I dont get this mentality. Walmart makes billions off the backs of their workers for "crumbs". There's no huge movement to get then paid millions of dollars. Why are athletes more special than the rest of us?
Those players are losers and don't deserve crumbs...they deserve nothing. You are here to perform; and any player who doesn't perform should be fired and kicked out of university
@@aishabintabubakr4944they do. It’s about time they made money. It’s probably going to destroy my alma mater. Oh well. It’s a great opportunity for players . Now they can get paid and maybe take care of their future.
But most of those sports and schools lose money. So if in this look back the schools say, we’ll, they were actually employees, not students, do they send bills, including tuition, to those who played sports that cost the school money?
My pushback for that would be that competition should elevate honestly, kids coming out of high school being able to justify sports MORE because of actually getting paid? I feel like a lot more parents are going to be pushing their kids to keep up with sports if they want. Overall intrigued and excited!
I was 17 when I started playing D1 football, but knew it was a farce. Everyone was eating well, and we were all enslaved. I’m talking 16-hour days - no exaggeration. I see the ptsd playing out in myself and my brothers as we age. Payments probably go out starting in 2000.
NCAA: We agree to pay $3,000,000,000 → for the damage we've caused. Lawyers: We agree to accept $1,000,000,000 → for the connections we've made. Executives: We agree to bank the remaining $2,000,000,000 → for our desire to maintain the status quo Players/Plaintiffs: We agree to continue begging for our fair share *Watch Where the Money Goes*
Not really. It's pretty easy. Most of it is public information - First -the revenue from football & Basketball goes to other Olympic & non-Olympic sports...those days are sadly in jeopardy now. Second - it goes to coaches salaries & these crazy $75 million buyouts. Third - it goes to massive Venues that have been expanded over the past 20 years of all of these stadiums. Fourth - it goes to 180,000 scholarships the NCAA gives out yearly, yes that actually costs money...they have to PAY the universities. That's $9 billion dollars a year in scholarships. Fifth - it goes to advertising & exuberant venues for things like College Football Playoffs. Please don't write posts acting like a bunch of Execs and University Presidents are just stuffing billions in their pockets. I'm all for paying players, but the money actually mostly goes BACK toward areas of the university, stadiums or other sports, etc. If that wasn't the case, wouldn't you think we'd be hearing about how rich these individual guys were like we do Elon Musk? The NCAA CEO/President salary is $15 million...coaches make about $10million...AD's make like $1-3 million. I'm not saying that chump change, and players should get PAID, but no one is "stealing" billions in their pockets.
As someone who had to work a 3rd shift job at Walmart to pay my bills and STILL take on 18k worth of debt to pay for school im honestly bitter about this. I wouldve killed to have been able to play a sport just for the free scholarship. My life would be monumentally different right now if that had happened for me. I was always told life aint fair though so it is what it is.
you live in a 1st world country you already won the life lottery statistically speaking, there will always be people higher up in life than you it is what it is.
@@matro8147this is the truth. Living in a well-developed country is such a blessing people don't understand. Of course these countries, especially the usa, got rich through slavery and land theft, then stealing the resources from the global south. But for the people living there, the opportunities and unmatched.
So if I am a current track and XC runner at the university of Colorado. Will I be cut a check? I am confused about the 14000 plaintiffs thing. I don’t remember choosing to be part of the lawsuits.
If the players are getting paid, they don’t need full scholarships… That means the money can go to other students …. That’s the way it should be. They shouldn’t have it both ways
Ofc they can pay, is a billion dollar industry, did you think a scholarship was fair compensation for all the money they produce? ..scholarchip is change money, bootlicker
Considering that those athletic programs pay for many of other programs and services on campus….I think that the kids still being able to pursue a degree if they want, without debt, is still more than fair. How about you start with taking away a mil or 2 from the wealthy coaches to add to other students financial aid, since you’re so virtuous.
The scholarship is the lynchpin of recruiting if those were taken away kids would argue that they shouldn’t have to pass or even take classes instead they just doing a job
I will be curious what this agreement does for the CHL and NCAA. For those that are unaware if you played in the Canadian Hockey League you lost your NCAA eligibility because they deemed them professionals even though they technically weren't.
They shouldn't have to. It's not real anyway. These kids are here for the sports and they will get a degree one way or another. They make the money for the big colleges.
I’m sure I’m pretty lost on this issue, but all I see that changed is schools are allowed to pay up to $20m each year for their roster. I still don’t see how this has to do with NIL collectives at all, or the portal. If anything this could make players/families/agents even more greedy and they’ll sit out. Either make it fully professional or eliminate the NIL collectives.
Need to end the joke of a phase "student athlete". Basically NCAA sports esp. football and basketball are booster clubs for the schools and minor leagues for NFL and NBA. Employee status, collective bargaining all that will need to be worked out. NFL and NBA should be on the hook for some of this, they basically got a freebie for player development.
I can see private colleges and universities paying their players, after all, it's their money and their choice. That said, why should the tax payers who pay to support state colleges and universities which are supposed to be institutions of higher education have to pay athletes to attend. Giving a scholarship is one thing, but making colleges pay student athletes in the form of a salary will make a mockery of higher education.
That would be a mistake for a college to do that to your top athletes when they bring the money to your school. I would love if a rival school did this and I advertised that my school doesn't. Easy way to get the talent towards my program. 😂
@@AndreInThe416 "Student Athletes" GENERATE billions for college athletes and should've always been compensated, commensurate with the value they produced. The increase in tuition and the willingness to pass on the costs to students instead of cutting the fat (staff and admin that hold "make work" jobs that hold little to no value) is reflective on institutional rot at the academy. For every athlete they pay, there's hundreds of DEI chairs and "professors of basket weaving studies" that they could axe.
@@dillamadukes21 True but the majority of that money would usually stay within the athletic departments. However, by cutting out boosters and paying student athletes directly now, they will likely all count those salaries as part of the school's annual operating costs. Even if it doesn't cost them a large amount of money relative to their overall operation costs, Universities will most definitely use student athlete salaries to justify raising tuition to recoup the costs. How and by how much, remains to be seen.
One thing that has always been done - calling college players "kids". Which I understand they are young, but the moniker "kid" kinda insinuates they don't have the same rights as full fledged adults.
Why bother having Finebaum as a guest? He was given 44 seconds toward the start, and the remaining six minutes was the other two guys continually talking.
Make them pay rent or whatever if they opt out of school and do the requirement of 1 year in college athletics. Most are students and wont go pro so yes pay your schooling. Those who are gifted enough to 1 and done. Shouldnt be required to enroll in classes. They are there for the requirement of 1 year. Either way NCAA is corrupt and good for them.
will the athletes be getting paid for their likeness and still have full scholarships too? This seems like a disadvantage to the mid market and smaller schools.
"I ask other coaches to get on board, to use their platform and their voice for the student-athletes - not just football players, all student-athletes - to be sharing in this ever-increasing revenue..." Jim Harbaugh
I can’t wait til my son get to college 😂 I send him to every football camp there is in our region so he can be as great as he can be, Go D1 and get to the NFL or bare minimum overseas league
Mark my words they will only pay players now and won't offer you to attend classes if you are an employee of the University. Or make you pay full price for the education which will probably offset any pay.
And how will this affect past top tier players that got career ending injuries, like Marcus Lattimore and Tyrone Prothro? Surely there is a plan to take care of them too.
Division 3 still exists, and the people pearl clutching about amateurism could’ve been watching that level all this time. Amateurism in D1 has been a farce since the 80s lawsuit bringing extreme TV money into these institutions, let alone other forms of revenue they generated
@@RD-wg9em can’t argue against that. Good points. I wonder though how long it’s going to take until the “farce” reaches D3. Until then…Go Bellarmine!
I gave up on professional sports 30 years ago because of this same garbage. As a fan, I respect players and owners who love the game, not just themselves. There are those that love playing football, and those that love being football players.
So why are they still connected to colleges? Spin off the football and baseball as junior pro leagues, the rest can be amateur clubs. (With sports betting legal, high school seniors able to mint their future in a single NIL deal, this can either be done pro-actively or wait for the inevitable ugly decline of a monopolistic cartel being forced to share revenue.)
I’m not defending the ncaa but I’m not in agreement with this. I’m all for the kids getting the nil deals, but when you talk about paying directly, that should be a non-starter. What’s the plan to roll this out? If you’re a non-scholarship athlete sure you deserve the pay, but what about scholarship athletes? Why pay them, they’re already being paid via the scholarship in question. How do you manage that player equity? Are you limiting scholarships even more? Making the players pay on a partial scholarship? What about room and board? Is that covered? I have questions
The original plan was the same except that about it was for 3.5 billion to 3.75 billion dollars they got a deal but I’m happy to see that the current proposal is almost as identical as the original proposal and the spread out the wealth with the brothers and sisters out there ❤
Should this end all "Athletic" scholarships, I would think so. This should also be taxable income. Will athletes be required to sign legally binding contracts as opposed to National Letters of Intent? The Athletes can now pay for their education since the free education they were receiving apparently had no value. How about we retro those scholarships to taxable income as well. Athlete/Students are now just ordinary students subject to the same academic standards as all other non-athlete students. So many questions so few answers. This is a sad day in my opinion.
Why would any of this end athletic scholarships when college teams still compete for top talent? The first thing colleges and universities do in competing for desired students, athlete or otherwise, is to discount or eliminate tuition and fees for those students. This occurs in the form of academic scholarships, fellowships, tuition remission, and (for athletes), grants-in-aid. What’s your point in subverting market driven supply and demand only to the detriment of elite athletes?
@@zplapplapoh my bad less than 1% of athletes get drafted to the pros in D1 colleges every year …. You really think they all getting paid ? Nah this money is for the select few
@@ryanlebard3787 I didn’t say all. Most school will not be able to afford any of this. For those universities that continue to play football at the highest level and in power conferences, each school will annually distribute millions in athletic department revenue to a broad cross section of their athletes. It’s not just the few future pros. It’s not just men, and it’s not solely going to be those in revenue sports. How it’s distributed will reportedly be controlled by the individuals schools. How much latitude schools will actually have remains to be seems. Regardless, all will have to operate within whatever Title IX requires.
im all for this as long as they dont let these players walk all over them like in the NBA like teams and schools should be allowed to add clauses in the contracts like a student athlete needs to maintain a certain gpa or they lose a portion of the contract or if they enter the transfer portal they lose out on the rest of the contract or they could make it so they can only spend so much of the money per semester and all school expenses must be paid first i mean since they r gettin paid now there is no reason to offer these players scholarships anymore or basically clauses that revolve around making sure they get their degree cuz theres a very high chance alot of these athletes wont make it pro but theres also a very high chance of gettin ur degree if u take it seriously and do what u have to long story short this is good for college sports but it needs to be revised to ensure the main focus is still about academics
They were getting paid. They got free scholarships. Do you know how expensive college is? I'll be spending probably the rest of my life paying off mine. I wouldve played sports for just a free scholarship in a heart beat and never complained.
@cornellmelton5092 Not sure why. You're not going to see any of it and none of them care about you. They aren't going to be at your job fighting for you to get paid more money. They think you're just a peon and are worth more than you.
I’m happy this is happening but chill out Stephen A. no one is a “victim” the athletes sign up to play full well knowing they weren’t going to be paid. And frankly a lot of them were extremely lucky, blessed, and grateful for the opportunity they had to play college sports. Not to mention, many of them were paid actually by the university via scholarship covering their tuition, rooming, etc. We live in a society where people expect to receive something instead of being grateful for the opportunity they are given
I am sort of very worried that is only going to be a good thing for the 2 or 3 sports that make money at every school-- I.e.: football and men's and women's basketball-- and everyone else is going to be sitting there wondering where their money is. Stephen A sort of alluded to it my mentioning a swimmer at ASU, but I am truly curious as to how that will break down. But, I am happy to hear it.
This may sound crazy bt I think there should be a ncaapa(NCAA players Association if you don’t know what I mean) the problem is I believe finding college players who are a part of every single sport and have the time to even do it, but I think in order for the NCAA to even continue surviving. You gotta have a players association you gotta have somebody who’s willing to advocate for the players I don’t think that college has that right now.
SEC schools like “wait, now other schools can pay players?!”
don’t act like other schools weren’t paying players under the table either. look up the Dakotas
They were paying players just like the SEC. Ever heard if Reggie Bush?
😂😂😂😂
@HTHAMMACK1 nice try bringing up Reggie Bush. That's not what happened lol
Exactly
SMU is wondering where was this in the '80s? lol
I am really happy someone brought this up.
exactly, SMU is about to run the ACC
Excellent point.
Yeah I hear that school is loaded
@@Redaku418 it is both money and roster wise, it’ll fight to get in the big picture in 3 years
Only 2.8 billion they got off light compared to the trainwreck the ncaa has been for decades!!
They made just during March Madness lol NCAA and college probably have made close to a $trillion since inception
Starting left tackle 45 dollars an hour 😂😂😂😂
better than 0 dollars an hour lol
Shadeur Sanders finna sign a 100 mil contract in college
Maybe not
Of all the players, he’s not the one you pay that much.. he is so overrated, good luck
@@JJdeluxe2000#1 2025 NFL Pick
@@thatguybill34 never gonna happen!!
Worse than Jamarcus as a top pick, Shaddy is Johnny football type crap
@@JJdeluxe2000 He's not remotely similar to either of those players. Just say you don't watch football.
“Agreeing” or “Forced” after years of making billions off of the backs of student athletes for crumbs.
I dont get this mentality. Walmart makes billions off the backs of their workers for "crumbs". There's no huge movement to get then paid millions of dollars. Why are athletes more special than the rest of us?
Those players are losers and don't deserve crumbs...they deserve nothing.
You are here to perform; and any player who doesn't perform should be fired and kicked out of university
@@aishabintabubakr4944What?😂
@@aishabintabubakr4944they do. It’s about time they made money. It’s probably going to destroy my alma mater. Oh well. It’s a great opportunity for players . Now they can get paid and maybe take care of their future.
@@aishabintabubakr4944can tell u got touched asAChild
It’s time to finally put an end to the NCAA. The exploitation was so egregious for decades
corruption
Lol I love how they restored Reggie Bush Heisman Trophy right before the settlement was announced.
Definitely was calculated 😂😂
About time they got rid of those slave rules
They will always exist. Know your place.
Slave rules? Are you familiar with how actual slaves lived and were treated?
@@Tacodip420 how often did u have 2 watch that train on ur mum?
Wrong response but prepare mad because black players will benefit from this. Now, someone needs to talk to these young players to not blow their money
@@Tacodip420 How about you come show us our place boy
As a former D1 mid major player im happy it doesn't go back to when i was was playing but this is great
(ALL) D-1 Athletes from (ALL) Sports are included. This is FANTASTIC News!!!💯💯
But most of those sports and schools lose money. So if in this look back the schools say, we’ll, they were actually employees, not students, do they send bills, including tuition, to those who played sports that cost the school money?
@@zellodavis8453they pocketed BILLIONS consider it paying it “forward” 😁
This will hurt more than it helps. It’s a business. I’m the next couple of years , they will start cutting the smaller sports.
@@garuiz3487 no they won’t
@@RealBuzinessexactly, the bigger programs will still budget for the smaller sports, it's not like Title IX is going away
I’m for players getting paid, but let’s see if the product stays competitive
Oh for sure it will, extra bit of hunger knowing winners of March Madness split the Rev 👀🍿 (and not just the NIL Big names)
Trickle down effect will be nice to see, plus rev from small Universities hosting like Blue Bloods etc
The SEC will be idk about the rest.
it won’t
My pushback for that would be that competition should elevate honestly, kids coming out of high school being able to justify sports MORE because of actually getting paid? I feel like a lot more parents are going to be pushing their kids to keep up with sports if they want. Overall intrigued and excited!
This is why I love the NIL. It is forcing school to do what they have been doing out in the open.
Rick Telander called it... in 1988, in his book "The Hundred Yard Lie".
Should be more than the last 10 years
its not even the last 10 years, more like 7-8 years smh
Statute of limitations.
About time! LONG overdue!
You are a eunuch crying over crappy players who perform a trick you can teach a dog....
..."fetch, boy! Go get that ball!"
This is major, long over due and deserved.
Huge news! Let’s see how it goes…
If they start paying "student" athlete's, they should raise the pay of the employees who coordinate the events first.
Make this make any sense
Zion and Caitlyn Clark bouta get a bag
The unforeseen consequences of this are going to be fascinating to watch.
What a win for the young athletes in college. Fantastic 😊!!
The way Molly introduced Jay man haha
😂😂😂😂
Alright!!! I'll be waiting for my $3.48 check in the mail. I played 5 years at Ona State Technical Service College of Agricultural University.
I was 17 when I started playing D1 football, but knew it was a farce. Everyone was eating well, and we were all enslaved. I’m talking 16-hour days - no exaggeration. I see the ptsd playing out in myself and my brothers as we age. Payments probably go out starting in 2000.
NCAA: We agree to pay $3,000,000,000 → for the damage we've caused.
Lawyers: We agree to accept $1,000,000,000 → for the connections we've made.
Executives: We agree to bank the remaining $2,000,000,000 → for our desire to maintain the status quo
Players/Plaintiffs: We agree to continue begging for our fair share
*Watch Where the Money Goes*
No different than the NFL an concussions....
Well said
If I recall correctly, the lawyer fees are to be paid by the defendants, separate from litigation funds.
Makes you wonder who was getting all this money before thst they are allowing the players to have and who is getting the rest of the billions.
Not really. It's pretty easy. Most of it is public information - First -the revenue from football & Basketball goes to other Olympic & non-Olympic sports...those days are sadly in jeopardy now. Second - it goes to coaches salaries & these crazy $75 million buyouts. Third - it goes to massive Venues that have been expanded over the past 20 years of all of these stadiums. Fourth - it goes to 180,000 scholarships the NCAA gives out yearly, yes that actually costs money...they have to PAY the universities. That's $9 billion dollars a year in scholarships. Fifth - it goes to advertising & exuberant venues for things like College Football Playoffs.
Please don't write posts acting like a bunch of Execs and University Presidents are just stuffing billions in their pockets. I'm all for paying players, but the money actually mostly goes BACK toward areas of the university, stadiums or other sports, etc. If that wasn't the case, wouldn't you think we'd be hearing about how rich these individual guys were like we do Elon Musk? The NCAA CEO/President salary is $15 million...coaches make about $10million...AD's make like $1-3 million. I'm not saying that chump change, and players should get PAID, but no one is "stealing" billions in their pockets.
As someone who had to work a 3rd shift job at Walmart to pay my bills and STILL take on 18k worth of debt to pay for school im honestly bitter about this. I wouldve killed to have been able to play a sport just for the free scholarship. My life would be monumentally different right now if that had happened for me. I was always told life aint fair though so it is what it is.
you live in a 1st world country you already won the life lottery statistically speaking, there will always be people higher up in life than you it is what it is.
@@matro8147this is the truth. Living in a well-developed country is such a blessing people don't understand.
Of course these countries, especially the usa, got rich through slavery and land theft, then stealing the resources from the global south.
But for the people living there, the opportunities and unmatched.
you should have learned how to run, jump or throw a ball.
So if I am a current track and XC runner at the university of Colorado. Will I be cut a check? I am confused about the 14000 plaintiffs thing. I don’t remember choosing to be part of the lawsuits.
S/O Paul for talking that talk!
Its about time. No more labor without compensation.
If the players are getting paid, they don’t need full scholarships…
That means the money can go to other students …. That’s the way it should be.
They shouldn’t have it both ways
PREACH
THANK YOU
Ofc they can pay, is a billion dollar industry, did you think a scholarship was fair compensation for all the money they produce? ..scholarchip is change money, bootlicker
Tuition is officially a death sentence
Considering that those athletic programs pay for many of other programs and services on campus….I think that the kids still being able to pursue a degree if they want, without debt, is still more than fair. How about you start with taking away a mil or 2 from the wealthy coaches to add to other students financial aid, since you’re so virtuous.
I could listen to this topic for hours
They need to take that all the way back to the 90's!!!
About bloody time.
Then get rid of full scholarships....
Wouldn't work unless you're talking about only for the athletes because full ride scholarships also apply to non athletes as well.
Or cut tuition so that kids can afford to go to college regardless of how high they can jump.
The scholarship is the lynchpin of recruiting if those were taken away kids would argue that they shouldn’t have to pass or even take classes instead they just doing a job
Let just hope they don't pass the cost onto regular student tutions. The whole university system in the USA is very predatory
They should cover players that got injured that never rebounded.
HUGE MOVE! Shame it stops at 2016...
I will be curious what this agreement does for the CHL and NCAA. For those that are unaware if you played in the Canadian Hockey League you lost your NCAA eligibility because they deemed them professionals even though they technically weren't.
Next up, classes optional. What’s the point forcing these -student- athletes to go to class?
So they should be playing for free?? You are a joke !!! You don’t want to see majority of black players getting paid…just admit it lol
It should be optional is a joke of a farm system
They shouldn't have to. It's not real anyway. These kids are here for the sports and they will get a degree one way or another. They make the money for the big colleges.
@MichaelWalker-wu2pq… let’s be real? Most schools have how many pros per team? I know for basketball at least the number is very very small
@@ryanlebard3787 it differs from school to school. The revenue they generate for these schools is staggering though.
Schools will start to charge/deduct in state and out of state tuition.
Correction - they will now use this as an excuse.... to charge more etc. etc.
I’m sure I’m pretty lost on this issue, but all I see that changed is schools are allowed to pay up to $20m each year for their roster. I still don’t see how this has to do with NIL collectives at all, or the portal. If anything this could make players/families/agents even more greedy and they’ll sit out. Either make it fully professional or eliminate the NIL collectives.
Need to end the joke of a phase "student athlete". Basically NCAA sports esp. football and basketball are booster clubs for the schools and minor leagues for NFL and NBA. Employee status, collective bargaining all that will need to be worked out. NFL and NBA should be on the hook for some of this, they basically got a freebie for player development.
I can see private colleges and universities paying their players, after all, it's their money and their choice. That said, why should the tax payers who pay to support state colleges and universities which are supposed to be institutions of higher education have to pay athletes to attend. Giving a scholarship is one thing, but making colleges pay student athletes in the form of a salary will make a mockery of higher education.
This is gonna be bad. Most sports lose money. The business side will say to eliminate some of the sports / athletes.
Taxes will be paid also helmets pads housing all will no longer be paid ..lets talk about that part
That would be a mistake for a college to do that to your top athletes when they bring the money to your school. I would love if a rival school did this and I advertised that my school doesn't. Easy way to get the talent towards my program. 😂
I don’t like pay for play, but coaches making over 10 mil per year blows my mind!
If they are employees won't that make 4yr eligibility illegal? You can't be discriminated against based on age right?
Tuition will increase. Great work. Just remember why those schools exist in the first place.
The inverse is true; sports programs at these schools and the revenue generated from the venues and merch FUND these schools.
@@dillamadukes21 their costs just went up, therefore to balance the equation, they will raise tuition
@@AndreInThe416 "Student Athletes" GENERATE billions for college athletes and should've always been compensated, commensurate with the value they produced. The increase in tuition and the willingness to pass on the costs to students instead of cutting the fat (staff and admin that hold "make work" jobs that hold little to no value) is reflective on institutional rot at the academy. For every athlete they pay, there's hundreds of DEI chairs and "professors of basket weaving studies" that they could axe.
@@dillamadukes21 True but the majority of that money would usually stay within the athletic departments. However, by cutting out boosters and paying student athletes directly now, they will likely all count those salaries as part of the school's annual operating costs. Even if it doesn't cost them a large amount of money relative to their overall operation costs, Universities will most definitely use student athlete salaries to justify raising tuition to recoup the costs. How and by how much, remains to be seen.
@@dillamadukes21 I'm just explaining the financial reality via experience in this sector.
One thing that has always been done - calling college players "kids". Which I understand they are young, but the moniker "kid" kinda insinuates they don't have the same rights as full fledged adults.
About $172,000 for every plaintiff
Nah, it should be allocated based on an estimate of who brought the most money in.
“Ay Paul what you tell em, leave the sides, leave the sides 🤣🤣”
G5 schools need to break away from FBS and D1 immediately, it’s a joke
The group 5 schools will all get paid to their under Division 1 Also .
@@cornellmelton5092 it’s not equal
@@GoatedAtNFS it might not be equal, but at the same time .I'm happy the G5 are getting paid also they deserve it
Why bother having Finebaum as a guest? He was given 44 seconds toward the start, and the remaining six minutes was the other two guys continually talking.
It's a W although long overdue.
I just don't want to see them pass the expense off on student tuitions, activity fees, etc.
Make them now pay for their tuition.
Good point!
Make them pay rent or whatever if they opt out of school and do the requirement of 1 year in college athletics. Most are students and wont go pro so yes pay your schooling. Those who are gifted enough to 1 and done. Shouldnt be required to enroll in classes. They are there for the requirement of 1 year. Either way NCAA is corrupt and good for them.
They already do…. It’s called a scholarship
will the athletes be getting paid for their likeness and still have full scholarships too? This seems like a disadvantage to the mid market and smaller schools.
Im down for all this, but there will be a day where you get cut for on field performance.
It’s always been like that lol
I mean……what other choice did they have??
Finally...these players deserve it
"I ask other coaches to get on board, to use their platform and their voice for the student-athletes - not just football players, all student-athletes - to be sharing in this ever-increasing revenue..."
Jim Harbaugh
Give me a break. Players have been paid for years.
Long over due!
I said it once and I'll say it again
David Stern is a criminal
I can’t wait til my son get to college 😂 I send him to every football camp there is in our region so he can be as great as he can be, Go D1 and get to the NFL or bare minimum overseas league
Mark my words they will only pay players now and won't offer you to attend classes if you are an employee of the University. Or make you pay full price for the education which will probably offset any pay.
That's how it should be.
And how will this affect past top tier players that got career ending injuries, like Marcus Lattimore and Tyrone Prothro? Surely there is a plan to take care of them too.
The big 10 conference has the most money of any power 5. i wonder will this translate to more wins now
And this is the last season I give a crap about college athletics. In memoriam: what athletic competition truly embodied, amateur college sports
Amateur ideals have value, to me. Major college football is not an amateur sport.
Division 3 still exists, and the people pearl clutching about amateurism could’ve been watching that level all this time.
Amateurism in D1 has been a farce since the 80s lawsuit bringing extreme TV money into these institutions, let alone other forms of revenue they generated
@@RD-wg9em can’t argue against that. Good points. I wonder though how long it’s going to take until the “farce” reaches D3. Until then…Go Bellarmine!
I think college athletes should get paid for their likeness but I don't think colleges/universities should pay players straight up.
Why not? Don't other kids working jobs on these campuses get "paid straight up"?
So at what point does it trickle down? When do kids in high school start getting paid? Their brand starts at that level if not sooner.
I gave up on professional sports 30 years ago because of this same garbage. As a fan, I respect players and owners who love the game, not just themselves. There are those that love playing football, and those that love being football players.
Watch the players not have any reverence for those who made this happen.
So why are they still connected to colleges? Spin off the football and baseball as junior pro leagues, the rest can be amateur clubs. (With sports betting legal, high school seniors able to mint their future in a single NIL deal, this can either be done pro-actively or wait for the inevitable ugly decline of a monopolistic cartel being forced to share revenue.)
probably gonna make it less competitive but fair is fair these athletes deserve to get paid
gracias
I’m not defending the ncaa but I’m not in agreement with this. I’m all for the kids getting the nil deals, but when you talk about paying directly, that should be a non-starter. What’s the plan to roll this out? If you’re a non-scholarship athlete sure you deserve the pay, but what about scholarship athletes? Why pay them, they’re already being paid via the scholarship in question. How do you manage that player equity? Are you limiting scholarships even more? Making the players pay on a partial scholarship? What about room and board? Is that covered? I have questions
They are not "kids", they are adults.
This is Great for the kids because now they don't have to rush for the NBA after one year!
The 2016 thing should not be added
Players don’t take advantage of this, stay focused and locked in
The original plan was the same except that about it was for 3.5 billion to 3.75 billion dollars they got a deal but I’m happy to see that the current proposal is almost as identical as the original proposal and the spread out the wealth with the brothers and sisters out there ❤
Get rid of scholarships and make them pay to attend.
Huge W
I really hope this doesn’t kill Olympic Sports.
What exactly does mean for former athletes after 2016
These schools have been benefitting from free athletic performances for decades. It's about time they paid student athletes.
They literally get paid with free tuition, they’re not professional athletes so they shouldn’t be treated like one
Basically there paying previous players reparations. How about reparations for descendants of slaves America!
So since they are playing players do they have to be students??? And go to class??? They employees just like campus security etc.....
Schools been secretly doing this for the longest now they don’t gotta hide it 😂😂😂
My question is, how does this affect Olympic sports? Also, where does Title IX fit in?
Should this end all "Athletic" scholarships, I would think so. This should also be taxable income. Will athletes be required to sign legally binding contracts as opposed to National Letters of Intent? The Athletes can now pay for their education since the free education they were receiving apparently had no value. How about we retro those scholarships to taxable income as well. Athlete/Students are now just ordinary students subject to the same academic standards as all other non-athlete students. So many questions so few answers. This is a sad day in my opinion.
Why would any of this end athletic scholarships when college teams still compete for top talent? The first thing colleges and universities do in competing for desired students, athlete or otherwise, is to discount or eliminate tuition and fees for those students. This occurs in the form of academic scholarships, fellowships, tuition remission, and (for athletes), grants-in-aid. What’s your point in subverting market driven supply and demand only to the detriment of elite athletes?
Y’all are acting like they are gonna pay every student athlete 😂 please every school would be lucky to have a handful of future pros per year
@@ryanlebard3787 There are cavernous gaps in your learning. 😂
@@zplapplapoh my bad less than 1% of athletes get drafted to the pros in D1 colleges every year …. You really think they all getting paid ? Nah this money is for the select few
@@ryanlebard3787 I didn’t say all. Most school will not be able to afford any of this. For those universities that continue to play football at the highest level and in power conferences, each school will annually distribute millions in athletic department revenue to a broad cross section of their athletes. It’s not just the few future pros. It’s not just men, and it’s not solely going to be those in revenue sports. How it’s distributed will reportedly be controlled by the individuals schools. How much latitude schools will actually have remains to be seems. Regardless, all will have to operate within whatever Title IX requires.
Anybody if it's just Dl?
Awesome 💯
im all for this as long as they dont let these players walk all over them like in the NBA like teams and schools should be allowed to add clauses in the contracts like a student athlete needs to maintain a certain gpa or they lose a portion of the contract or if they enter the transfer portal they lose out on the rest of the contract or they could make it so they can only spend so much of the money per semester and all school expenses must be paid first i mean since they r gettin paid now there is no reason to offer these players scholarships anymore or basically clauses that revolve around making sure they get their degree cuz theres a very high chance alot of these athletes wont make it pro but theres also a very high chance of gettin ur degree if u take it seriously and do what u have to long story short this is good for college sports but it needs to be revised to ensure the main focus is still about academics
Just give everyone 5 thousand a month until the season over with thats fair
It's about time theses players get paid
They were getting paid. They got free scholarships. Do you know how expensive college is? I'll be spending probably the rest of my life paying off mine. I wouldve played sports for just a free scholarship in a heart beat and never complained.
@@AK-sq1jl like I said I have my opinion and like I said I'm happy players are getting paid now .
@@AK-sq1jl We don't know how this will shake out. I'm sure the value of the education will be calculated as part of the pay.
@@shedflipsIt needs to be.
@cornellmelton5092 Not sure why. You're not going to see any of it and none of them care about you. They aren't going to be at your job fighting for you to get paid more money. They think you're just a peon and are worth more than you.
Looks like a couple of us about to get some type of money
This will destroy title 9.
I’m happy this is happening but chill out Stephen A. no one is a “victim” the athletes sign up to play full well knowing they weren’t going to be paid. And frankly a lot of them were extremely lucky, blessed, and grateful for the opportunity they had to play college sports. Not to mention, many of them were paid actually by the university via scholarship covering their tuition, rooming, etc. We live in a society where people expect to receive something instead of being grateful for the opportunity they are given
I am sort of very worried that is only going to be a good thing for the 2 or 3 sports that make money at every school-- I.e.: football and men's and women's basketball-- and everyone else is going to be sitting there wondering where their money is. Stephen A sort of alluded to it my mentioning a swimmer at ASU, but I am truly curious as to how that will break down. But, I am happy to hear it.
This may sound crazy bt I think there should be a ncaapa(NCAA players Association if you don’t know what I mean) the problem is I believe finding college players who are a part of every single sport and have the time to even do it, but I think in order for the NCAA to even continue surviving. You gotta have a players association you gotta have somebody who’s willing to advocate for the players I don’t think that college has that right now.