[ExI] letter

[William Flynn Wallace]

Spike pointed out that it’s supply and demand.  dan

The problem here is that they, college football, are running a monopoly.
Presumably they are getting the same waiver on that that major league
baseball has been getting for many years.  I'll have to do some research.
I think the NBA had some rule that a person could not join it until his age
group finished college, and that rule went down to a lawsuit and now high
school grads can get in the NBA.  I think the NFL doesn't want you unless
you have been to their minor leagues - the colleges.

Don't any of you have a problem with men putting hundreds of millions of
dollars in some else's pocket and getting little in return? This is not an
economic situation to me - it's humanist - it's fair play.  Grossly unfair.

bill w

On Fri, Dec 15, 2017 at 12:58 PM, Dan TheBookMan <danust2012 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> On Dec 15, 2017, at 10:00 AM, William Flynn Wallace <foozler83 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> spike wrote - 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.
>
> ---------
>
> But not what they are worth.  bill w
>
>
> Spike pointed out that it’s supply and demand. I think the same is
> generally true across the entertainment industry: lots of people _want_ to
> do it, so the supply is quite high (compared with other activities). (I
> stress “want” because that’s unlike slavery. Slaves didn’t want to work on
> plantations in Jamaica and the South. In fact, they had to be guarded from
> running away.)
>
> A bigger problem might be that too many people believe that they can be
> part of that tiny percentage that are able to make a paying career out of
> this. (And I’m sure many do it for love of the activity. But I’ve seen so
> many who seem to really think they have a chance here.)
>
> Regards,
>
> Dan
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>
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