Column: California and New York are setting dangerous precedents with student-athlete pay

[Texas Stranger]

4 hours ago, KingDL1 said:

These laws, if they stand, will effectively destroy  college sports. There  will be no regulation of money. The costs, the agents, the ripoffs,  the law suites, the  guaranteed money,  the acting bad, 18 year olds with that kind of money overnight, parents mismanaging money, drugs, sex scandals it will go off the scale.

And then there's the IRS.

[golfingomez]

13 hours ago, KingDL1 said:

These laws, if they stand, will effectively destroy  college sports. There  will be no regulation of money. The costs, the agents, the ripoffs,  the law suites, the  guaranteed money,  the acting bad, 18 year olds with that kind of money overnight, parents mismanaging money, drugs, sex scandals it will go off the scale.

yeah... thank God the NCAA has control of all these issues right now!

[Cerebus]

Paying students to pick your program, when many other programs desire their talent is par for the course.  I am of course talking about STEM GRADUATE STUDENTS.

Yes, getting the top graduate students into your program is so competitive that unless you are willing to offer the extra financial support they will go somewhere else.    Of course, it makes no sense to do that in a multi-billion dollar industry when their coaches are being paid a million dollars... /s

PS: The California bill has nothing to do with universities paying students.   It says that universities can't punish a student if they get compensated for their name and license.  So an Olympic level swimmer could get compensated by Team USA and still swim for their school.  A baseball pitcher could make money off of having a funny social media account.  A football player could get a check from EA to make a college football game.

Yes, this might mean some boosters make up BS jobs to slip kids money, but this happens already at every level.  If you don't see that you are being willfully blind.

At least now they have to fill out a tax form for it. 

[untjim1995]

The NCAA is really caught in a tough spot. They have to cater to the top programs for $$$, so they turn a blind eye on them unless it’s just a huge issue. They know that if they decide to pull away, they are going to lose the top 50 programs that makes the money from TV networks and apparel.

Best thing that could ever happen is for this to occur. Let the the top NFL and NBA lite programs go their own way and decide how they want to run their programs. Hell, outside of the NCAA, they could just say you can play here until you graduate. It’ll be that transformative for the Texas and OU’s of the world. They could have drafts instead of recruiting, they could have salary caps, and create new divisions.