Texas to pay all student athletes $10k apiece

[lightsout]

The power 5 conferences are really going to have a leg up on everyone else now.....

http://www.rotoworld.com/player/cfb/132914/charlie-strong

[Da Coach]

The power 5 conferences are really going to have a leg up on everyone else now.....


http://www.rotoworld.com/player/cfb/...charlie-strong

That article from Rotoworld contains some inaccuracies.
It states:

University of Texas athletics director Steve Patterson announced the school will soon begin paying its student-athletes $10,000 a year apiece to cover cost of attendance and likeness rights.
The figure, set by U.S. District Judge Claudia Wilken in her O’Bannon trial ruling in August, will be split evenly, so that $5,000 will go towards cost-of-attendance and $5,000 will serve as payment for UT’s use of the athlete’s name and likeness.
Source: Dallas Morning News

That makes it sound like everything is a done deal, and payments will begin immediately. That is not quite true.
Here is the actual Dallas Morning News article, and it does not say the University of Texas "will soon begin paying its student-athletes $10,000 a year apiece", but instead says:
"The University of Texas could spend nearly $6 million a year to comply with a string of recent legal rulings requiring colleges to be more generous to their scholarship athletes"...
"Assuming the new policies survive the legal appeals process, Patterson said UT won’t have problems paying the extra $6 million to its players. That money will break down to about $10,000 for each player."

http://www.dallasnews.com/sports/college-sports/headlines/20141021-texas-athletic-director-with-new-rules-longhorns-would-pay-each-player-10000.ece

So this is still in the early phase where college Athletic Directors are waiting to see how the legal process plays out, and what other schools plan to do. I don't expect to see actual payments beginning for at least a year, and the end result could look a lot different that these early projections.

[AZ BU Fan]

The power 5 conferences are really going to have a leg up on everyone else now.....


http://www.rotoworld.com/player/cfb/...charlie-strong

I would think $10k annual payment would be a salary cut for most of their better players.

[tornado]

how about cheerleaders? team managers? water boys?

[Chico]

Do they say what they can spend it on? I'd keep a close eye on that one.

[tornado]

yea - there's not much they'd need since those big schools have been providing nice cars, food,
clothing & big-screen TV's, expensive bling & jewelry, cash in envelopes, and female "escorts",
and lots of other gifts and even legwork to get them into the pros by various agents for decades

[tornado]

South Carolina legislators propose a law that would require all football & basketball players at certain schools to be paid

I wonder how this would work - as I assume there will instantly be lawsuits from athletes in volleyball, track, and swimming..

http://jurist.org/paperchase/2014/12/south-carolina-lawmakers-proposes-bill-to-pay-college-athletes.php

[bradleyfan124]

Sometimes I wonder about the idea the "bigger schools" have of paying their basketball and football players will backfire on them. Lawsuits from other non-major sports plus from just regular students might cost them more. I hope it does. It would serve them right

[Vent]

I'm not so certain, that since schools will be able to pay players, it will make that much of a difference, or hurt the mid-major schools. There are only "X" amount of scholarships available for each sport. The bigger schools will be competing among themselves for scholarship players as they currently are. I think it will hurt the big time schools as time goes on, as the biggest of the big will be paying their athletes more. There already is a major disparity from the mid-majors to the top 5 conferences in all sports. Anybody could see this coming several years ago. Let's be honest...college football is the cash cow of the NCAA and members of the big 5 conferences. UAB, which recently dropped football is an exception to the rule. I don't understand why it is alright for the NCAA to make millions of dollars selling clothing and memorabilia of student athletes, when student athletes can't sell their autograph but are allowed to sell a 2 liter bottle of Mountain Dew. It is hypocrisy. Yes the student athlete is getting an education if they are on scholarship. I still don't think the rule is fair. We will continue to see the gap grow between the power conferences and the rest of the schools. What the answer is...I don't know and nobody else does either.

[tornado]

obviously if bigger schools can get anyone they want by paying the athletes upwards of $5,000-10,000 then they have their pick and mid-majors get the leftovers...
but even worse - any kid who excels at the mid-major level will get recruited to the higher levels & entertain transferring as soon as his phone starts ringing

[Vent]

The big time programs are already getting the better players. That is what separates them from the mid-majors. When players start getting wages, it will become more competitive among the big time programs. For example, if Duke pays $5,000 a year to basketball players but Louisville pays $4,000 a year it could be detrimental to Louisville. As far as transferring, players that transfer up are already be tampered with and players aren't getting paid. Remember when New Mexico took Danny Granger from BU? Very few players transfer up in caliber of teams. Most transfer lateral or down and it is usually based on playing time or coaching changes. Most collegiate athletes are driven by competition and playing. That is what separates them from average players. Most players would rather play at a mid-major than never get in a game except for mop up time at a big time school.

[bradleyfan124]

I am hoping the "Big" boys self implode as they start to squabble and fight over who is getting better players because they pay more. It hasn't happened in football but basketball is more balanced

[Vent]

I don't think you're going to see the "big" boys implode. They can charge whatever they want for tickets and maintenance fees. These programs have done it for years before schools like BU even thought about it. They have other sources of income the mid-majors don't. Things such as conference television networks and television packages with local and national networks. Why? Because they can. People flock to winners and love being around winners. From a business standpoint and a personal standpoint, it is very rewarding and self satisfying to be associated with winners. Unfortunately, people like us that are BU fans, are supporting a program that does not now or ever have the financial means to be at that level. It doesn't mean one is right and one is wrong. It is just the way it is. There is still no reason we should not be among the top of the mid-majors.

[tornado]

New Mexico has found a way to try to keep up with paying all their athletes...

they are running ads and maybe bake sales & hitting up their big donors (their equivalent of Braves Club) to raise the money - whatever it takes!

http://www.kob.com/article/stories/s3748034.shtml#.VRbg1_nF9nh

[Canton BU fan]

Considering most of these big schools are public I think they should be giving the taxpayers who support these schools a break or quit taking taxpayer dollars if they are just that flush with cash.