Harbaugh is looking into compensating players after they graduate
Just win
Just tune out until September when they can.
And reliving how that season unfolded, Harbaugh should be paying us!
I like that Harbaugh has clearly been thinking about this (or delegated someone to think about this and report back to him) and he understands that it's not as simple as pay the players (the tax implications.) I also would like to think I would feel the same about this if any other coach had discussed this issue in this manner.
It certainly has been intersting watching his thinking on this issue evolve over time.
It is nice to see someone in a position of power like him putting his neck out for the players. Of course, this type of talk likely gives him an advantage with recruits and their families seeing that he is focused on their well-being. He is a savvy person. He makes these comments because he believes them but also because he knows that it provides good optics for recruiting.
Maybe I missed the point, but the biggest takeway for me was that we might get another season of Michigan All or Nothing! What do we need to do to make this happen?
I mean, they just need to formally agree to it (if they haven't already).
Baumgardner says Amazon was in Paris.
Amazon series and the concurrent arrival of bad football was probably just a big coincidence but I would much rather they not test it again. That is just me.
I get what you're saying, but I would actually think that if the documentary crew being around was going to effect them it would've been at the start of the season, and we were winning games then.
were winning games but they were not playing well. They did not play particularly good all season.
*The offense was not playing well. I'd like to think the staff shakeups will help with that.
who? For the players to get paid? I'm just not sure what you mean.
Worth it, for the audience?
I graduated from Michigan in 4 years too. I even paid for the privilege. I can haz $100,000 in deferred compensation for no additional work too? I guarantee I put in as many, if not more, hours of work as the football team did. Only difference in my case is that the University didn't make any money on my efforts outside of collecting my tuition payments.
Maybe the approach should be some form of profit sharing.
Yeah they could take a chunk of the profits, and share them with the players in the form of a check.
I'm not denying you worked hard and did a lot of work but the athletes do that too. And they work 40+ hours/wk on top of it playing sports to make money for the university. That is extra work.
Bls.gov has median weekly earnings for all college graduates at $1193. A moment with your calculator will show you that this is more than 1.6 million over a 30 year period. And that's the median, obviously the average is higher (income is skewed right).
So hopefully the average 30 year earnings of a Michigan grad is well above 1.6 million.
But that's nitpicking. The point is, the rest of the student body is already allowed to earn money from their talents. No one would blink twice if Amazon wanted to pay any other group of students to make a tv show about them. But if an athlete wants the same treatment, he or she is told to just be grateful for the chance at a Michigan degree. I think think this would really piss me off if I were an athlete.
Good for Harbaugh.
As I've said before, it's past time for Michigan to stand up and be the leaders and the best. Just start paying the players on the books. Funded by donation. Straight up Fuck You to the NCAA. When they come after us, start our own league. It will be rough for a couple of years. It would be us and Hillsdale and a few others. But what would the public response be? "Shame on Michigan, how dare they pay the players who make millions for the white men in suits!" Within a few years, we'd have a great league and a permanent place on the right side of history.
No need to get personal as I am just stating my opinion on a certain subject.
Don't know if the intention is post-graduating, but if they could somehow pitch having a post graduate compensation policy, that could give recruiting a boost.
I think an easy(relatively) solution would be to get a minor league similar to hockey and baseball. Let players go out and make some bucks in the minors if they want, then at least they have the option. It'll take talent away from college ball but it'll still be just as fun to watch and it won't have the issue of morality surrounding it.
but whatever