07-31-2026, 10:33 AM
100 College Women's Basketball players to Stanford football players: "hold our beers!"
https://www.espn.com/womens-college-bask...ion-effort
This just makes so much more sense to me now that revenue-generating collegiate sports are professional sports in everything but name. You could call the NBA and NFL "revenue sharing" with the players - and indeed some of their total compensation does come from certain net revenues - but in my mind there's no principled difference between how professional players are compensated and collegiate players are.
https://www.espn.com/womens-college-bask...ion-effort
This just makes so much more sense to me now that revenue-generating collegiate sports are professional sports in everything but name. You could call the NBA and NFL "revenue sharing" with the players - and indeed some of their total compensation does come from certain net revenues - but in my mind there's no principled difference between how professional players are compensated and collegiate players are.