{"id":4526,"date":"2011-08-02T08:16:54","date_gmt":"2011-08-02T14:16:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.nsr-inc.com\/\/?p=4526"},"modified":"2011-08-02T08:16:54","modified_gmt":"2011-08-02T14:16:54","slug":"exploitation-is-a-two-way-street-in-college-athletics-but-we-offer-a-unique-idea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nsr-inc.com\/scouting-news\/exploitation-is-a-two-way-street-in-college-athletics-but-we-offer-a-unique-idea\/","title":{"rendered":"Exploitation is a Two-way Street in College Athletics, but We Offer a Unique Idea"},"content":{"rendered":"

Our Solution Suggests Commitment from DI Colleges and Athletes<\/strong><\/p>\n

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DI athletes see unique opportunities to succeed in life, but they give up a lot physically in the process.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

All the hoopla swirling around paying DI athletes, presuming that refers to the major, cash generating sports of football along with men\u2019s and women\u2019s basketball, focuses on exorbitant revenues and their relation to the exploitation of student-athletes.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

We have no dog in the hunt, but we do wonder what major DI athletes think when the conferences their schools belong to continue to sign outrageously large television contracts giving the schools more and more money to spend on everything except, of\u00a0course,\u00a0athlete compensation. Exploitation indeed comes to mind, but who’s exploiting whom?\u00a0 We think it\u2019s a two-way street.<\/p>\n

Think about it.\u00a0 You are an athlete performing week after week for your school.\u00a0 Yes, you are getting both an invaluable commodity and opportunity in return — a quality education and the unique\u00a0chance to demonstrate your skills on college athletics’ biggest stage with sometimes millions of people watching.\u00a0\u00a0What price can you place on each of those?\u00a0 The first is quantifiable — the cost of a four- or five-year\u00a0degree, superior coaching and first rate facilities.\u00a0 Pro-bound athletes have a springboard in place which allows them to leap from high school dreams to the professional ranks.\u00a0 However, with\u00a0just a few college athletes advancing to the professional level, college athletics is the competitive pinnacle for most\u00a0student-athletes.\u00a0 In either case, should\u00a0student-athletes be paid\u00a0for their time and on-the-field\u00a0exploits?\u00a0 Should they get a piece of the TV pie the schools\u00a0capture?\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

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Many DI basketball players experience collision-related injuries during their college careers.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

On the other hand, DI major sports is the only viable access to American amateur athletics’\u00a0top rung where all manner of post-athletic career opportunities and life altering options are made available.\u00a0 When taken full advantage of, DI sports lays out the red carpet for decades to come.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

If you are\u00a0a DI major college, life in major college sports does not come free.\u00a0 You pay coaches loads of money to recruit very well and to then produce a product which will put your institution in prime position to pull in windfall alumni bucks,\u00a0additional freshmen applications, and even more TV money from post-season play such as bowl games and national tournaments.\u00a0 To accomplish all that, your coaches must go out and attract the best of the best high school athletes and that’s not an inexpensive proposition.\u00a0<\/p>\n

So, who’s giving and who’s taking?\u00a0 Does the school or the athlete get the best of the deal?\u00a0 Pretty much a draw, don’t you think?\u00a0 Yeah, but here’s the thing which doesn’t get much, if any air time — the long term effects of high-level college sports on the bodies of the athletes.\u00a0 Everyone, it seems, pays a price.\u00a0<\/p>\n

There are good and bad points to either side of the pay-athletes-or-not debate, so what is really fair?\u00a0\u00a0Here’s a suggestion that to our knowledge has not been presented:\u00a0 instead of paying athletes while they are on scholarship, require DI major colleges to provide them with perpetual life and health insurance as their compensation.\u00a0\u00a0Seen an old college athlete walking around lately?\u00a0 They are seldom without a limp or a slumping shoulder, the not-so-subtle signs of physical over indulgence which often fail to manifest themselves until later in life.\u00a0 Aren’t four or\u00a0five years of extremely hard, physical labor worth everlasting\u00a0coverage?\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0It’s an idea worth\u00a0consideration.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Our Solution Suggests Commitment from DI Colleges and Athletes All the hoopla swirling around paying DI athletes, presuming that refers to the major, cash generating sports of football along with men\u2019s and women\u2019s basketball, focuses on exorbitant revenues and their relation to the exploitation of student-athletes. We have no dog in the hunt, but we … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsr-inc.com\/scouting-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4526"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsr-inc.com\/scouting-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsr-inc.com\/scouting-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsr-inc.com\/scouting-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/29"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsr-inc.com\/scouting-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4526"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsr-inc.com\/scouting-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4526\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsr-inc.com\/scouting-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4526"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsr-inc.com\/scouting-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4526"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsr-inc.com\/scouting-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4526"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}