I thought you started by saying the NCAA needs to stop the student athlete sham, and stop calling them amateurs. If they are not amateurs and are getting compensated for a service the current system is illegal as currently used. I'm curious what you would call them if they are getting compensated for a service then ?How is this statement true? A scholarship at duke is worth over $50k per year. A scholarship at LSU is worth $20k per year. Is duke in trouble for offering more to their student-athletes than LSU?
And why are we referring to student-athletes as "employees"? That's going to be the nonstarter for any discussion with me about this.
Again you sound like it would have been a 10‐0 vote instead of the unanimous 9-0 slam dunk if you were the 10th Justice of the Supreme Court.
This issue is not even about direct payments though, that may come down the road, if the NCAA is so blind to keep fighting with this losing justification. It is about limiting or having control of any earning possibilities or benefits of those you bring in to perform the task for your billion dollar industry.
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