{"id":2759,"date":"2018-03-07T23:22:55","date_gmt":"2018-03-08T05:22:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/?p=2759"},"modified":"2018-03-07T23:22:55","modified_gmt":"2018-03-08T05:22:55","slug":"this-is-how-to-pay-college-athletes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/?p=2759","title":{"rendered":"This Is How To Pay College Athletes"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>It would be nice to end this column here. But, of course, not everyone agrees. Some people\u2014the most salient are the generously compensated college sports executives and the lawyers they pay to defend the status quo in antitrust court\u2014insist that athletes <a href=\"https:\/\/www.si.com\/more-sports\/2010\/08\/26\/pay-college\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">can\u2019t be paid because they\u2019re amateurs, and that they\u2019re amateurs because they can\u2019t be paid.<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>via <a href=\"https:\/\/deadspin.com\/this-is-how-to-pay-college-athletes-1823353456\">This Is How To Pay College Athletes<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>And then the article meanders into this.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>So what is the best plan for paying players? <em>No plan at all<\/em>. If Kentucky wants to offer basketball recruits $500,000 signing bonuses, fine. If <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2015\/09\/11\/sports\/ncaafootball\/notre-dame-president-stands-firm-amid-shifts-in-college-athletics.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Notre Dame <em>doesn\u2019t <\/em>want to offer football recruits a penny more than their athletic scholarships<\/a>, that\u2019s also fine.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>No, that&#8217;s not fine.\u00a0 A free for all could destroy the golden goose of college basketball.\u00a0 The players need a union and some kind of compensation which includes guaranteed scholarships and other things for playing in tournaments.<\/p>\n<p>Like pro sports, professional college basketball and football needs to be run like a cabal to survive.\u00a0 As long as the players, as a class, get a certain percentage of the loot let the player&#8217;s union figure out how to divvy it up.\u00a0 Right now they don&#8217;t even have a union.\u00a0 One step at at time!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It would be nice to end this column here. But, of course, not everyone agrees. Some people\u2014the most salient are the generously compensated college sports executives and the lawyers they pay to defend the status quo in antitrust court\u2014insist that &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/?p=2759\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[140,20],"class_list":["post-2759","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports","tag-college","tag-monopolistic-practices"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2759","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2759"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2759\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2760,"href":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2759\/revisions\/2760"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2759"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2759"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2759"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}