College Playoffs - Did they get it right?

[Brian Fein]

Of course you have to pay all athletes!  You can't pick and choose...  everything you discuss must happen across the board.  Otherwise the system has potential to become even more corrupt than before. 

Just because football makes more money doesn't mean the swim team doesn't have a similar schedule requirement.  What makes the swim team less valuable?  What makes the backup center on the football team less valuable than a starting LB? 

You guys are talking like "we're only going to pay the stars!" - where do you draw the line between "stars" and "Schmoes?"  Who makes those decisions?   You don't see how that could easily become corrupt?

[Spider-Dan]

For the third time: scholarships can be part of the compensation package.  This shouldn't be a foreign concept, since it's the go-to retort any time someone talks about compensating athletes in college.

Furthermore, based on the talk so far in this thread, one would surmise that the concept of partial-ride scholarships is a glaringly obvious lawsuit waiting to happen.  Some "student athletes" already get compensated more than others in the current system.

[masterfins]

I believe you would have to pay all athletes, in all sports, because of Title IX.  Just as you have to have an equal number of sports teams for women, I believe you would also have to pay the women's volleyball players if you are going to pay the men's football team players.

[Spider-Dan]

Women's volleyball players don't get the same practice facilities or travel accommodations as the football team.  They also don't get the same number of scholarships.

That being said, Title IX does appear to indicate that a system that paid players would have to split those funds relative to the gender proportion of athletes.  So if a university had 70% male athletes and 30% female, the starting money pool would have to be 70/30 and subdivided from there.

In practice, I think this would mean the women's basketball teams would be getting paid handsomely.  I'm OK with it.

[Dave Gray]

As is, some players get a full scholarships for tuition.
Others get that + meals and books.
Others get just a partial.
Others get nothing.

Just like at a business.

Some people get paid huge salaries + bonuses + a company car.
Others just get salary + benefits.
Others get salary.
Others get part-time at a lower rate.
Sometimes people are interns.

[Tenshot13]

Do you realize that if you see Jameis Winston in a bar that you can't buy him a drink?  What...the...fuck? 

As long as he isn't buying me a drink...because it's probably ruffied....you know, the whole rape thing.