Reply to Pay College Athletes?

Forum Index » Sports General Discussion

Reply to "Pay College Athletes?"

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Direct pay to athletes will be the end of college sports as we know (and love) it, including the non-revenue sports.  Colleges will just decide they don’t want the hassle or expense or paying players.   When that happens, competitive sports will likely become “professionalized” around pro teams much like the English soccer model but for sports that can afford it (football, basketball, soccer (already happening)).  Without the incentive for a college scholarship, many travel or club teams will really struggle to survive and many will fold.  Youth sports will still exist in some form (maybe better) since there won’t be the travel club player imbalance.  The most negative impact (besides the loss of college sports generally) might be the end of United States’ Olympic dominance in the non-revenue Olympic sports—track, swimming, volleyball, etc.  Without the lure of a college scholarship, participation in those sports will drop drastically thereby impacting the overall talent pool.  [/quote]

Meh.  Lots of people in other countries play sports even though they aren't connected to schools (high school or college).  And there's no way colleges won't pay athletes in revenue-generating sports, so long as they are still making millions.  It's not like the NFL folded because players had to be paid.  [/quote].

That’s true but womens participation is way higher in the US bc of the college scholarship model. [/quote]

Title IX is why women's participation is high here. If schools want to pay football players, womens soccer is getting paid too. [/quote]

Options

	Disable HTML in this message
	Disable BB Code in this message
	Disable smilies in this message

Review message

Search Recent Topics Hottest Topics