have their way). Several of the cheerleaders allege that they were required to have sex with some of the donors as a reward for some of the fundraising.
Nobody gets paid appropriately. But also, nobody gets paid enough to starve or get trafficked.
A real shame Darsean lost a hand to an "accident" at a "party" and will never play football again. He really should have not made those "innocent comments" about "just wanting to play" while he knew his union was "negotiating" a "deal" with the Rose Bowl committee.
Doomer snark predictions aside, the athletes are compensated with scholarships and living stipends, no? I would argue they are already being paid.
This is actually vastly untrue. The majority of football players don’t see a dime. You can thank title IX for that as they can’t treat football more favorably despite making 1000xs of times more revenue than other sports. The average D-1 college linemen doesn’t get a scholarship or one so low it’s insulting (~5-10%) of college tuition. Title IX really forced a heavy socialism on school sports so no matter how much they bring in revenue the players must be “treated” the same as any other athlete.
I thought all 85 of the scholarships allotted to D1 schools for football were full rides?
Which is about 2/3rds of a team, closer to half of a 4 or 5 star team. FCS gets 63, and D2 gets 36. Across the board every football team gets far less than what they earn financially.
Interesting. I had no idea, so thank you for sorting that for me.
It is strange how "everyone gets the same" seems to devolve into "the majority get much less" when it comes to socialized outcomes.
Even the ones who are given scholarships and living stipends still can't profit off of shit that they could have done in any other industry. They can't make money off of merchandise, their likeness, or anything with their name on it. They make college football coaches the highest paid public employees in the US, bring in literally hundreds of millions of dollars, and end up not seeing a fucking dime.
And that's in the good cases.
I think Northwestern got smashed for two separate scandals:
Those "living stipends" didn't come through for a lot of the athletes, and were actually so low that the football team complained of starvation. After an investigation was done, yeah, the football team was malnourished because they were burning way more calories in practice than they were given to take in via a measly stipend that couldn't pay for much of a lunch. That is on top of the fact that they sometimes weren't given access to food. Full retardation.
Then we need to have a conversation about the cheerleaders. Turns out while the men were starving, the cheerleaders were basically being exploited in a human trafficking ring. "Barely legal" aged cheerleaders were basically required to dress in scantily clad clothing for school donors during fund-raising events, including being given instructions about how to behave and respond if any of the donors got frisky (which was to basically let them have their way). Several of the cheerleaders allege that they were required to have sex with some of the donors as a reward for some of the fundraising.
Nobody gets paid appropriately. But also, nobody gets paid enough to starve or get trafficked.
What I'm saying is: don't go to Northwestern.
That’s what NIL is for now, but this is still getting pushed through the courts