Ohhh, how quick everyone was to vilify USC, when the truth is this kind of thing goes on throughout NCAA Division I programs. Everyone was just happy to jump into the USC feeding frenzy because they'd been winning so much for so long.
Closets open folks, there's the skeletons!
Wow. Sports Illustrated has just released an article detailing some of the things going on during the Tressel tenure. I don't see how he didn't know about all this stuff. Check out the article here.
Now Pryor is leaving school. Way to not man up to your mistakes and run like a B@$TCH! Tressel and Pryor really showed their true colors these past couple of weeks. What kind of an idiot pulls up to the school to say goodbye to Tressel in a different, new car?
What they need to do when all these penalties are handed down is take back the 01 championship, and give it back to its rightful owners, the Miami Hurricanes. Wonder how much that official who through the flag 10 seconds after the play was over cost the Buckeyes![]()
The NCAA is a joke just like the BCS, but it isn't about the integrity of the game but making the biggest buck. If the kids are going to be used like pawns let them make some money on the side. When the NCAA wants to set fair rules and also abide by them maybe we can fix the mess with college sports.
The college athletes need to be payed, at least some sort of fair hourly wage. The work extremely hard to generate millions in revenue for a school. Then they have to be students, too, and possibly have a part time job. Their reward? For most, it's just a college degree. Take the scandals out of the program and let these kids just play a game.
As for the Buckeyes, yeah, wre pretty much screwed for the next few seasons, but it's such an overall quality program, some hot young coach will have them in the title hunt in the next 3-4 years.
Did no one tell him there was a lockout on?And the hits just keep coming for Ohio State. CBS is reporting that Terrelle Pryor will not play his last year of eligibility at OSU.
The college athletes need to be payed, at least some sort of fair hourly wage.
How much revenue do you generate for your employer, and do you complain about the compensation?Tilpots said:The work extremely hard to generate millions in revenue for a school.
NCAA rules prohibit student athletes from holding jobs during the school year.Tilpots said:Then they have to be students, too, and possibly have a part time job.
What's a college degree worth? Hard to quantify reliably, but definitely worth more than not having one. I've heard the $1 million more statistic thrown about, but I don't know how accurate that is. I'm guessing that number goes down for the gimme degrees, and up for real, marketable degrees.Tilpots said:Their reward? For most, it's just a college degree.
The NCAA is the biggest scam in sports. These D1A programs generate HUNDREDS OF MILLIONS of dollars off of these athletes risking serious injury, and they don't get anything for it... everything goes to the school. It's quite ********.
Going off this data sheet, the average cost of attendance for a year at OSU is $31,704 (I averaged in- and out-of-state costs). Not taking into account year over year increases, a full 4 year scholarship comes to $126,816. Assuming that being on a sports team is the equivalent of a 20 hour/week part time job, that's almost $32 an hour. That's also net, not gross, as there are no taxes to pay. Now your experience might be different, but I would have given my left testicle for a job that paid that while I was still an undergrad. Hell, I'd love to have a job that paid that well now that I'm out of school.
Your math is so off it's laughable. 20 hrs a week? It's their entire life 24 hrs a day, from what they eat, to what they think, to what they do. And you think every player on the team gets a full ride? You need a decent college education yourself. And while your testicles are safe, these kids put their bodies at risk every time they take the field. That's ballsy.
The colleges exploit theses kids. Plain and simple. The NCAA is a joke.
Did no one tell him there was a lockout on?
24 hours a day, huh? Are they practicing when they're in class or the lab? Running drills under a coach's tutelage in the dining hall? Watching tapes in the shower or on the potty? Lifting weights in the gym while they're asleep? Your assertion is laughably bunk.
You can bet the "exploited" stars get the full rides and pay for hardly anything out of pocket. Third string benchwarmers, eh might grant you that one.
How about this - you find how many hours a week on average one of these student athletes spends at actually being an athlete and get back to us. Then we can do the math again and see just how hard they have it.
As for putting bodies at risk, so do any number of professions, including but not limited to police, firemen, high-rise construction workers, coal miners, and lion tamers. Do you say they're being exploited too?
Football players in the NCAA's Division I Bowl Subdivision (formerly known as Division I-A) said they spent an average of 44.8 hours a week on their sport playing games, practicing, training and in the training room compared with a little less than 40 hours on academic
The NCAA brings in $4 billion annually through television deals, video game rights, ticket sales, and merchandise, yet college athletes receive none of this money in return for their services. Does this seem fair to you? Even the coaches of the players receive million dollar salaries.
I found it fascinating that the NCAA President, Mark Emmert, believes that college athletes deserve a little more than just their scholarships.
At the end of the day, the bottom line is this: athletes and their families deserve labor rights. Whether the athlete gets a degree is irrelevant when compared to the millions that have been extracted from him, and even if he goes on to play professional sports, this makes the crime no less significant. The truth is that college athletes in revenue-generating sports are treated as neither Americans nor college students. Their ability to enjoy college is stripped by the rigors of their professional sports schedules and Draconian training regimen, thrust upon them by money-hungry coaches who could care less about education. The idea that Congress has conspired with the NCAA to allow athlete labor rights to be taken away in a manner that would be illegal in nearly any other industry adds insult to injury. Keeping athletes and their families in poverty while coaches and administrators get rich is not only fundamentally un-American, it is an embarrassment to us all.