Will NCAA refund my tickets due to the strike? Anyone got any information?Is Rutgers going on strike?
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Will NCAA refund my tickets due to the strike? Anyone got any information?Is Rutgers going on strike?
Players are not being paid to play, or come to your university
What about his image in a video game?
A separate question, which is applicable to the video game example, should players be paid as NCAA college basketball players and not as individuals selling their own likeness.What about his image in a video game?
Can teams put scabs on court for those striking?Sadly the college basketball games were discontinued even before the likeness issues. I love college hoops 2k8 but it’s so old.
No video game should be able to use your likeness without your permissionA separate question, which is applicable to the video game example, should players be paid as NCAA college basketball players and not as individuals selling their own likeness.
If they give me a 100 for speed and 100 for power they don’t need to askNo video game should be able to use your likeness without your permission
I think net net college athletics loses money. Any solution that doesn’t reduce coaching pay won’t leave much money.
We are -40,000,000. It isn’t because of non revenue sports.in D1 hoops, the money losers are the 300 or so non power conference teams (other than the random outlier like SDSU or Gonzaga). Power conferences make plenty of money from TV and tickets.
This - 100%. Top coaches make many millions of dollars each year, College FB & BB are multibillion dollar enterprises.
Quick sidebar: The NFL rights fees were just re-upped +85% - $10 billion/year; Expect to similar increases to top NCAA conferences.
The notion of amateurism was dropped many decades ago. The players deserve to get paid. If Shiano can make $5 million a year, paying $1 million or so to the football team and $250,000 to the BB team will not break the bank; it will be rightful shift in priorities.
We are -40,000,000. It isn’t because of non revenue sports.
It can’t exist with professional athletes, that’s for sure.This. College athletics is a multi-billion dollar industry. The idea a multi-billion dollar industry can exist without "professionals" is willful ignorance.
It can’t exist with professional athletes, that’s for sure.
It can’t exist with professional athletes, that’s for sure.
You want to follow RU sports is a passion using professional athletes.
That’s your idea of collegiate sports
It can’t exist with professional athletes, that’s for sure.
You want to follow RU sports is a passion using professional athletes.
That’s your idea of collegiate sports
This is how I feel. Maybe others are OK with people playing college basketball for money.It can’t exist with professional athletes, that’s for sure.
You want to follow RU sports is a passion using professional athletes.
That’s your idea of collegiate sports
This is how I feel. Maybe others are OK with people playing college basketball for money.
If we decided not to pay MLB players or NHL players, but people still pay billions to watch that fact doesn't and shouldn't make them amateurs. People pay billions of dollars to watch college athletics. Just because we call them amateurs doesn't make the players any less "valuable" than a baseball player or a hockey player.
What?If we decided not to pay MLB players or NHL players, but people still pay billions to watch that fact alone simply doesn't and shouldn't make them amateurs. People pay billions of dollars to watch college athletics. Just because we call them amateurs doesn't make the players any less "valuable" than a baseball player or a hockey player.
You people are crazy...lolA kid getting paid or not does not change the entertainment provided by the level of play on the court.
I don't get a warm special feeling when they don't get paid that makes me want to watch it even more.
This is how I feel. Maybe others are OK with people playing college basketball for money.
I paid $480,000 to put 2 of my kids through college, they graduated in 2019. How ignorant can these players be???To the 'Why now?' crowd, please stop! NOW is the perfect time for this conversation to get the attention and hopefully the traction that it deserves. The NCAA has drug their heels on this conversation for YEARS. They throw a bone out last year and then continue to delay any type of decision. It's a joke. NIL should be table stakes at this point. If the NCAA doesn't evolve, they will cease to exist. Good for Geo, Ron and others for using the platform to force conversation on change. If you think this makes them any less focused on winning a game Friday, you must have never picked up a ball in your life. They will be ready to play.
What?
Put another way. Why should MLB players have a right to strike? Why shouldn't they be forced to accept what the owners/owners of the product are willing to pay them/believe they are worth?
College players can strike. Others can take their place. The drop off won't be nearly as bad as it would be for professionals.
The name on the front of the jersey means more than the one on the back in college sports. That's not so in the pros. Hence they have more leverage.
That is being paid.No one today is arguing for paying college athletes. Although that will likely happen. What people are arguing is a college player should have control over his name, image and likeness. If a University sells a "Brian Leonard" jersey or a "Geo Baker" jersey the athlete should be compensated. If EA sports wants to use the likeness of actual college athletes they need the college athletes permission and likely some method to compensate them. They did not and should not lose those rights by accepting a scholarship. The argument against that is silly.
Not my point. Why are MLB, NFL, etc players allowed to strike?
I'll answer for you. As employees they have a right to collectively bargain. That is what will happen to college athletics if the NCAA doesn't get in front of this train. And it is coming. The same way it did 50+ years ago for the players of professional sports. Im sure @zappaa can share stories about professional baseball players who had to work second jobs. Not anymore, right?
You cant keep this system in place in a multi billion dollar industry in the United States. Labor law wont allow it. Athletics and the money in college athletics has simply gotten too large.
NCAA basketball players are allowed to strike. If Rutgers walks off the court prior to tip off, they aren't going to jail for it. No laws are being broken.
They also have the right to sue. And they are winning the lawsuits. States are passing laws allowing athletes to profit from their NIL (name, image, likeness). There's a college athlete bill of rights in Congress. That's my point. This isn't a moral argument. It's a legal one. And the players are winning. Why not get ahead of it?
https://www.npr.org/2020/04/29/8477...ser-to-getting-paid-after-ncaa-board-oks-plan
https://www.sbnation.com/22196062/college-athletes-bill-of-rights-explained-cory-booker
Those undertones again...Great. They can sue. And protest. And strike. As I said. This is America. I do like how it's turned their woke views. These kids are straight up Capitalists. That's a good thing.
Out in front of it? There is no scenario where Rutgers gets out in front of it. USC is my other team. They are the type of school that will be the ultimate winner.
Not mine. At that point I will watch the real pros. Not the D league.
No you won’t.
100%. I'm not going to watch Rutgers low level athletes get destroyed by our divisional peers who have bigger boosters who are able to pay the real professionals. Sounds awful.
100%. I'm not going to watch Rutgers low level athletes get destroyed by our divisional peers who have bigger boosters who are able to pay the real professionals. Sounds awful.