<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:19.2px">I'd be in favor of removing obstacles to paying athletes but I hardly think it's comparable to slavery.</div><span class="gmail-HOEnZb" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:19.2px"><font color="#888888"><div><br></div><div>-Dave</div><div><br></div><div>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.</div><div><br></div><div>bill w</div></font></span></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Dec 15, 2017 at 9:40 AM, Dave Sill <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:sparge@gmail.com" target="_blank">sparge@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><span class="">On Fri, Dec 15, 2017 at 10:22 AM, William Flynn Wallace <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:foozler83@gmail.com" target="_blank">foozler83@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000">1.6% of college football players make it to the pros. So what? So after perhaps making tens of millions of dollars for their schools winning conference titles, bowl games, the vast majority of the players graduate having gotten mostly nothing in return.</div><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000"><br></div><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000">It is time to pay the players. Where else do we see employees contribute a great deal to the organization's bottom line and get a pittance in return?</div><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000"><br></div><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000">The idea that they are amateurs is ludicrous. Even the Olympic organization got the right idea on that awhile back. How much has Michael Phelps put in the bank?</div><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000"><br></div><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000">It is not a question of having the money. It's a question of sharing it. The players and coaches earned it. The coaches certainly get their share and their schools too. The real money makers get next to nothing - tuition, books, a very few spending dollars.</div><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000"><br></div><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000">This blatant hypocrisy needs to stop. This is slave labor, isn't it? Where else can they market their skills? Nowhere.</div><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000"><br></div><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000">Outside of actual slavery, I can't think of another situation that is this unfair. Absolutely unAmerican.</div></div></blockquote><div><br></div></span><div>The better players get athletic scholarships. That's substantial. Athletics are voluntary: nobody is making anyone play football. Ask players why they play. I think most just enjoy playing the game and the experience of being a varsity athlete. I'd be in favor of removing obstacles to paying athletes but I hardly think it's comparable to slavery.</div><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><div><br></div><div>-Dave</div></font></span></div></div></div>
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