New NCAA rule to ban postseason play for teams who fail to meet APR requirements

[FirstTimer]

Did they also work 80 hour weeks to line the pockets of their supervisors?

Depends how much time they put in at the library?............ and I would think their tuition and taxes pay their professors salaries so yes.... they "worked" to pay their supervisors.

[FirstTimer]

Did they also work 80 hour weeks to line the pockets of their supervisors? A full ride isn't really that great of a deal when you factor in that these guys aren't allowed to even have jobs. They're getting less than minimum wage when you count up all the time they commit to practices, meetings, lifting and class.

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Awwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww

Boo fucking hoo.

Free ride>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>.student loans AND having to work a minimum wage job in college.

[FirstTimer]

[NAHSTE]

Awwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww

Boo fucking hoo.

Free ride>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>.student loans AND having to work a minimum wage job in college.

But, they should still be paid at least minimum wage. The NCAA is morally corrupt if it continues to say with a straight face that they run an amateur athletic organization. They are a for profit capitalist corporation and they need to enforce better labor practices before they make all these stupid rules.

IDGAF if you feel sorry for them or not, that's not the point. The point is the NCAA sucks.

[FirstTimer]

My wife pays $600 a month in student loan debt. I'm sure she would have loved to have been "exploited" in college by playing a sport to not have that issue.....

[NAHSTE]

My wife pays $600 a month in student loan debt. I'm sure she would have loved to have been "exploited" in college by playing a sport to not have that issue.....

She would probably still be in debt because women athletes don't get paid much and being a woman, she probably has a shopping addiction.

[Boucher]

your wife should have been in the kitchen not at school

[NAHSTE]

your wife should have been in the kitchen not at school

Most of us will be going pro in something other than sports.

[FirstTimer]

But, they should still be paid at least minimum wage.

No they shouldn't.

I love how this all gets directed towards football when it overlooks the fact that no one gives a shit if the swimmer getting a full ride gets paid. You can say the NCAA makes billions, whatever. Do not care. 99.9% of athletes in college don't go pro in shit...and they realize the value of playing a game is in the free education. I'm not making an exception for football or basketball.

Do you honestly feel like EVERY single scholarship athlete should be paid?

[FirstTimer]

She would probably still be in debt because women athletes don't get paid much and being a woman, she probably has a shopping addiction.

You think I let that bitch shop? her nights revolve around fellating me while I talk shit to you assholes.

[blstuart]

Now some Asian kid will report to class as "Jared Sullinger" come finals time at Ohio St.

[FirstTimer]

Now some Asian kid will report to class as "Jared Sullinger" come finals time at Ohio St.

I know his cousin...Derrick Rose.

[NAHSTE]

No they shouldn't.

I love how this all gets directed towards football when it overlooks the fact that no one gives a shit if the swimmer getting a full ride gets paid. You can say the NCAA makes billions, whatever. Do not care. 99.9% of athletes in college don't go pro in shit...and they realize the value of playing a game is in the free education. I'm not making an exception for football or basketball.

Do you honestly feel like EVERY single scholarship athlete should be paid?

Why not? I got paid 7.50 an hour to make a shitty TV show twice a week. I mostly sat on the couch next to my classroom and dicked around. If I can do that and get paid, these guys should be getting compensated for all the time they spend.

I think the NCAA can afford to break a few bread crumbs off of these gigantic TV deals:

The Pac-10 -- soon to officially become the Pac-12 -- has agreed to a 12-year television contract with ESPN and Fox that will more than triple its media rights fees and be the most valuable for any conference in college sports.

The contract, which will begin with the 2012-13 season, will be worth more than $225 million per year -- or $2.7 billion over the life of the deal, Sports Business Daily and The Associated Press reported on Tuesday.

ESPN is playing Texas $300 million over the next 20 years for the privilege of distributing the network.

SEC Commissioner Mike Slive Friday announced that the conference "will distribute about $209.0 million this year -- an average of $17.3 million to each school," according to Scott Hotard of the Baton Rouge ADVOCATE. That figure is up 57.7% from '09, when schools divided about $132.5M. This year's revenue was "the first to reflect the financial benefits" of the SEC's "lucrative 15-year contracts with CBS and ESPN." Hotard noted a difference of $65.6M "in TV provided most" of the record $66.5M revenue increase. The SEC this year "generated $109.5 million from football television and $30 million from basketball television"

There's money to go around. Pay your employees, you rich fucks.

[FirstTimer]

Why not?

You honestly advocate paying the Boise State XC team?

I got paid 7.50 an hour to make a shitty TV show twice a week. I mostly sat on the couch next to my classroom and dicked around. If I can do that and get paid, these guys should be getting compensated for all the time they spend.

I think the NCAA can afford to break a few bread crumbs off of these gigantic TV deals:

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Were you on a free ride? Because if so the school wasn't paying you to begin with.

Point of reference. A year at ND costs over 40k a year. How many people here make more than that a year?

How many people at Microsoft, a company that makes shit tons of money, make at that or less than that? I don't get people's outrage/shock that an organization that makes that much money doesn't "pay" people more. Fuck it. These guys are getting by with out having to pay back over 100K over the course of 4 years and have the chance to get degrees that will net them incredibly solid incomes and network with people all over that can help them post graduation. Pardon me if I could give a shit whether Tommy Rees makes minimum wage from the NCAA

[mgoblue2290]

Say you pay them minimum wage and everyone is happy for 1-2 years. I bet you'd have a strike or something at some point with major athletes demanding more money.

Also should only be big time sports like basketball and football, or should every single scholarship athlete in any sport be paid? It is way too slippery of a slope to start paying them.