Business owner who becomes wildly successful and doesnāt pass any on to his employees, no raises etc is an asshole. I never said said a player should be paid the same as coaches etc. I said it cannot stay status quo for the players while every other person involved reaps the immediate benefits. This has zero to do with the scam that is student loans and the debt that folks incur getting a degree that may or may not allow them to pay off that debt. Nor does it have anything to do with companies farming out work to cheap labor in other countries. That is all obfuscation of the point CFB as a whole is a multi billion dollar business. Change is coming and it is driven by the amount of money the product is bringing in.
So if you become a millionaire, your accounts payable team should make scale to your growing wealth? A simple raise is fine, but you're talking scale of business revenues and profits, not cost of living. If you're running a business and are successful, I'd like to know your Staff Accountant and Executive Administrator are making much higher than industry norms then.
And yes it does have everything to do with all of that because it's all intertwined. These guys are having their debts paid by the university whereas normal students aren't. They are getting paid. And what if these players don't end up with a degree? They were essentially paid just to play football and have the right to earn millions. Room and board student loans for normal kids, players don't have to pay, so they are getting paid. Food that normal kids have to pay, players don't so they are getting paid. Stipends they receive each month that normal students don't get is them getting paid. Families being given free tickets and getting travel money, where normal kid's parents spend through the roof traveling and finding hotels. That's getting freaking paid and is 100% directly relatable here. These universities taking millions and outfitting their players whom are getting free clothes, whereas normal fans have to pay, they are getting paid.
You're right, things are changing due to greed. I never said it wasn't changing or that it wouldn't be a certain way. I'm just saying it's wrong, it's not amateur athletics, and they are in fact already getting paid. Without these universities taking millions, these same ball players wouldn't be succeeding at current rates nor have the ability to grow as athletes. Socioeconomics? We want to discuss and how this will affect certain races if these millions weren't plugged in? The lack of reach coaches would have, the decreased medical and strength advances. Heck, just look at the weight rooms at Grambling University to see what lack of funding does. Not to mention the amount of jobs those same millions bring to a program. People are making money, no doubt, but it's the players that are getting to enjoy it. Most schools lose money, so even with all of the money being made, it's funneled back into the program. So do we take that donation the Athletics Department gives to the educational side and give it to the players and take even more away from the students helping build everywhere else off the field? Do we ask donors for more money? Or do we attempt to keep things as they are where these guys get first class amenities, training, and education, and everybody wins?
