Paul Finebaum details the latest on the NCAA AGREEING to pay players | First Take 

don’t act like other schools weren’t paying players under the table either. look up the Dakotas

They were paying players just like the SEC. Ever heard if Reggie Bush?

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​@HTHAMMACK1 nice try bringing up Reggie Bush. That's not what happened lol

Exactly

better than 0 dollars an hour lol

I am really happy someone brought this up.

exactly, SMU is about to run the ACC

Excellent point.

Yeah I hear that school is loaded

@@Redaku418 it is both money and roster wise, it’ll fight to get in the big picture in 3 years

Definitely was calculated 😂😂

Maybe not

Of all the players, he’s not the one you pay that much.. he is so overrated, good luck

​@@JJdeluxeCSU#1 2025 NFL Pick

@@thatguybill34 never gonna happen!! Worse than Jamarcus as a top pick, Shaddy is Johnny football type crap

@@JJdeluxeCSU He's not remotely similar to either of those players. Just say you don't watch football.

corruption

I dont get this mentality. Walmart makes billions off the backs of their workers for "crumbs". There's no huge movement to get then paid millions of dollars. Why are athletes more special than the rest of us?

Those players are losers and don't deserve crumbs...they deserve nothing. You are here to perform; and any player who doesn't perform should be fired and kicked out of university

@@aishabintabubakr4944What?😂

@@aishabintabubakr4944they do. It’s about time they made money. It’s probably going to destroy my alma mater. Oh well. It’s a great opportunity for players . Now they can get paid and maybe take care of their future.

​@@aishabintabubakr4944can tell u got touched asAChild

You are a eunuch crying over crappy players who perform a trick you can teach a dog.... ..."fetch, boy! Go get that ball!"

But most of those sports and schools lose money. So if in this look back the schools say, we’ll, they were actually employees, not students, do they send bills, including tuition, to those who played sports that cost the school money?

@@zellodavis8453they pocketed BILLIONS consider it paying it “forward” 😁

This will hurt more than it helps. It’s a business. I’m the next couple of years , they will start cutting the smaller sports.

@@garuiz3487 no they won’t

@@RealBuziness Umm... yes, they will. In fact, the P4 universities have admitted as much in their testimonies to Congress. Less than 30 universities turn a profit with their athletic departments. Effectively, this settlement (and the ongoing payments) just relegated, bankrupted, and/or borderline bankrupted over half of the D1 programs. To top it all off, we still have clowns believing the NCAA is exploiting the student-athletes.

They will always exist. Know your place.

Slave rules? Are you familiar with how actual slaves lived and were treated?

@@Tacodip420 how often did u have 2 watch that train on ur mum?

Wrong response but prepare mad because black players will benefit from this. Now, someone needs to talk to these young players to not blow their money

@@Tacodip420 How about you come show us our place boy

its not even the last 10 years, more like 7-8 years smh

Statute of limitations.

Oh for sure it will, extra bit of hunger knowing winners of March Madness split the Rev 👀🍿 (and not just the NIL Big names)

Trickle down effect will be nice to see, plus rev from small Universities hosting like Blue Bloods etc

The SEC will be idk about the rest.

it won’t

My pushback for that would be that competition should elevate honestly, kids coming out of high school being able to justify sports MORE because of actually getting paid? I feel like a lot more parents are going to be pushing their kids to keep up with sports if they want. Overall intrigued and excited!

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No different than the NFL an concussions....

Well said

If I recall correctly, the lawyer fees are to be paid by the defendants, separate from litigation funds.

Make this make any sense

Correction - they will now use this as an excuse.... to charge more etc. etc.

So they should be playing for free?? You are a joke !!! You don’t want to see majority of black players getting paid…just admit it lol

It should be optional is a joke of a farm system

They shouldn't have to. It's not real anyway. These kids are here for the sports and they will get a degree one way or another. They make the money for the big colleges.

@MichaelWalker-wu2pq… let’s be real? Most schools have how many pros per team? I know for basketball at least the number is very very small

@@ryanlebard3787 it differs from school to school. The revenue they generate for these schools is staggering though.

Not really. It's pretty easy. Most of it is public information - First -the revenue from football & Basketball goes to other Olympic & non-Olympic sports...those days are sadly in jeopardy now. Second - it goes to coaches salaries & these crazy $75 million buyouts. Third - it goes to massive Venues that have been expanded over the past 20 years of all of these stadiums. Fourth - it goes to 180,000 scholarships the NCAA gives out yearly, yes that actually costs money...they have to PAY the universities. That's $9 billion dollars a year in scholarships. Fifth - it goes to advertising & exuberant venues for things like College Football Playoffs. Please don't write posts acting like a bunch of Execs and University Presidents are just stuffing billions in their pockets. I'm all for paying players, but the money actually mostly goes BACK toward areas of the university, stadiums or other sports, etc. If that wasn't the case, wouldn't you think we'd be hearing about how rich these individual guys were like we do Elon Musk? The NCAA CEO/President salary is $15 million...coaches make about $10million...AD's make like $1-3 million. I'm not saying that chump change, and players should get PAID, but no one is "stealing" billions in their pockets.

Nope they will still have to pay for those. Because full ride scholarships aren't just in sports. They're an academics as well.

Wouldn't work unless you're talking about only for the athletes because full ride scholarships also apply to non athletes as well.

Or cut tuition so that kids can afford to go to college regardless of how high they can jump.

The scholarship is the lynchpin of recruiting if those were taken away kids would argue that they shouldn’t have to pass or even take classes instead they just doing a job

It’s always been like that lol

you live in a 1st world country you already won the life lottery statistically speaking, there will always be people higher up in life than you it is what it is.

​@@matro8147this is the truth. Living in a well-developed country is such a blessing people don't understand. Of course these countries, especially the usa, got rich through slavery and land theft, then stealing the resources from the global south. But for the people living there, the opportunities and unmatched.

you should have learned how to run, jump or throw a ball.

I said it once and I'll say it again David Stern is a criminal

Nah, it should be allocated based on an estimate of who brought the most money in.

PREACH

THANK YOU

Ofc they can pay, is a billion dollar industry, did you think a scholarship was fair compensation for all the money they produce? ..scholarchip is change money, bootlicker

Tuition is officially a death sentence

Considering that those athletic programs pay for many of other programs and services on campus….I think that the kids still being able to pursue a degree if they want, without debt, is still more than fair. How about you start with taking away a mil or 2 from the wealthy coaches to add to other students financial aid, since you’re so virtuous.

That would be a mistake for a college to do that to your top athletes when they bring the money to your school. I would love if a rival school did this and I advertised that my school doesn't. Easy way to get the talent towards my program. 😂

Well you're ignorant

The inverse is true; sports programs at these schools and the revenue generated from the venues and merch FUND these schools.

@@dillamadukes21 their costs just went up, therefore to balance the equation, they will raise tuition

@@AndreInThe416 "Student Athletes" GENERATE billions for college athletes and should've always been compensated, commensurate with the value they produced. The increase in tuition and the willingness to pass on the costs to students instead of cutting the fat (staff and admin that hold "make work" jobs that hold little to no value) is reflective on institutional rot at the academy. For every athlete they pay, there's hundreds of DEI chairs and "professors of basket weaving studies" that they could axe.

@@dillamadukes21 True but the majority of that money would usually stay within the athletic departments. However, by cutting out boosters and paying student athletes directly now, they will likely all count those salaries as part of the school's annual operating costs. Even if it doesn't cost them a large amount of money relative to their overall operation costs, Universities will most definitely use student athlete salaries to justify raising tuition to recoup the costs. How and by how much, remains to be seen.

@@dillamadukes21 I'm just explaining the financial reality via experience in this sector.

Good point!

Make them pay rent or whatever if they opt out of school and do the requirement of 1 year in college athletics. Most are students and wont go pro so yes pay your schooling. Those who are gifted enough to 1 and done. Shouldnt be required to enroll in classes. They are there for the requirement of 1 year. Either way NCAA is corrupt and good for them.

They already do…. It’s called a scholarship

I believe that to be the case for some. Say there is a prominent mid level college that has had a rich tradition in baseball for many years in any conferencep. What happens to them now that they have not the means to win a bidding war? Would they disappear now into the cellar? The rich may get richer in talent now and eclipse that college based on revenue alone

Amateur ideals have value, to me. Major college football is not an amateur sport.

Division 3 still exists, and the people pearl clutching about amateurism could’ve been watching that level all this time. Amateurism in D1 has been a farce since the 80s lawsuit bringing extreme TV money into these institutions, let alone other forms of revenue they generated

@@RD-wg9em ​​⁠can’t argue against that. Good points. I wonder though how long it’s going to take until the “farce” reaches D3. Until then…Go Bellarmine!