Poll: 58 Percent of College Coaches Believe Players Should be Paid

Huey, i think its relevant (some of it is far fetched…for dramatic effects). If my company was making billions, but now the bottom line is my company making millions (as opposed to billions), i am going to do whatever it takes to get back in the billions. Whether that means raising ticket prices, team merchandise etc etc.

Thanks, he’s good. They didn’t need to stitch him up. Now i just have to keed his hands out of his mouth.

@allenp My argument is poor? Maybe that’s because it’s not really an argument at all. Maybe you should learn how to actually read something instead of assuming that you already know everything. I was simply stating a fact. If you’re in college and you need money, go out and find yourself a damn job. If you’re not averse to hard work or getting your hands dirty, you’ll be just fine.
Some of you guys are arguing that college athletes deserve to be paid because they’re bringing in millions of dollars to their respective universities. ‘OMG! It’s so unfair! These kids are being treated like slaves!’ Okay, let’s say you pay these student athletes a fair ‘wage’ for their services. Who’s gonna pick up the tab for that? Will it be passed along to other students (non-athletes) and their parents in the form of higher tuition? You bet it will. Life, believe it or not, is routinely unfair (and not just for athletes). So, you can cry all you want for these poor, pitiful kids who play ball, get treated like rock stars and rarely put any effort into studying something useful while they’re in college. I have no sympathy for them because I live in the real world where I work 60+ hours a week, saving lives for a living. I support my wife and kids, pay the bills, etc. That’s just what I do. What I DON’T do is play a child’s game and expect to be paid for it. But, I’m sure that’s just another “poor argument” from the uneducated working class, right? So, I’ll keep on living here in the real world and you can continue to reside comfortably in your own little fantasyland where everyone’s an entitled candyass. Fair enough?

hillbilly
you’re right, life isn’t fair and it sounds like you’re super bitter about it.
though what you do is commendable, why are you entitled to belittle a professional athlete for doing what HE does for a living? thats just what they do.

Pposse
You sound like you’re arguing “Keep screwing the players because it’s easier.” I mean, when did that become the measure of how we conduct business?
Hillbilly
Your argument was that players should go out and find a job. The argument was poor because the NCAA and their schools regulate what type of job they can find, and strictly prohibit them from being paid to use their most profitable skill. That would be playing sports.
You said you were in med school and became an EMT. Was that by chance, or was your decision to become an EMT tied to the fact that you were in med school? Did you decide to use the skillset you already had, your basic knowledge of several different sciences and burgeoning knowledge of medicine to get employed? Your example would have been relevant if the med school you attended said that no one was allowed to work as an EMT or nurse while in med school because that would corrupt their understanding of how to be a med student.
That’s what the NCAA tells student athletes.

Hillybilly
You seem angry.
If the government instituted rules governing where doctors had to live, work and how much they could or could not get paid for their services, you would be understandably upset. This is America, and we’re not supposed to have laws that limit your ability to maximize the skills you’ve worked hard to acquire particularly when people place a high value on those skills.
I don’t think running an investment bank is a skill that benefits most people in America. However, someone clearly values investments banks enough to pay their officers huge sums of money to do those jobs. I don’t think being the CEO of Apple is worth being paid $378 million annually in compensation, but the people at Apple do because that’s what the CEO made in 2011.
If you don’t think being a basketball player is worth a lot of money, than you SHOULD NOT pay them a lot of money. But instead of doing that, by refusing to watch them or make their enterprises profitable, you instead argue that they should be restricted from making money at the college level. Because they clearly have enough and their jobs, no matter how much money and interest they generate, are not that important.
That’s blatantly un-American. And I would wager you have a far different attitude when it involves just about everyone else who isn’t an athlete.
Fans kill me. People pay a crazy amount of attention to sports, they argue and bicker over sports, they spend huge sums of money on sports, but then they say “Oh, well they shouldn’t be worried about money because what they do isn’t important.”
Well your actions tell a totally different story.

I would imagine that many kids will be happy with not getting paid.
I would imagine that other kids will want to get paid.
And schools will decide just how important it is to them to attract top flight talent, or if they would rather stick with the model of not paying athletes.
The NCAA doesn’t want that to happen. Hell, schools don’t want that to happen. Schools protested against the possibility of allowing four year scholarships. You know why? It wasn’t because of cost, it was because they felt that if a player got injured, not being able to terminate his contract would make it harder to compete athletically. ESPN reported this and even noted that Boise State was one of the schools make that argument.
If a player is content with just an education, great for him. If a player would rather have that education AND a stipend, good for him as well.

Kids are shown college athletes playing on TV and are told by their TV how fortunate those athletes are. When those kids get to college and realize life is no easier as a college athlete than it was before, and learn about how much money is being made off of them, they are likely to feel shafted or confused. Or they are likely to take something under the table. Which has happened thousands upon thousands of times in the past. before the internet revolution and widespread awareness of these situations became available the issue of how much profit was being made off of student athletes was largely covered up or misrepresented by universities and those that make money off of them. The world has changed, it’s ok for how we view collegiate athletics to change as well.

It wouldn’t require any different monitoring than the current system. The current system says no money allowed and if we see money or evidence of money you’re in trouble.
The new system would say that only a certain amount of money is allowed and if we see evidence of too much money you’re in trouble.
Same system, same principles.

oh come on guys. playing college ball as a good player will get them their money after college. if they cant make it to the nba theyd still be able to earn more money than the average academic by playing ball abroad

Playing abroad does not yiel nearly as much money as people seem to think. Like 15 – 30 thousand a season for an average american player.

I dont think its smart to give college students possibly millions of dollars.What should happen is they get a financial consultant for those that already have a future set in the nba.

Still don’t understand why ppl would be opposed to students receiving outside endorsement money.
Someone please tell me how that wouldn’t work

hillbilly,
it’s great that you save lives for a living, but why complain about how much someone else makes, or what they do? in this case (college hoops), there is a HUGE market and demand for the student athlete’s services, therefore they generate all that money. you say it’s a child’s game, yet they probably work just as hard or even harder than you do to compete at such a high level.
also, i don’t know why you’re so angry/jealous. it was the coaches (you know, the ones that are ACTUALLY paid) that were polled, not the students (the ones in question). maybe you should read a little more carefully, cuz i don’t see where the students are complaining.

i jus did some more research, my bad. i saw that vets normally get 50k over here per year even if they dont play much. top players earn between 200 to 500 k per year. but even those who earn 50k or less have a good living as the teams gift them cars n provide them flats n food so they could really save / invest some of their money opposed to an average academic who works for a company n has to pay for everything on his own. i also thought most european or asian countries pay more money because basketball is unfortunatelly not popular in germany and many countries got stronger leagues than we do. i hear you on what you stated, i really didnt expect this situation to be that difficult.

This is the equivalent of saying “sun should rise in the west.” It’s never going to happen, at least not in our lifetime. The NCAA knows that this very subject is a “pandora’s box,” once you open it, you can never close it. Secondly, decades ago, (i) athletes used to get paid to play for colleges and (ii) they played for multiple schools. Moreover, the NCAA went through several machinations to keep them from being paid and keep them from switching teams.

Lol, not saying you shouldn’t pursue it, my boys had or are having a lot of fun, they just don’t get paid what I expected

+ though

Have a good one

the death penalty in college athletics is for paying players, just as it was for run away slaves LMAO. the only sports dominated by black atheltes are the only ones generating money and somehow there is an issue in proper compensation for their fair market value. smh these boys NEED to be paid. this would advance the black community in a number of ways. PAY THEM end of discussion. they generate absolutely too much money for white owned and operated universities and cities for them not to see any of the profits. And mind u some of them still have to come out of pocket for their scholarships due to the short comings of their scholarship the NCAAP which is a weak and small players union has a pamphlet whichs spells all of this out. College Basketball and College Football is DOMINATED by black athletes, pay them dammit!!!!!!

Why on earth should they be paid? They’re not soldiers, they’re playing basketball for christ sake. They get a free college education that should be more than enough. The world has gone crazy.

if compensation happens there is no more Butler or George Mason or gonzaga.
although john calipari would not have to be bending over all the time…(Hey Anthony you dropped your wallet why don’t you come to kentucky)

NCAA shouldn’t pay them, nor should the school, itself. Athletes should be allowed to earn money (and gifts), be it through an endorsement or whatever.

College athletes DO get paid…it’s called a scholarship and can be worth $200,000!! Lets not forget that the top college athletes can also leave early & make millions. Oh wait, only men & only certain sports. This idea of paying college athletes is ABSURD and I say that having been one & coaching them. It’s the problem with our culture today. 5 yr olds with iPhones, 10 year olds getting allowances and paid for grades. It’s absurd.