Watch: Tim Tebow Gives Impassioned Take
On Why College Players Shouldn’t Get
Paid, Gets Slammed For ‘Privilege’
Daily Wire,
by
Amanda Prestigiacomo
Original Article
Posted By: Imright,
9/14/2019 6:00:49 AM
On Friday, former University of Florida and NFL quarterback Time Tebow argued that college student-athletes should not profit from advertisements of their likeness and jersey sales in order to preserve the team-over-individual atmosphere and to avoid wealthier colleges having unfair advantages in racking up talent.Following the ESPN segment, Tebow was quickly slammed for his "privilege" by professional players and sports commentators."I feel like I have a little bit of credibility and knowledge about this because when I was at the University of Florida, my jersey
Reply 1 - Posted by:
pixelero 9/14/2019 8:03:09 AM (No. 179456)
There’s not even a gray area, here.
You go to the university to attain knowledge; to prepare yourself academically for a (non-sports) profession; to get a classical education, or an education in business or the learned arts: medicine, law, architecture.
If you don’t want any of that stuff, if you want to be a jock, then go directly to a professional sports team. It’s that simple.
Because it’s the new paradigm, everybody may THINK that the university is just a place to go to play sports, but historically it’s not so.
It’s pretty obvious to me that universities across the board are utterly corrupt. Politically-motivated (Oberlin), and motivated by money (NCAA).
Academic rigor and intellectual attainment not so much.
https://www.uky.edu/~eushe2/Pajares/jaCollegeBred.html
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
VAPMAN 9/14/2019 8:41:04 AM (No. 179507)
Paying college football players would turn them into staff (or faculty if you made them professors). That would end any age or years of eligibility restrictions. You would essentially have created a new football league that would compete with the NFL for players and fans. If that is what colleges want then go for it. On the other hand, if you would require all college football players to meet the same academic entrance requirements as all other students and to maintain a reasonable full load of classes each year pursuant to a degree, you would re establish college football as an amateur sport and stop this nonsense of paying them.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
Wilko 9/14/2019 8:50:48 AM (No. 179524)
In the first place Tim's jersey belonged to the university....and players with scholarships are given room and board for 4 years, or in some cases given rent to live off-campus and a stipend for food. They should come away with an expensive 4 year degree from an institution of higher learning...They have nothing to gripe about.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
Cindiana 9/14/2019 8:55:13 AM (No. 179528)
What percentage of college players become pros with real careers? It's got to be small. Paying individual players can only devolve into yet another blankstorm. Let college be college, and sports a fun and exciting part of the expefience. Must everything good be ruined?
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
Krause 9/14/2019 9:38:24 AM (No. 179582)
Football players get top-shelf coaching and trainers, and the use of state-of-the-art facilities (which can prepare them for the next level), none of which they could afford on their own, and a free education (which many of them don't take advantage of). Add the cost of all that up, and it's a heck of a benefit.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
iraengneer 9/14/2019 11:14:53 AM (No. 179690)
Well ..... it gets more complicated than that.
I can still recall a conversation more than 30 years ago with an HR manager in a division of ITT, who opined, loudly, that if a college didn't have a football team, it wasn't a "real" college at all. And he was serious! This was just the tip of the floating "stool" that most HR departments were then and now. Point being that, more than we like to say or think, it's those operations like FB and basketball (soccer and gymnastics, etc. not so much) that actually make grads of those operations, even those who had zero to do with those teams, employable! Think I'm joking? I'm not, truly. Having lived and worked across much of the country, having a degree from Ohio State, Alabama, etc. is more "credentialed" than from Thiel, Otterbein, or, for that matter, Southern New Hampshire. Based on name recognition and the athletic departments. So, in truth, that team creates "value" for the institution. Why shouldn't the players get a cut? Have you seen the number of football coaches whose salaries run well into the million$$ per year? More valuable than a team jersey and a textbook.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
Smart11344 9/14/2019 1:59:16 PM (No. 179849)
College players are amateurs, many on full paid scholarships and God knows how many other perks they receive, including cheap women.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
mizzmac 9/14/2019 7:45:14 PM (No. 180072)
Good for you, Tebow.
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Okay then, if college players don't get paid, then the coaches should not get over the top salaries.
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