@mdm @mekkaokereke oh, colleges should absolutely be paying their athletes.
@bedirthan Is that in addition to paying their tuition? @mdm @mekkaokereke
No. Athletic scholarships should be ended, and athletes should be paid fair market value instead.
Sports leagues are supposed to pay ~50% of revenues to players. That's the standard amount for NBA, NFL, MLB, NHL, European soccer leagues, etc.
If you sum up every NCAA scholarship, it comes to closer to 2% of revenue.🤡
Where's that missing 48%?
We need to stop acting like sports scholarships are a favor to athletes. They're not.
@mekkaokereke Either they’re students, or they’re professional athletes. Basically college athletes are getting a paid internship, which is unavailable to any other student, and not even for every athlete. @bedirthan @mdm
@mekkaokereke Except they’re trying to do both full time. @bedirthan @mdm
You know Black students, so without even asking, I know that you know full time students that work full time jobs.
@mekkaokereke Fewer and fewer. @bedirthan @mdm
@AlliFlowers @mekkaokereke @bedirthan @mdm
That would be a reasonable argument if the education they were getting were in any way equal to what the school puts towards athletics.
The school is using your ability to throw a ball to bankroll themselves (see the average salary of an NCAA football coach) and not the school.
If the football coach makes more than the art teacher, the athlete should be paid.
@deirdrebeth Our Maybe the Art teacher should get a raise. @mekkaokereke @bedirthan @mdm
@AlliFlowers @mekkaokereke @bedirthan @mdm
Sure! If an NCAA program said "We're not comfortable with our athletes being paid as they're here to learn, so we're going to take all overages, and plow them back into school programs in the way of a non-profit." No paid advertising, no new arenas until the rest of the school gets their upgrades. No coaching salaries higher than average for that institution. I'd would applaud them for their efforts.
@deirdrebeth I like that. I would definitely get behind any program that did that. @mekkaokereke @bedirthan @mdm
@AlliFlowers @bedirthan @mdm
That either/or is a false dichotomy.
They're students, and they're professional athletes.
Just like some people are students and employees of the university working in the computer lab or library. Students that work in the computer lab may have access to facilities that general students don't.
Other students even have jobs outside the university. They can be professional athletes outside the school. Eg, NBA players coming back to get a degree while still playing