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Jason Svoboda said:
She's right.
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What part of her proposal do you agree with? I read her letter and I didn't see anything relevant.
Are you assuming she has the solutions? There are none. Some schools have money and some do not.
She mentions women's sports. Typical feminist. If ISU gives our women more money where will it come from?
 
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sycamorebacker said:
What part of her proposal do you agree with? I read her letter and I didn't see anything relevant.
Are you assuming she has the solutions? There are none. Some schools have money and some do not.
She mentions women's sports. Typical feminist. If ISU gives our women more money where will it come from?
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If you've been following expansion for the last two decades like I have, you'd realize it has actually been contraction and extraction. If you don't think they will work to squeeze out those not behind their velvet rope, there isn't much I can explain.

Also, it isn't her job to come up with the solutions. That should be at the feet of the NCAA and it's member organizations. But she should speak to when what solutions they are promoting are not favorable to the overall membership. The problem is they ("lesser" membership) keep giving the elites all of the control because they're scared they may lose the table scraps.
 
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The only realistic, long term solution to this issue is for the NCAA to return to an amateur model, where players can receive a full ride scholarship and nothing else. I'd even throw in a set stipend for the athletes, as holding a job can get them in trouble (and the school in trouble) under the old rules, but the stipend must be the same for every athlete at every school.

Anything else will just drive the inevitable demise of college sports as we knew it. It's already gone, but going in the same direction will make it impossible to get it back. At least until the NCAA is broken up.
 
Jason Svoboda said:
If you've been following expansion for the last two decades like I have, you'd realize it has actually been contraction and extraction. If you don't think they will work to squeeze out those not behind their velvet rope, there isn't much I can explain.

Also, it isn't her job to come up with the solutions. That should be at the feet of the NCAA and it's member organizations. But she should speak to when what solutions they are promoting are not favorable to the overall membership. The problem is they ("lesser" membership) keep giving the elites all of the control because they're scared they may lose the table scraps.
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So you agree that her letter was nonsense. I'm just not hearing any solutions outside of an NCAA anti-trust exemption. I think the rich will always be rich and the poor will be poor under any system.
 
sycamorebacker said:
So you agree that her letter was nonsense. I'm just not hearing any solutions outside of an NCAA anti-trust exemption. I think the rich will always be rich and the poor will be poor under any system.
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Sometimes I'm curious how your brain works. Then I just realize I have better things to do.

Of course there will always be rich schools. However, you don't just let them roll right the fuck over everyone else. Considering many state schools receive Government funds for facilities, they are on the hook to help protect those investments but AGAIN, FUCKING AGAIN, it is on the NCAA and member institutions to come up with a fair and equitable (as best as they can) system. Until they do that, I hope folks like her keep telling them "No, this is fucking ridiculous. Go back to the drawing board and try again" until they either completely destroy it or we actually get a decent system in place.
 

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Jason Svoboda said:
Of course there will always be rich schools. However, you don't just let them roll right the fuck over everyone else
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Rich school vs poor school should mean "the rich school has a nicer locker room" not "the rich school lost a lawsuit now the poor school has to pay money to football players at the rich school 10 years ago who played pre-NIL"
 
sycamorebacker said:
What part of her proposal do you agree with? I read her letter and I didn't see anything relevant.
Are you assuming she has the solutions? There are none. Some schools have money and some do not.
She mentions women's sports. Typical feminist. If ISU gives our women more money where will it come from?
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None of the NIL court cases, that I'm aware of, have addressed Title IX...

You may hate that law but remember without Title IX, Livvy Dunne wouldn't have a gymnastics scholie, without NIL, she'd have to work EVERY street corner in her New Jersey hometown and she'd STILL make a pittance of the $$$$ the L$U faithful are willing rain down on her...

Title IX isn't going away
 
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