I have a difficult time equating D1 football with slavery or indentured servitude. Nor do I think college football players need to be unionized. If they need to be unionized, then every employee need to be unionized. How about people in the military? Shouldn't they have unions, more rights, more money? Shouldn't they be subject to regular laws instead of the UCMJ?
The compensation model for intercollegiate, varsity D1 football players is substantial, though I would say that the compensation model is more like selling commercial real estate. You work your tail off and don't get paid for two years, then you make bank. Or more accurately, you make significantly more money and benefits over your lifetime than if you hadn't been a college football player.
The typical football player is granted entrance to a university that they could never have qualified for in the first place. The value of a Stanford degree cannot be understated. In fact, the value of any collegiate degree cannot be understated if the individual wasn't going to college in the first place. This is an unbelievable value. Essentially, it's a guaranteed admission to the reach-iest of reach schools, something that 99.99% of all college applicants desperately desire, and the football player takes it for granted. How much does an SJSU grad make over a lifetime compared to a high school grad? Definitely more on average, and depending on the major, could be considerably more. Significant value. Football players take it for granted.
D1 football players get everything paid; tuition, room, training table, medical, books, etc.. Everything free. I know how much it cost to put my two through a private school. More value. More taking for granted.
it's a 40 year decision. Football players benefit from the contact networks you find in college from ages 18-22. People who hire you, or buy your product or service, or refer you to people, or give you recommendations, or bring you into their social networks. Significant value. Taken for granted.
The type of football player who gets paid is the type who is getting ready for the NFL or CFL, so their collegiate training applies to their future vocation, whether as player or coach. On-the-job training, big value. Taken for granted.
So in summary, you're telling me that the "slave/indentured servant/need-to-be-unionized" players must also get a salary? Those players who get all these things:
1) Reach school access
2) Highly renumerative degree
3) All expenses paid
4) Significant lifetime networks
5) On-the-job training for the NFL
A. Y. F. K. M. But we must also be paid, says the football player who takes all of the above for granted. Such arrogance. I'm sick of it. A normal student would kill for such a deal. So it's time for a developmental league. Forget about college, you football players that wouldn't get to college in any other country but this one. Go be young semipros.
The compensation model for intercollegiate, varsity D1 football players is substantial, though I would say that the compensation model is more like selling commercial real estate. You work your tail off and don't get paid for two years, then you make bank. Or more accurately, you make significantly more money and benefits over your lifetime than if you hadn't been a college football player.
The typical football player is granted entrance to a university that they could never have qualified for in the first place. The value of a Stanford degree cannot be understated. In fact, the value of any collegiate degree cannot be understated if the individual wasn't going to college in the first place. This is an unbelievable value. Essentially, it's a guaranteed admission to the reach-iest of reach schools, something that 99.99% of all college applicants desperately desire, and the football player takes it for granted. How much does an SJSU grad make over a lifetime compared to a high school grad? Definitely more on average, and depending on the major, could be considerably more. Significant value. Football players take it for granted.
D1 football players get everything paid; tuition, room, training table, medical, books, etc.. Everything free. I know how much it cost to put my two through a private school. More value. More taking for granted.
it's a 40 year decision. Football players benefit from the contact networks you find in college from ages 18-22. People who hire you, or buy your product or service, or refer you to people, or give you recommendations, or bring you into their social networks. Significant value. Taken for granted.
The type of football player who gets paid is the type who is getting ready for the NFL or CFL, so their collegiate training applies to their future vocation, whether as player or coach. On-the-job training, big value. Taken for granted.
So in summary, you're telling me that the "slave/indentured servant/need-to-be-unionized" players must also get a salary? Those players who get all these things:
1) Reach school access
2) Highly renumerative degree
3) All expenses paid
4) Significant lifetime networks
5) On-the-job training for the NFL
A. Y. F. K. M. But we must also be paid, says the football player who takes all of the above for granted. Such arrogance. I'm sick of it. A normal student would kill for such a deal. So it's time for a developmental league. Forget about college, you football players that wouldn't get to college in any other country but this one. Go be young semipros.
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