<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"><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">dan wrote - Not everyone take drama classes in college is going to earn a living in drama, for instance.</span></div><div><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)"><br></span></div><div><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">Aw, c'mon - how much money does the drama dept. earn for the college?  Geez.  bill w</span></div><span class="gmail-im" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:19.2px"></span></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Dec 15, 2017 at 10:08 AM, Dan TheBookMan <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:danust2012@gmail.com" target="_blank">danust2012@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="auto"><span class="">On Dec 15, 2017, at 7:40 AM, Dave Sill <<a href="mailto:sparge@gmail.com" target="_blank">sparge@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<blockquote type="cite"><div><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">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.  </div></div></blockquote></div></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div></span><div><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">I think the same ratio also applies to other parts of the entertainment industry. After all, sports are entertainment. Not everyone take drama classes in college is going to earn a living in drama, for instance.</span></div><span class=""><br><blockquote type="cite"><div><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><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">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><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></div></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div></span><div>By the way, American football might be voluntary for the players, but it’s not voluntary for the taxpayers at the high school, college, and pro levels:</div><div><br></div><div><a href="https://www.reason.com/blog/2017/09/07/stop-subsidizing-football/" target="_blank">https://www.reason.com/blog/<wbr>2017/09/07/stop-subsidizing-<wbr>football/</a></div><div><br></div><div>I think even better than pay sharing deals would be dismantling all these subsidies. By the way, recall this story:</div><div><br></div><div><a href="http://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-stadium-arms-race-snap-story.html" target="_blank">http://www.latimes.com/nation/<wbr>la-na-stadium-arms-race-snap-<wbr>story.html</a></div><div><br></div><div><div><div style="line-height:normal"><div style="line-height:normal"><span style="line-height:20px;background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">Regards,</span></div><div style="line-height:normal"><span style="line-height:20px;background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)"><br></span></div><div><div style="line-height:normal"><span style="line-height:20px;background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">Dan</span></div><div style="line-height:normal"><span style="line-height:20px;background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">   Sample my latest Kindle book "Sand Trap":</span></div><div style="line-height:normal"><font color="#000000" style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)"><a href="http://mybook.to/SandTrap" style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)" target="_blank">http://mybook.to/SandTrap</a></font></div></div><div style="line-height:normal"><br></div><div><br></div></div><div><div style="line-height:normal"></div></div></div></div></div><br>______________________________<wbr>_________________<br>
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