Proposed NCAA Legislation & You Part 2: $2,000 Stipend
by bull_trojan on Jan 27, 2012 2:18 AM EST
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Like many fans, I was once against paying student athletes. After some study on the topic, I am still against paying athletes, because athletic departments could not afford the payments. I am in favor of allowing athletes to use their athlete status for money: advertisements, a piece of jersey sales or a check for allowing their name and likeness in video games...easy money things that cause little or no interference with the student lifestyle...
This fall as Conference Commissioners trampled tradition in pursuit of TV money, 300 players signed a petition asking for a share of that television revenue.
The NCAA responded by proposing a $2,000 stipend increase.
Status: NCAA will meet in April to discuss changes and implementation.
Outlook: Mid-Majors cannot afford the stipend increase.
Major programs will talk about how this will hurt smaller budget programs, or about how it is unfair to University Faculty and Staff who have not had raises in years. This is all code for: "We are already dominating our competition, in fact athletes will even wait a full year just to come play for us, why should we pay the students more money?"
However, in the wake of Bush, Newton, Yachtgate, and Tatgate, the NCAA needs to have the perception that they are addressing the issue of of student athlete compensation. This will get pushed through by the NCAA. Who cares about the mid-majors anyway…
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Sorry but 40K compensation is enough
Which is what most of these kids get in tuition, room and board..
MAYBE you let the Universities put some of the monies you’re talking about in trust for the students to either be used are scholarship for a graduate degree or put back into the U if the kids declines graduate school.
I agree that they do get a great deal,
But one of my major issues is the sticker price does not always show the net gain for the student.
For example:
Student A: Quarterback son of a millionaire: This student would most likely be eligible for no aid. He gets a full scholarship of 40k. Net gain = 40k.
Student B: Middle Linebacker, 3.75 gpa, eligible for a 25k academic scholarship from the university, but you cannot combine university aid with athletic aid. He gets a full athletic scholarship of 40k. Net gain = 15k
Student C: Defensive Tackle, due to parent finances is eligible for 35k in need based aid, 5k in federal aid, and 30k in institutional grants. The DT can combine federal aid with athletic aid, he will receive a full scholarship of 40k and the 5k of federal aid, but will not get the 30k in institutional grants. Net gain = 15k
While student A is getting 40k he would not have had otherwise, students B and C are really only getting 15k for the 20-50 hours of work they put in weekly. This would be pretty low in dollars per hour, even before considering these students, if employees would be due overtime pay and holiday pay on many occasions throughout the fall.
Out of that gain you still have to subtract the opportunity cost of lost wages (as the amount they can work is limited) the cost of travel for family members to away games, the increased costs to maintain training regiments and diets.
Last Bull Out
by bull_trojan on Jan 27, 2012 2:12 PM EST up reply actions 1 recs
Student A does not need a 2k stipend in the first place ;)
If there is not enough net gain for player than don’t play!
Lost Wages:
Lift the rule on working hours. Look at the trouble some of these players manage to get into, do you really think they have a whole lot less time on their hands than say, a kid on an academic scholarship?
Parent Travel:
BT I was in the UB Symphony band, should the school have reimbursed my parents for trips to Amherst to watch concerts
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Sorry I remember working two or three jobs to pay a tuition that these players don’t have to pay (weather or not player A needs the scholarship Im sure his millionaire dad is happy to save 40K a year). I doubt my calendar was any more open than these players.
A kid making 10$ an hour would need to work 4,000 hours a year (76 hours per week) just to get what the players are getting.
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