Look at who generates the revenue and who collects it. In the Power conferences, Black athletes make up the majority of football and men's basketball rosters, the two sports that fund entire athletic departments. The head coaches, athletic directors, and conference commissioners collecting seven-figure salaries are overwhelmingly white. That's not a pattern anyone should be comfortable with. The usual defense is the scholarship, as if a degree of questionable market value settles a multimillion-dollar debt. Meanwhile the graduation data tells its own story: revenue-sport athletes, particularly Black men, graduate at lower rates than their classmates, because a 50-hour athletic week doesn't leave much room for organic chemistry. Employee status wouldn't fix all of that, but it would at least stop pretending the exchange is fair. Pay the labor force that the whole enterprise runs on. NCAA graduation and academic data
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The Kavanaugh quote goes hard but the practical side is a nightmare. 50 states, Title IX, taxes... I think both sides are right, which is annoying.
they already get free tuition, housing, food, tutors, trainers, gear. thats like 100k a year tax free. what more do people want
The coaches making $10M a year while the players get 'exposure' was always going to end this way. Pay the people who actually put butts in seats.
Does employee status mean they can get fired mid-season for dropping passes? Because that's where this logic goes and I'm not sure fans have thought that part through lol
my cousin played D1 ball and his "free education" came with 5am lifts, no social life, and a degree he picked because practice allowed it. call it what it is, a job