10-04-2019, 02:31 PM
I will agree college athletes shouldn't earn compensation as soon as the universities profiting off them don't try earning money off of them.
The term "student athlete" was invented by the NCAA to make exploiting athletes sound more palpable.
I'm not arguing a college scholarship isn't valuable. The issue is people having their rights to earn whatever they can, taken away and given to someone else. If the end result of allowing athletes to earn money for their NIL ends up reducing the number of schools seriously competing for championships to 40 or whatever, so be it. If that's what the market is, that's what it is.
The other alternative is collective bargaining, where athletes unionize in their respective sports and agree to working conditions and compensation frameworks that can limit what someone can be paid by consent.
The term "student athlete" was invented by the NCAA to make exploiting athletes sound more palpable.
I'm not arguing a college scholarship isn't valuable. The issue is people having their rights to earn whatever they can, taken away and given to someone else. If the end result of allowing athletes to earn money for their NIL ends up reducing the number of schools seriously competing for championships to 40 or whatever, so be it. If that's what the market is, that's what it is.
The other alternative is collective bargaining, where athletes unionize in their respective sports and agree to working conditions and compensation frameworks that can limit what someone can be paid by consent.