OT: The origins of the term "student athlete"
How the NCAA Has Used the Term “Student-Athlete” to Avoid Paying Workers Comp Liabilities
So does paying players put workmans comp back on the table?
September 14th, 2011 at 2:01 PM ^
I clicked on this thread with the express intent of posting this video. I'm glad it was here already.
September 14th, 2011 at 2:29 PM ^
I ain't arg-un.
September 14th, 2011 at 2:48 PM ^
That's basically the argument of the larger article by Taylor Branch (the author of the definitive 3 volume bio of MLK, Jr.) that this is taken from...
"Scholarship athletes are already paid," declared the Knight commission members, "in the most meaningful way possible: with a free education." This evasion by prominent educators severed my last reluctant, emotional tie with imposed amateurism. I found it worse than self-serving. It echoes masters who once claimed that heavenly salvation would outweigh earthly injustice to slaves. In the era when our college sports first arose, colonial powers were turning the whole world upside down to define their own interests as all-inclusive and benevolent. Just so, the NCAA calls it heinous exploitation to pay college athletes a fair portion of what they earn.
Not only that, but he's backed up by the guy who basically founded the NCAA in 1951, who said of college athletics:
"This is the plantation mentality resurrected and blessed by today's campus executives."
Looong article here...
http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2011/10/the-shame-of-colleg…
September 14th, 2011 at 3:27 PM ^
I'm almost halfway through that article and I highly reccommend it.
September 14th, 2011 at 12:14 PM ^
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"It could have been much worse, considering the NCAA charged the school with a lack of institutional control. Still, the violations that occurred in the football program were all secondary in nature. They involved incoming players sleeping on couches or the floors of guys already on the team. Maybe even a meal at a fast-food joint"
September 14th, 2011 at 12:20 PM ^
They should penalize Boise for that ridiculous field before this is a big deal. On top of the ludicrous rules the NCAA has in place, Boise get scholarship reductions for Taco Bell, and OSU gets a vacated season for a coach knowingly breaking how many bylaws? Three, four, five?
September 14th, 2011 at 12:25 PM ^
I was going to make this its own thread but I didnt know how... Im not computer savvy..
However I believe with this Ohio should get hit pretty hard ..Like you said McDonalds and sleeping on a players couch or floor doesnt equal thousands of dollars but who am I to say what those cunts are thinking
September 14th, 2011 at 12:27 PM ^
- Go to the left side of your screen, click "create content"
- Forum topic
- Paste link
- ADD SOMETHING OTHER THAN THE LINK
- Title it
- Tag it "Boise" or whatever else it might relate to.
- Click save.
- ?
- Profit.
September 14th, 2011 at 12:32 PM ^
If you feel its thread worthy then be my guest and post it
September 14th, 2011 at 12:27 PM ^
Though this is quite a bit more off-topic, I love your use of the word "cunt." Tis my favorite word, so thank you sir for adequately describing the NCAA with the perfect word. Damn cunts.
September 14th, 2011 at 12:37 PM ^
Not sure if you read the news, but the coach that broke the rules lost his job.
September 14th, 2011 at 12:29 PM ^
Absolutely pathetic. I cant imagine that happens to folks like Eric LeGrand