Mar 28th 2014, 20:51:08
I agree with a "workmans comp" fund for injured athletes to get treated and rehabbed for injuires sustained while playing/practing for their school. If that is the goal of the unionazation, then go for it. However; the idea that athletes make money universities and they should get a "piece of the pie" is inaccruate 99 % of the time. Only top tier Div I athletic programs turns a profit, and even then several, including my alma mater Florida St, chage an athethics fee on top of tuition.
For the few atheltes that generate a large amount of cash for the unviserities, give them a cut of jersey sales regardless of sport, that seems fair to me. Let the market demand determine how much a player is 'paid'. That is the way I would support "paying" a player.
Adding any substanial stipend will have the determinal effect of cutting baseball, track, softall, volleyball, golf teams, etc...those sports are money losers at all levels. Big college football and basketball will live on.
There was talk recently of bumping iup the schoalorships to the "full cost of attendence", but that idea wasn't shot down by the big football conference...but by small div I and div II schools whose balance sheets are already in the red.