So, all pretext of being amateur sports has been ditched. This sucks.
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Already managed in all pro sports.
Will be interesting to see how the Big East and other schools w/o football spend on their programs. My understanding is they too can go up to $20.5M.
The spectrum for P4 schools appears to be $3-6M to basketball while BE schools may have $10M+ rosters with some booster commitments.
I think also , Eventuality players will be employees and ath depts will get taxed on profits.
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what if the talent agencies use a âhollywood type formatâ
They put an entire package together. Coach, coordinators, top players, a shoe deal.
Yes and yes.
Itâs testing your love of college football and UH football. Will fans like
us stick with it ? Iâm still all in, but Iâd be lying if I didnât say it bothers me
and tempers my passion for it.
Itâs great for the kids; they are getting a really good salary and access to an education if they choose with tutoring, room and board. I think football graduation rates will drop as kids will enjoy their new salary. Going to be rough road at first as
the fans and students react to it all.
I wonder what students that have to work part time, and take out giant students loans feel about having part of their tuition pay for these amateur athletes?
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this is where my thoughts went as well.
I was curious if universities can use some of these funds to attract higher academic students?
I donât know the answer but if the school is paying the athletes, then do some of the other benefits like room and board become taxable? Some parts are not, but I do not know about all or the differences.
Really only football and menâs basketball. The other sports are really just getting about the same as any stipend before. Most schools are only giving the other sports about 5-10% of that $20.5 million to divide.
Edit: Did some quick math, $2 million to all the other sports only works out to about $6,000 - $10,000 each. That is annually.
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