Big Ten looking to pay their players

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Essentially that's what is being done:

On the surface, the Big Ten's announcement that its officials are discussing using money from its lucrative TV contract to pay athletes to help cover living expenses on top of their scholarships may come across as a goodwill gesture and a chance to reinvest in its student-athletes.
The idea, which is backed by NCAA president Mark Emmert, would supposedly bridge the gap between what scholarships pay and other expenses such as transportation and clothing. The difference has been estimated at between $2,000 and $5,000 per player.
But the reality is, it is a way for the Big Ten, which is composed of 11 members of the prestigious Association of American Universities, to draw a line of demarcation between the BCS/AAU members and the rest of the NCAA, saying, in effect, "We are just going to compete against ourselves, and those who cannot are going to be left behind."
It's not unlike the current Big East expansion situation, in which football members Pittsburgh and Rutgers have said to perspective applicant Villanova: "We don't want to diminish our program by playing in an 18,000-seat soccer arena."
Big Ten commissioner Jim Delany has stressed that the idea is only in the discussion stage but added that he's interested in talking to other conferences to see if they favor such a plan. He already knows many schools and conferences will not be able to afford the expense, which could run as high as $300,000 for football and men's basketball alone.
Ohio State athletic director Gene Smith has taken a pragmatic view, saying, like his president Gordon Gee, that the stakes are higher for schools such as his than they are for MAC or Sun Belt schools. The athletic budget for Ohio State is more than $100 million.
"The reality is, if there's a cost of attendance and if you can't afford it, don't do it," Smith said. "The teams you're trying to beat can't do it, either. Don't do it because Ohio State is doing it. That's one of the things schools at that level get trapped into thinking."
If this legislation gains momentum and all six BCS conferences get on board, it could be the first shot in an escalating arms race that eventually could create the impetus for those schools to secede from the NCAA and form their own organization with their own lucrative football and basketball championships.
At the very least, if the NCAA stays in place, it will give the BCS schools another huge advantage in recruiting and further diminish the possibility of a Butler or a VCU - who aren't part of the in crowd - crashing the Final Four party while keeping the biggest brand names playing on the biggest stage in March.


Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/sports/college/2011/05/22/2011-05-22_cost_of_success.html#ixzz1NB9jhZKP
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The B1G used to do this waaayyyyyyy back in the day. The difference between now and then is women's athletics. Do this for one sport and you have to do this for all sports. This would be far easier to absorb for an AQ conference than a non-AQ conference (MAC, WAC, Mountain West,etc.). So if the major conferences have this 'benefit' to offer, and Boise State can't, would a player go to Boise State or Washington State? The big question would be how this effects smaller AQ schools like Northwestern, Rutgers or Baylor?
 
Exactly. It would negate sports for minor teams. No longer would you see a TCU or the sort vying for a championship.
 
Weren't some teams like TCU at the heart of the collapse of the SouthWest Conference? I think some of those schools might do better if they can start paying players again.
 
I knew it was SMU, the point was you don't need a huge college to be able to afford to pay players. If you have some well off boosters, which private schools usually do, you can pay.
 
stalked_R/T said:
Exactly. It would negate sports for minor teams. No longer would you see a TCU or the sort vying for a championship.
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Don't bet on that. TCU will be moving to the Big East in 2012. With Utah moving to the PAC-12(?), it leaves only Boise State as the non-AQ champion. I think it would be pretty funny if TCU played Utah for the NC next year.
 
I'm just saying it would put other schools as a drastic disadvantage.
 
about fucking time, and then maybe ,just maybe, you can get rid of the scumbag agents who prey on those kids..
 
Nah, then the agents will just be the ones talking to the schools making sure the kids get top dollar. You'll just have agents trolling high schools now.
 
1st of all this is just a theory being put in front ogf the Big Ten Committee. It will NEVER be approved by the NCAA.

People always say that these kids deserve to be Paid BS and BTW they already are paid. Tuition/Clothes Shoes/Food/Books/Lodging. U take that information at any D-1 school and ur looking at anywhere between 40-125K a year. that does not include Travel/Lodging/Food/Entertainment on the road.

Okay so u do pay the kids, do we really want to have a Yankees of College Football? I sure as hell dont (even tho Michigan would probably out spend everyone). And as far as the "Agents not being able to Corrupt the Kids" comment What the Hell do u think they will get away with when the Money is even Harder to Catch onto it? It would turn into the SWC of the 80s threwout the Entire nation.

I played Football at a Local school and when we beat a Pretty Predominate other Local School and out Rival we got the Infamous 1oo dollar hand shake but that was the Extent.
 
Rodzilla said:
1st of all this is just a theory being put in front ogf the Big Ten Committee. It will NEVER be approved by the NCAA.

People always say that these kids deserve to be Paid BS and BTW they already are paid. Tuition/Clothes Shoes/Food/Books/Lodging. U take that information at any D-1 school and ur looking at anywhere between 40-125K a year. that does not include Travel/Lodging/Food/Entertainment on the road.

Okay so u do pay the kids, do we really want to have a Yankees of College Football? I sure as hell dont (even tho Michigan would probably out spend everyone). And as far as the "Agents not being able to Corrupt the Kids" comment What the Hell do u think they will get away with when the Money is even Harder to Catch onto it? It would turn into the SWC of the 80s threwout the Entire nation.

I played Football at a Local school and when we beat a Pretty Predominate other Local School and out Rival we got the Infamous 1oo dollar hand shake but that was the Extent.
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well you ban all agents and anyone getting caught the player and agent both get hit with huge fines and the agent is no longer able to represent any players, that how you fix that..And i dont buy kids already get paid line, those schools make BILLIONS off the product on the fields , every athlete gets said amount per week and you make it as even as possible , because lets be honest tennis wont bring the cash football does, this can happen but just like a much needed playoff system it wont...
 
mark468 said:
well you ban all agents and anyone getting caught the player and agent both get hit with huge fines and the agent is no longer able to represent any players, that how you fix that..And i dont buy kids already get paid line, those schools make BILLIONS off the product on the fields , every athlete gets said amount per week and you make it as even as possible , because lets be honest tennis wont bring the cash football does, this can happen but just like a much needed playoff system it wont...
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better run that past our "panel of experts"...........;)

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