Mott the Hoople
Sweet Jane
Is a players union. First the notion of amateurism in college football is a joke. More like shamateurs. The cause of corruption in college football and the main source of it's hypocrisy is College Football generates billions in revenue each year. It's the second biggest spectator sport in the nation. We currently have a system where kids get tuition, room and board and that's pretty much it. If they get paid, they are considered cheaters and corrupt. How fucking hypocritical can you get. Coaches and athletic administrators and NCAA goons make 6 and 7 figure incomes.....and these kids get demonized for trading what little they do have for some tats and weed? Give me a fucking break.
The NCAA and Colleges are exploiting these kids to the tune of billions annually and then publicly villifying them when the Universities prove themselves to be corrupt. Well it's fucking obvious that the Universities and the NCAA is not looking after the best interest of these kids. They are a money making machine hypocritically hiding behind a pretense of academia.
A union can negotiate an appropriate wage scale and work limits for student athlete and there's nothing wrong with paying them. I was paid a stipend when I was a grad student and many grad students get a tuition waver too. Most college students work part time jobs to help make ends meet but those morons in the NCAA prohibit student athletes from working because it lends to the corruption they fucking created in the first place.
There are academic reasons for the need for a student athletes union too. That is, that most of these coaches and their multi-million dollar salaries don't give a rats ass about their athletes academic progress. They just care about keeping them eligible. Go into any recreation stuides class room at a State University. It's mostly athletes and they are pressured by their coaches to dummy down their classes so as to remain eligible. I've personally talked to two guys who played under Coach John Cooper and they do not hold him in high regard due to this. One was Robert Smith and the other was Bob Hoying. Smith was a pre-med major and Hoying was a business administration major. Both demanding majors and both were pressured by Coach Coppers staff to take less demanding classes so as to focus more time on football and be able to remain eligible. Both Players refused. Smith ended up quiting the team and Hoying was benched in favor of a less talented player who did.
The issue here is really sharing the wealth that the players do the lions share of the work in earning in a reasonable and equitable fashion so as to end this hypocritical and corrupt system we currently havee. A players union would be a step in the right direction.
The NCAA and Colleges are exploiting these kids to the tune of billions annually and then publicly villifying them when the Universities prove themselves to be corrupt. Well it's fucking obvious that the Universities and the NCAA is not looking after the best interest of these kids. They are a money making machine hypocritically hiding behind a pretense of academia.
A union can negotiate an appropriate wage scale and work limits for student athlete and there's nothing wrong with paying them. I was paid a stipend when I was a grad student and many grad students get a tuition waver too. Most college students work part time jobs to help make ends meet but those morons in the NCAA prohibit student athletes from working because it lends to the corruption they fucking created in the first place.
There are academic reasons for the need for a student athletes union too. That is, that most of these coaches and their multi-million dollar salaries don't give a rats ass about their athletes academic progress. They just care about keeping them eligible. Go into any recreation stuides class room at a State University. It's mostly athletes and they are pressured by their coaches to dummy down their classes so as to remain eligible. I've personally talked to two guys who played under Coach John Cooper and they do not hold him in high regard due to this. One was Robert Smith and the other was Bob Hoying. Smith was a pre-med major and Hoying was a business administration major. Both demanding majors and both were pressured by Coach Coppers staff to take less demanding classes so as to focus more time on football and be able to remain eligible. Both Players refused. Smith ended up quiting the team and Hoying was benched in favor of a less talented player who did.
The issue here is really sharing the wealth that the players do the lions share of the work in earning in a reasonable and equitable fashion so as to end this hypocritical and corrupt system we currently havee. A players union would be a step in the right direction.
