[ExI] letter

spike spike66 at att.net
Fri Dec 15 17:29:36 UTC 2017


 

 

> On Behalf Of Dave Sill
Subject: Re: [ExI] letter

 

On Fri, Dec 15, 2017 at 11:55 AM, William Flynn Wallace <foozler83 at gmail.com <mailto:foozler83 at gmail.com> > wrote:

Yes, they are volunteers, but the real slaves made big money for the plantation owners and received very little in return.  ESPN paid NCAA $470 millions of dollars and the players get a scholarship?  That IS comparable to actual slaves.

 

>…In the sense that they're poorly compensated, yes. But slavery is about a zillion times worse than voluntarily playing a game.  -Dave

 

 

 

As in everything else, it is all about supply and demand.  Colleges have a nearly inexhaustible supply of good high school level athletes with big dreams.  Currently they compete and do pay (in one way or another) the high-end talent in big positions, for the competition for that talent is intense.  Like pro-sports, the compensation they offer athletes varies widely.  Colleges really can’t do anything about that.  If they offer the same compensation package to all their players, they will end up with all linemen and no QB.

 

Good athletic talent costs money.  The more talent, the more it costs, and the more tickets the college makes.  It really is first-tier professional sports.  The players are already paid what they cost.

 

spike

 

 

 

 

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