Colleges Are Now Able To Directly Pay Athletes, Surely This Won't Cause Any Issues? | Pat McAfee 

Parameters, not perimeters

And there, not they’re

@@bwfextremeI understand the correction with parameters but the 2nd comment just makes u seem like a dbag 💀

And there won't be

@bwfextreme was just looking out for a friend

Their sports programs certainly are. To be fair, all these colleges are for-profit organisations. Only community colleges aren't.

Buddy they’ve been for-profit organizations for decades now, and it’s causing loads of problems.

Since when were colleges npos?

@@benisrood Where are you getting that they are for profit? From what I can find public universities are non profit with federal tax exemptions?

That’s what I’m saying lol. I liked it better when they did it under the table

If there’s no demand they can be the true amateurs. If it’s less fun because they don’t have money or a crowd then so be it.

Yep, money gotta come from somewhere

The big question for the other 27 non-power conferences (the Big East, the West Coast Conference, etc.) is how much of a slice of the pie will they receive? If it comes down to schools cutting some Olympic sports, it will be sad--all because of the TV money that is flooding the schools with lots of cash.

Sorry but a lot of people have been getting a free ride off the backs of college football players. College football players have been risking rheir long term health playing a very physical sport they love but havent received compensation for being the reason all that revenue was generated. The revenue college football generates belongs to the players, coaching staff and all the folks directly involved in college football operations That revenue doesnt belomg to the softball team, the ping pong team or the strong independent wamen's teams.

Good, some colleges need to focus on academics

How dare you

lol

I live in Georgia but not a UGA fan… I hope GT gets that Coca-Cola money and embarrasses the hell out of them! Lmao

So accurate

I mean it’s not like they were competing for National Championships before…

RIP all college sports that aren’t money making basketball and football.

Big facts

So silly. As if the massive programs didn’t buy players already and at the end of the day, there are only so many starting spots. Players want to play.

@@rexfordmorgan7552 right but the power house school with unlimited funds will be able to buy all the best players and the smaller schools that still have great programs will not be able to. It's really too early to tell but I hope they implement some kind of salary cap or smaller schools won't be able to compete.

just like it should be. If it doesnt make money for the college the sport shouldn't exist

Go to bed grandpa 😂

My friend was a biology major on full ride and getting paid for research in the summers but I never heard anybody saying she needs to pay outta pocket because she gets paid from the school and our music majors would get paid when they went performing for the school but when it’s the athletes it’s a problem 😂

This is such a dumb thought from someone who clearly never went to college

⁠@@user-vs6qe3sq7fit's a pretty fair take. It's not fair to people who have to struggle to pay for college.

@@Markfreeman8 This is a crazy statement life isn’t fair they don’t have to pay for college nobody is forced to go plenty of students have scholarships and grants that cover them it’s not fair for the people that bring in the money to be punished for the struggling students

Can’t you work on campus as a normal student like in the library or whatever? Of course they are still students

@@ssensei34 in name yeah, but before if you failed classes you got kicked off the team scholarship revoked. Now they are essentially employes, is legal to do that anymore? will scholarships still be a thing as now they are employes? It's like a sports league with some weird addtional IQ test.

@@mysteryhombre81 School rules still apply. Every school needs you to maintain a certain GPA in order to be employed by them. The kids working in the library also lose their job if they fail classes. Schools will likely put more effort into making sure a star athlete has good grades.

@@cmike123 That's so strange, as the main reason they are there is for job, not education. It's like your job required a random non related tests all the time to stay employed. I see so many lawsuits happening when people lose their main income when cut. And the end of college sports as a major power as the leagues will have to eventually just become independent contractors, but be associated with the college. Maybe we will see age limits or something.

@@mysteryhombre81 You are making a huge assumption. Most students are getting the education so they can get a job. Athletes are there for the same reason. Most athletes understand the math behind going pro. They may use athletics to pay for the education, but end up having to use the education. Some of the smarter ones tailor their education to help with athletics. NCAA already has eligibility requirements. People that either need extra help with studies, or want to wait a bit for a starting spot already have to Red Shirt to not blow a year of eligibility. I dont think there is an age limit, because people past the mid-20s mark generally are not good enough to make a team.

Right, all these rules against college football players making profit on their image/name and then they walk into the NFL draft with huge customized diamond necklaces and grills lol.

Last 120 years.

Nice

@@LeGeNdxRejectbut why doesn’t the biology major on a full ride that got paid doing research by the school in the summer not get the same bitching as the football and basketball players

We understand

That's what the 22% of sports revenue is, a salary cap.

They get $20 million period. They can blow all 20 on 1 kid, but what is more likely to happen is the money gets spread around.

The real mess is going to be if players unions start lobbying Congress for more than the 22%. The schools are wanting Congress to protect them with an anti trust exemption. And then they still don’t know how title 9 plays into this

Yes, it's terrible that the schools will be forced to share the revenue with the athletes people want to watch.

How else are the universities going to make their billions of dollars

That is what I think is going to happen. Say hello to NFL Junior or NFL Lite. Just let the 40 to 60 powerful football programs break away from the NCAA, and let the other nearly 300 Division One schools continue running the tournaments we all know and enjoy.

So after college you want them to get hit for another 2-3 years to try to make it to the nfl to get hit for 2-5 years that’s stupid

Won’t be too long till college sports are kinda over

Already kinda exists for the NBA but it’s all overseas leagues. The top draft picks in recent years are all international guys.

I like sports betting

Literally not how that works lmfao bro has no understanding of taxes

@@davidwilliams6392 so whenever your state passes a bill to allocate more money to the universities to help fund this who ultimately is paying for it? Are they taking federal grants to pay for it and who pays for that? Are we going to make the players getting paid pay their scholarships or are the taxed tickets, apparel, lottery tickets, city gratitude charges, and students paying to go to that school is that tuition going towards paying players? This isn’t NIL so where is the universities getting the money and how will they be able to sustain the money?

@@JoshWilson1995 a crazy thing called profit from revenue, boosters, investors

@@JoshWilson1995school budgets and athletic departments budgets are separate. There getting paid the money they help generate

@@chris123591 not all sports are money generating probably only the football team is generating money to sustain anything. How do they make there money is off tickets (taxed) merchandise (taxed) donations (tax write offs) and from conferences…. That being said if your not a power 5 then your going to go bankrupt they aren’t generating enough money so they states legislation will put a bill in to tax you more to be able to fund it one way or another the consumer is paying for this. I’m sure you TV subscription will go up, the ticket prices, the sodas at a game, the clothes you buy that supports your team, everything will go up and be taxed more because it’s the only way to sustain it, why do you think these power 5 conferences jumped on this settlement? It’s all about the money

Worse

Way worse

@@mattofthekeys both. There’s ways it’s better and ways it’s worse

For viewers worse For athletes better

Better. Yall white men have benefited enough

YEP😂😂

You mean like there is now? Let’s not pretend the current and past systems weren’t corrupt AF

U wnt to cut the tuition of the ppl who buy the books and builds all classrooms and buildings 😂😂😂… you definitely didn’t graduate with that mindset 💀

The scholarships won't go away. The walk-ons will.

@@TheKaoticivory What are you talking about? Getting rid of athletic scholarships means they have to pay their tuition since they are now being paid.

The most sought after students at any U.S. college campus are enticed to attend by scholarships, fellowships, and tuition remission. There’s competition in the market, and tuition is discounted or fully funded. It’s marketplace supply and demand. Why should it be any different for student-athletes? It’s such a strangely bitter and hateful notion.

@@bradenhazle4378 It's a formality, regardless. The athletic department will just cover the cost of tuition when writing the check.

The scuttlebutt I've heard is that the Walton's, (owners of Walmart) are actually funding Missouri, since that's where their founder went to college. But I agree Tyson alone would push Arkansas into a perpetual Top10 school. It's honestly disgusting how much money they have

We want a semi pro league with the top 50 schools playing each other. I don’t want to see Alabama play school of the blind for 8 weeks out of the year

The big thing is now you’re going to have a Ton of them being arrested every year because they won’t pay taxes on it. The IRS isn’t going to miss. It’ll be like 80% of them being arrested.

NIL is technically outside money. Schools and the NCAA lack the legal authority to either cap or eliminate a student athletes ability to earn outside endorsement money.

Probably work just like the NFL in the since athletes have their salaries from the team and outside endorsements 🤷‍♂️

I’m sure they’ll just go to the feds and ask for money to keep them

Athletic departments have long been separate from the schools at large, don't spread misinformation

@@nathanstruble2177 You can’t call it misinformation if I am projecting. Just because that is the status quo now does not mean that institutions like Alabama or Tennessee will not in the future decide to focus more funding towards athletics due to the revenue and take funding from academics. Also if you are stupid enough to think RU-vid comments are information then I can’t help you or anyone who thinks that way.

EXACTLY

Tuition has nothing to do with sports costs they have boosters. Universities are businesses with investors that EXPECT regular and consistent returns that's real cause of increased tuition.

@@84unisollmao “tuition has nothing to do with sports” brain dead, absolutely no thought processes going through your head.

Tuition doesn't go into athletic departments. Their financials are completely separate.

Athletic departments have long been separate from the schools at large, don't spread misinformation

Except those students put there bodies and time on the line to make your college ALOT of money that then goes into nicer facilities for all the other students. Your tuition Is pennies on the dollar to what they bring in.

@@michaelmiller9320that’s not true as the vast majority of college programs don’t net the school any money

Blame the incompetence of your school. They have been ripping you and the players off for decades

Tuition doesn't go into athletic departments.

Your tuition is for your degree. What the school does with the funds is none of your business

itll prob be one year contracts id think to start with. Too much risk involved for the team and player to hand out a 4 year deal from day 1.

And that will hurt the kids trying to come up from HS. If players stay longer that means less spots for new guys.

Good, an honest days work deserves an honest days pay.

Then you owe them more money, go ahead 😂

Probably just the top 15 richest schools, no way any medium to small schools can ever truly compete again.

because they made 93 billion dollars without having to pay the people that made it for them.

It absolutely was. Even the oldest of players will tell you about 50 dollar handshakes. Now it's just out in the open and, in theory at least, regulatable.