"He's a hard worker, and he watched me and Tim (Hardaway Jr.) and Nik (Stauksas) put work in to become (first-round picks), and I'm just happy he's getting better," Burke said. "It's great for the program, too. It shows what type of program the University of Michigan is and the direction it continues to go in."
cumong man
"please don't get tackled from behind this t--dawwww"
so we've got that going for us
help i've been transported back in time to Jim Tressel's hiring help
oh my god the blinking goes up
See! It could be worse.
noon Wednesday if you're interested
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standard stuff
well, yeah
vague
here's one vote for "John Beilein's head in a Futurama jar"
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"...lose opportunities for their futures."
Lose opportunities compared to what? I don't understand what he could truly mean by that.
Are not allowed to enroll in demanding majors based on athletic time commitments.
Also, many players suffer injuries that drastically reshape their future health wise, sometimes paralysis.
Because of the time restraints placed on them, Id much rather see a system where they get vouchers or something like that for semesters of college for every year they're on a team. That way, if/when they crash out of the NFL or finish with college, they can devote themselves full time to an academic path of their own choosing.
Should high schools also be providing topical as well as long term care and compensation for those athletes that suffer injuries?
If high schools were making billions of dollars off HS football and basketball, then yes, they should provide the same. But they aren't, can't, and shouldn't have to. College on the other hand certainly has the means to do it at the top level but won't or can't do it because of their inability to alter their own outdated rules.
really isn't about compensation for the student athletes per se, it's about separating universties from too much money. Certainly you agree that a concussion suffered at 16 years of age is just as debilitating as one suffered at 20, yes? I imagine the same could be said for a broken neck.
It's about not exploiting people for obscene, unearned profits. What's so hard to understand about that?
And when a kid gets injured playing a HS sport, he may have legal recourse for compensation.
All of these "slippery slope" and extreme ends arguments distract from the core point being fought here - should athletes at schools be given protection and a say in how their service to the university teams is treated. It's not about wealth redistribution or assigning blame to specific institutions, and I suspect only the most passionate believers expect ongoing medical care to be part of any agreement between athletes and schools. But athletes in all sports, but especially in revenue-generating ones, create a positive gain for the university and the NCAA that in no way is offset by scholarships and bags of clothing given to them by reps for whatever apparel company the university signed a deal with. If they are hurt while playing for their team, the school and/or the NCAA should have a mechanism in place to help defray the costs of rehabilitation and ongoing treatment before while at school and beyond. And for all the doom and gloom about abuse and the negative impacts on other sports, it feels less based on hard numbers and calculations and more on fear of the unknown, which isn't a good reason not to at least give it a try.
But athletes in all sports, but especially in revenue-generating ones, create a positive gain for the university and the NCAA that in no way is offset by scholarships and bags of clothing given to them by reps for whatever apparel company the university signed a deal with.
Economically speaking, this isn't really true. Demand for these scholarships far outstrips supply, which suggests that schools could offer far less to the athletes and still fill the slots.
That's true, but players of a certain caliber are not fungible; there are only so many players a year who perform up to the "standards" that a school feels is worthy of a scholarship. With few exceptions, I'm guessing the number of Big-5 conference-caliber players produced each year is pretty inelastic. So while they could try offering different compensation levels and might be able to squeeze more out than they already are, I'm guessing you'd see even more stratification between the haves and have nots.
Can current players who weren't involved in the suit allowed to sue once they graduate now? Should have pretty good precedent for a quick settlement if they were in NCAA 13 or 14.
are the 40 or so walk-ons, a group of players with which no program can dispense.
Shhh, don't talk about them, they don't deserve any attention because they are obviously of means and don't mind paying out of pocket for the utter privilege of having their heads handed to them on a daily basis.
Are you talking about the walk-ons at UM? With rare exception, if they are in the game then they have a right to be a part of any lawsuit about use of their likeness in the game.
Or do you mean walk-ons in general? In that case, I'm sure any revamping of the NCAA's treatment of scholarship-athletes will include some language on their treatment and options. Probably won't be as great as scholarship athletes, but who knows.
I am certain the $13.2 million in legal fees have NOTHING to do with these waves of lawsuits either.
Even lawyers' babies gotta eat, man. Sure, it's only the best beluga caviar, but still...
for over a decade, was able to take in profits from a game in which the digital players were created--to the best of the current technology's capability--to like and play like those players, wore the same numbers, came from same hometowns, etc. etc. ad naseum to the real players for that same school...all while claiming the players are entirely fictional...that is a slap in the face to common sense and decency.
SCREW whoever ended the video games. Now I actually have to go out on Friday nights before games with actual people.
Title IX, discuss. You can spin all the hypotheticals you want about the NFL being required to support the National Art History League, and why the extra money should be going to the players of revenue sports. The flat fact is that Title IX exists, it applies to college athletics, and it's going to stay on the books for the foreseeable future. Reforming the NCAA is a noble goal. Making simplistic statements that ignore the rhinoceros in the living room is not helpful.
The DoE will issue guidance about how to deal with "the rhinoceros in the living room" soon enough. What reasonable worry do you actually have, what particular part of Title IX is it based on, and what evidence do you have that that will be interpreted in a way that justifies your worry? If you can't answer those questions, you don't get to derail the conversation.
Was it wrong to use players likeneses for profit? Yeah. But what did this lawsuit really accomplish?
A few players got a few hundred bucks.
We will never EVER see another NCAA football or basketball video game.
So was it really worth it?
Do you honestly believe that a multi-million dollar set of franchises are dead because of a lawsuit? Depending on how the NCAA case breaks, you could see EA rebegotiate with the NCAA very soon for new licensed games.
I don't thinik EA is going to touch NCAA games with a 10 foot pole after this. Not with so much liability at stake.
I guess it is possible that we will see something with totally generic teams that don't have any resemblance to the actual teams. But I doubt we are going to see something that strives to model the actual teams ever again. Maybe they could create compeltely fake rosters and leave it editable so that the internet community could make the real ones or something, but that is about the best I can imagine.
It's crazy the amount of stuff they get just by being in the Big Ten tournament or NCAA tournament or bowl games. Ipods, cell phones etc. As a current college student they get off way better than we do. They get to pick their classes before anyone else etc.
And for that they have to spend 40+ hours a week in addition to all their school work on their sport. Plus deal with the very real risk of long term injury.
