McFeely's Tip Sheet: NDSU working toward Alston payments for athletes

[TAILG8R]

Donor fatigue: Some college football fans wonder why they have to pay for players
Article from the Athletic:

https://archive.is/NKSI4

The short answer … “because others are willing to”


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[DCinOK]

The short answer … “because others are willing to”


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If this is what college football has become...that schools' fans are constantly being hit up to pay the players...shark has been jumped. I am the right-wing of the right wing...but college-sports-destroyers have decided that if you oppose the recent transfer-at-will-pay-to-play-NIL nonsense then you are a COMMUNIST/ANTI-CAPITALIST Hater of Freedom! So pathetic and absurd.

[HerdBot]

If this is what college football has become...that schools' fans are constantly being hit up to pay the players...shark has been jumped. I am the right-wing of the right wing...but college-sports-destroyers have decided that if you oppose the recent transfer-at-will-pay-to-play-NIL nonsense then you are a COMMUNIST/ANTI-CAPITALIST Hater of Freedom! So pathetic and absurd.

I mean a State owned tax funded University is technically a social program. So are public K-12

[NDSU92]

Free markets unless I say so!!!

[Hammerhead]

It's the same thing with the Jon Bon Jovi fan club and people complaining how much his events cost or how much they charge for front row tickets at concerts. They charge a lot because people are willing to pay a lot. Most concerts let you take home your front row chairs after the show and I like to joke that we have the world's most expensive folding chairs in our basement.

The short answer … “because others are willing to”


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[BigHorns]

If this is what college football has become...that schools' fans are constantly being hit up to pay the players...shark has been jumped. I am the right-wing of the right wing...but college-sports-destroyers have decided that if you oppose the recent transfer-at-will-pay-to-play-NIL nonsense then you are a COMMUNIST/ANTI-CAPITALIST Hater of Freedom! So pathetic and absurd.

We don’t have pure, unregulated capitalism in America for a reason, it always ends up in monopoly or a small oligopoly at best.

In this case, the P2 are becoming a powerful duopoly that will soon shut most other colleges out of the major media marketplace. They already reap the vast majority share of revenues.

The idea that fans need to constantly bid higher to buy/keep players is insane, and just means the largest mega fanbases will win every time. If your stadium doesn’t seat 100k don’t bother trying to win a CFP title. We might as well stay FCS forever. We can win more titles at this level, but still sucks to see all the best players siphoned off each year

[EC8CH]

We don’t have pure, unregulated capitalism in America for a reason, it always ends up in monopoly or a small oligopoly at best.

Sounds like something a commie pinko would say.

[NDSU92]

Two solutions to this could be 1) Take anti-competitive, monopolistic and anti-capitalist privileges away from over-subsidized public athletic departments, or 2) continue exploiting 18-24 year old athletes that we all claim to love and enjoy.

Funny how #1 is never even mentioned as an option

[CAS4127]

Two solutions to this could be 1) Take anti-competitive, monopolistic and anti-capitalist privileges away from over-subsidized public athletic departments, or 2) continue exploiting 18-24 year old athletes that we all claim to love and enjoy.

Funny how #1 is never even mentioned as an option

How about this: Use models/volunteers etc. in all advertising for college sports—no highlights except those that they volunteer by playing in public forum (their choice to do it), continue to pay scholarships and FCOA and let the student athletes fend for themselves re: NIL. Don’t just feed them.

[NDSU92]

How about this: Use models/volunteers etc. in all advertising for college sports—no highlights except those that they volunteer by playing in public forum (their choice to do it), continue to pay scholarships and FCOA and let the student athletes fend for themselves re: NIL. Don’t just feed them.

Why all the extra steps just to not have the schools pay the kids? NIL is what it is (de facto black market for buying players) because the schools will do anything to avoid paying the athletes. They want the fans to do it for them so they can have their publicly subsidized administrative salaries while us stooges pay the real bills. Have the athletic departments pay the players and NIL will revert back to what it’s supposed to be: players getting paid to help companies advertise and/or sign autographs, appear in video games, etc.

No one loses a minute of sleep over coaches’ or administrators’ salaries, the facilities arms race, etc., all which also take donor money endlessly and create an unfair advantage for large schools. But as soon as the athletes get paid a taxable dollar everyone loses their shit.

I’m genuinely curious why that is.