And every player at Oregon in the last 10 years has gone there because of Nike. Shoe and sports apparel company influence on college recruiting (and AAU programs) is here to stay.I remember hearing Diamond Stone went to Maryland because of Under Armour.
I love how Kansas' spokesperson on the issue puts it as being listed as a 'victim' in the corruption investigation. GMABFB.
Kansas employees illegally gave premium tickets, including very lucrative postseason tickets, to a group of KU supporters, which included Roger Morningstar, father of KU player, Brady Morningstar. The group then sold the tickets and kept the profits, which amounted to over one million dollars just from one NCAA tournament alone. Morningstar, personally, made hundreds of thousands (I've seen as much as $800,000) off of this arrangement.
There is absolutely nothing legally or morally wrong with giving away tickets to friends of the program. Nothing.
Also, in the case of Kansas, some of the KU employees involved in the ticket scandal did time in Prison. So apparently, there was something legally wrong with what they did:
http://www.espn.com/college-sports/news/story?id=6353894
It's very regulated. Every ticket right to a coach and player is tracked. Illinois even has their own software program to check on every ticket and make sure they're accounted for one way another. You have to go through that program to give tickets.
...or you sign some Johnny Manziel stuff, give it to your friend, he sells it and you party like Rock Stars for a couple nights and sit out a game or two the next season.You give it to a friend, the friend sells it on ebay, and the friend and the player split the money.
My brother was the friend. He was also an NCAA athlete at the time, but DIII so no one cares.
Well, you can't just steal them from the athletic department lol
I love how Kansas' spokesperson on the issue puts it as being listed as a 'victim' in the corruption investigation. GMABFB.
Lol this whole amateurism charade is getting to a tipping point. I have to wonder what the point of it is really. Is it the sanctity of being able to call the players "student athletes"? I really can't understand the thinking behind people who fight tooth and nail against the possibility of paying the players legally or letting them profit off their likeness legally when the NCAAMB is a BILLION dollar business and they all are going to get paid anyways illegally!
You answered your own question. It is a BILLION dollar business. The schools and the NCAA want to keep it all to themselves.
You answered your own question. It is a BILLION dollar business. The schools and the NCAA want to keep it all to themselves.
100%, but I've never understood why some fans will fight to the death to ensure college athletes never get paid. At least it seems like that sometimes.
They are getting paid. Check the value of their tuition, room, board, etc. Not sure what you paid, but paying for my three kids for 4 years is a hefty sum. If they choose to not value that, then that is on them and there are alternatives to college to play ball.
That kind of misrepresents the issue. It's not that the degree isn't valuable it's that the players are worth more to the university and the NCAA than what a degree is worth (as in monetarily). For example, Trae Young was in that NCAA tournament for a reason and it wasn't because Oklahoma was good.
...or you sign some Johnny Manziel stuff, give it to your friend, he sells it and you party like Rock Stars for a couple nights and sit out a game or two the next season.
That kind of misrepresents the issue. It's not that the degree isn't valuable it's that the players are worth more to the university and the NCAA than what a degree is worth (as in monetarily). For example, Trae Young was in that NCAA tournament for a reason and it wasn't because Oklahoma was good.
You need to provIde a name and they need to provide an I.D. to get those tickets and they're picked up at game time. At least that's how it used to work at Illinois.
They are getting paid. Check the value of their tuition, room, board, etc. Not sure what you paid, but paying for my three kids for 4 years is a hefty sum. If they choose to not value that, then that is on them
How will you overcome Title IX issues? Citing fair market value for bball and some football players will not satisfy the government, from what I understand.
For others, if you pay these athletes, what becomes of baseball, golf, softball, soccer lacrosse etc. who will pay to fund these sports?
These were Rose Bowl tickets. Maybe that's handled differently. Or maybe it was just that school, I dunno. But lots of players were making hundreds of dollars apiece. And good for them, it was a clever idea.