March Madness moving to April?

[Fau Teixeira]

i prefer to call it consistent and principled

[MyGodWearsAHoodie]

Athletes are compensated thru free tuition and other perks.  Nobody is forcing them to play sports, if that is not enough compensation they don't have to play. 

[Dave Gray]

^ This is the same rationale that was deemed illegal when jobs tried to pay employees with their own store credits.

Also, when you have a monopoly, you aren't allowed to have that attitude.  There isn't an alternative company to work for.

[MikeO]

^ This is the same rationale that was deemed illegal when jobs tried to pay employees with their own store credits.

Also, when you have a monopoly, you aren't allowed to have that attitude.  There isn't an alternative company to work for.

Who's the monopoly? This has nothing to do with the NFL and NBA.  Are you calling the NCAA a monopoly?

[Dave Gray]

All major professional sports teams are managed monopolies.  The NCAA is, as well. 

There is no other reasonable route for professional football or basketball players in this country.  Short of asking people to leave the country to play elsewhere.

[MikeO]

All major professional sports teams are managed monopolies.  The NCAA is, as well. 

There is no other reasonable route for professional football or basketball players in this country.  Short of asking people to leave the country to play elsewhere.

I disagree about the NCAA being a monopoly but that will take this debate into a different direction and I don't feel like going there.

[MyGodWearsAHoodie]

^ This is the same rationale that was deemed illegal when jobs tried to pay employees with their own store credits.

Also, when you have a monopoly, you aren't allowed to have that attitude.  There isn't an alternative company to work for.

two huge difference

first schools are nonprofits not business.   Second for the amount of benefit a student gets relative to amount of work performed it is not exploitive.

your analogy fails

[BuccaneerBrad]

All major professional sports teams are managed monopolies.  The NCAA is, as well. 

There is no other reasonable route for professional football or basketball players in this country.  Short of asking people to leave the country to play elsewhere.

Nothing wrong with going overseas to play professionally.  And still, there are semi-pro leagues in nearly every major sport.  I can think of at least two semi-pro football leagues on top of the Arena League where guys who aren't good enough for the NFL go.  This girl I work with is from Little Rock, AR and used to be a dancer for the Arkansas Rhinos of the NAFL.