Re: If I ruled NCAA football..

Onyx_Hokie <onyx_hokie@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in
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[ 17 Aug 2006 05:38:11 -0700 ]
[ Jon Enslin | jenslin@xxxxxxxxxxx ]
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:> Student-athletes who are provided scholarships
:> don't suddenly get more value simply because there's no money
:> changing hands, and it's entirely disingenuous to say otherwise.
:
:You just don't seem to grasp what I am saying. I am saying that the
:value of the education they receive is greater than what the
:University gets out of them on the field. Therefore they are not
:being exploited.

This line of argument is thoroughly ridiculous. It's a one-for-one
exchange. The student-athlete gets the costs of attending the
university (or college) provided for them in exchange for playing for
the institution on the field. If they weren't scholarship athletes,
they could simply pay their way as other students do. Thus, the
"value" of the scholarship is precisely defined as the normal cost of
attending the institution. Assigning a greater value to the
scholarship based on some nebulous idea of increased future earnings
is obtuse, to say nothing of dishonest, and used solely in a failed
effort to discredit the idea that superstars are exploited by the
institutions.


One could also argue that college football players get a lot more,
namely football training and exposure that they can (and do) use to get
money when they turn pro. Using the Michael Vick example, he received
three years of top notch coaching and media exposure for being in a
successful program (VTech was good before and after Vick was there - as
good as he was, he was not a one man show). These allowed him to mature
into a qb that the pros were willing to pay millions before he ever put
on a falcons uni. He would not have gotten this just anywhere. If he
had gone to McNeese State, he would not have been as marketable as he
was. His marketabilty out of college was, in part, due to VTech - he
got something (a lot, imo) out of the deal. Further, he was never
forced to play college ball, but he realized that this was the best way
to make it to the pros. Vick got much from his time at VTech, and just
not money. There are things that have value than just money.

Ed

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