Trust me this thread is going to be good!!!
Let me explain why college football players can not be given any money beyond the value of the cost of school/room/meals.
Bottom line :
Because it is amateur sports.
This is very serious and why Mississippi State had to be punished!
A player got a sweet heart deal on the car he bought with a $2000 discount.
http://sports.yahoo.com/news/mississ...48--ncaaf.html
Even buying a player something to eat at the wrong time can bring trouble from the NCAA.
This is necessary to keep college football
AMATEUR.
The reason college football is AMATEUR is because :
There is no money in college football!
It's like this folks; the college has to pay the coaches, the team doctor, stadium employees, security,practice field maintainers, Athletic director, non-profitable female sports budgets, equipment manager, weight coach, referees, game announcer, marching band director, cheerleader coach, team secretary, etc....
So there really is no money left to pay any players, not even to give the best ones who busted ass and won awards on their scholarship free grad school.
The colleges are going broke trying to give people a chance to play football.
That's why
There is no money in college football!
How do I know there is no money in college sports?
Well gee just look at these charts :
That's some truly fucking pathetic ticket sales and licensing, considering the expenses chart.
http://espn.go.com/ncaa/revenue
And to prove how impossible it would be to let college football players negotiate their worth,
look how the colleges are losing money as their endowments always go down.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...s_by_endowment
