@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.
Your choices:
A) Full ride scholarship to Georgia Tech, worth $35K a year! But, I refuse to pay you.
B) No scholarship! Pay your own damn tuition! But I will pay you $850K a year to play football for me!
There is no student both smart enough to get into Georgia Tech, but simultaneously not smart enough to take deal B) over deal A).
@mekkaokereke @AlliFlowers @mdm additionally, if the defense is to claim they are interns, that's fine.
Every single college would be shut down due to the massive labor violations that are college sports (lack of breaks, lack of legal compensation, hours worked, OSHA, etc)
@bedirthan Maybe that’s why they don’t do it that way. @mekkaokereke @mdm
