Two words: Jack Molinas. When a lot of money is spent gambling on the performance of unpaid/underpaid athletes, there are a lot of people who’d like to be able to influence athletes who’ve noticed that the stands are full while their pockets are empty.
so the objective is to keep college athletes poor while everyone from their colleges to their coaches to the NCAA to video game makers make hundreds of millions. Something is not right with this
wallylm about 9 years ago
Bingo!
Linguist about 9 years ago
Absolutely ! Even the Olympics gave up the hypocritical farce of pretending that the athletes weren’t professionals.
Godfreydaniel about 9 years ago
The coaches are the ones with the millions of dollars of disposable income—maybe we ought to keep an eye on just how they’re disposing of it?
BeniHanna6 Premium Member about 9 years ago
mfhorn 4 said, about 11 hours ago@OlongapojoeThey could always stop playing.
Bam, mfhorn your definitely on to something. Wonder what would happen if all the football and basketball players unionized and went on strike?
Guilty Bystander about 9 years ago
Two words: Jack Molinas. When a lot of money is spent gambling on the performance of unpaid/underpaid athletes, there are a lot of people who’d like to be able to influence athletes who’ve noticed that the stands are full while their pockets are empty.
hippogriff about 9 years ago
OlongapojoeThey would immediately be kicked out of school, and likely blacklisted so they couldn’t enroll at any other.
timbob2313 Premium Member about 9 years ago
so the objective is to keep college athletes poor while everyone from their colleges to their coaches to the NCAA to video game makers make hundreds of millions. Something is not right with this