VICE: Does racial resentment fuel opposition to paying college athletes?
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The problem is that everyone but the player is getting paid already.
And just because you don't know HOW the pay would work is not a good reason WHY they shouldn't be paid.
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But, an extra in a movie doesn't make the same thing Tom Cruise does, does he?
Does everybody on Rihanna's record label get paid what she does? I doubt it.
Simple, some people are worth more than others on the free market.
In 2006, former Kentucky coach Tubby Smith made $2.6 million. In the decade that followed, as Kentucky athletics earnings climbed from $68 million to $132 million, pay for the leader of its flagship team skyrocketed. In 2016, John Calipari made $8.6 million, an amount Kentucky officials justify as fair market value for a coach whose team will generate tens of millions of dollars.
But as more money has surged into Kentucky athletics, records show, Calipari isn’t the only coach cashing in, as the athletes remain amateurs. From 2006 to 2016, pay for Kentucky’s track and field coach climbed from $108,000 to $429,000; men’s tennis coach pay jumped from $122,000 to $230,000; and gymnastics coach pay rose from $112,000 to $252,000. Every coach made more than the school’s average full professor’s salary. In a phenomenon playing out across the country, salaries are soaring for coaches of lower-profile college sports largely subsidized by lucrative football and men’s basketball, whose annual national tournament opens Tuesday.
But a 298 percent pay increase for the same job — Kentucky track and field coach — is startling when compared with what happened in the rest of the economy between 2006 and 2016, a time span that includes a deep recession. Median pay for the average American worker increased 0.7 percent, and even workers in the 95th percentile — those making more than 95 percent of the rest of America — saw pay rise just 13 percent, according to Elise Gould, senior economist with the Economic Policy Institute.
“It’s a system that takes money that should be rightfully going to athletes, many of whom are minorities from underprivileged backgrounds, and reallocates it to coaches and athletic directors, many of whom are middle-aged white men. . . . How can you call that just?” said Andy Schwarz, an economist who has consulted for several lawsuits against the NCAA and college conferences.
“It’s a system that takes money that should be rightfully going to athletes, many of whom are minorities from underprivileged backgrounds, and reallocates it to coaches and athletic directors, many of whom are middle-aged white men. . . . How can you call that just?” said Andy Schwarz, an economist who has consulted for several lawsuits against the NCAA and college conferences.
The motherfukking GYMNASTICS coach makes six figures, but a star athlete can't make a single buck off his likeness?!
Seriously, fukk people like @JALEN HURTS
Seriously, fukk people like @JALEN HURTS
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There is a long history of whites only agreeing to something when it's perceived that a white face benefits from it.The one time it took white folks toabout paying college players....embodied in a millionaire white athlete
Example #1
Example #2
When whites perceive that mostly "others" are benefiting from things, they get all funny but the second a white face is the face of that benefit, they suddenly are sane about shyt.
Fix y'all ways...
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Hating niqqas is the country's biggest detriment to progress.Integrated hospitals killed Single Payer?
Can't be stressed enough
There's a program I know well where the coach makes 5 mil, his son is now the OC (the nepotism and cronyism in football is unrivaled) and already was making over $400,000 as the line coach last year, his son-in-law had no prior football experience but works for the program for right about 100K... and to top it off, the son ain't really qualified to be an OC so they just rehired their old OC to do the job in the shadows while calling him the QB coach. The grift is next level.
