neon
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Post by neon on Apr 27, 2014 12:47:29 GMT -5
Given the financial state of most HBCU's athlete program, if the NCAA start allow stipends to athletes how do you think this will affect their programs?
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Post by aggieclt on Apr 27, 2014 14:04:25 GMT -5
I have been thinking about this & how it would affect A&T for a while now. Personally, I am holding on to the thought/belief that a student-athlete receiving a free education is payment enough. However, the sacrifices that the student-athletes make combined with the financial windfall they produce for their universities cannot be ignored. I am truly on the fence regarding this topic.
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Post by saabman on Apr 27, 2014 17:44:01 GMT -5
Given the financial state of most HBCU's athlete program, if the NCAA start allow stipends to athletes how do you think this will affect their programs? College athletes have always recieved stipends so that is nothing new. But what is new is the Play for Pay idare that is takeing over. This will not effect the smaller programs but the larger programs will be open to a bidden war for the top high school players. You just as well take the student of student athlete and put Pro in training. lol |
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Post by neon on Apr 28, 2014 12:04:04 GMT -5
I wasn't aware that scholarship athletes received any additional monies other than there tuition, books and meals?
If NCAA says ok you can give these athletes money then not necessarily how will we compete with the larger programs but how will we be able to win a recruiting war with the likes of an UNCC or Elon, when I would assume that they could offer not only a full scholarship but more money per year
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Post by saabman on Apr 28, 2014 13:07:49 GMT -5
I wasn't aware that scholarship athletes received any additional monies other than there tuition, books and meals? If NCAA says ok you can give these athletes money then not necessarily how will we compete with the larger programs but how will we be able to win a recruiting war with the likes of an UNCC or Elon, when I would assume that they could offer not only a full scholarship but more money per year It's funds for personal items, launder.. But nothing like they are talking about now. Schools like Elon and A&T will not be that much effected because we will always have a good pool of over looked players and 1-2-3 star players. But the bigger schools like UNC, DUKE and so on will be hit hård if it goes to pay for play. |
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Post by oleschoolaggie on Apr 28, 2014 13:11:54 GMT -5
i think this is a very "complex" issue and there's no perfect solution. if college athletes are allowed to be paid by universities, on what basis will they be paid? not all college athletes generate income for their university and for those who do, they don't all generate an equal amount of income. so do you give all athletes the same amount? and if so, based on what?
and, what further complicates this is the notion of a college legally "paying" a student athlete. anytime money exchanges hands between athlete and school at the major d1 level, you're asking for trouble. why? because that opens the door for rich booster's to cheat and pay lucrative amounts to star athletes in the name of a new rule. very sticky situation and there's no easy answers.
so how might this affect hbcu's? well, we don't know yet. but what we do know is that hbcu's are not gonna pay any athletes money beyond the value of their scholarship. now that's pretty much guaranteed because hbcu's can't afford to pay their athletes additional money on top of the expense of their scholarship. just not gonna happen at the hbcu level.
and if its mandated at the d1 level for all schools to pay their athletes, look for a mass exodus of d1 hbcu's returning to the d2 level...
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saabman
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Post by saabman on Apr 28, 2014 13:19:28 GMT -5
OSA I think that this is going to effect D-2 also. I could be mistaken .
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Post by neon on Apr 28, 2014 13:28:16 GMT -5
I wasn't aware that scholarship athletes received any additional monies other than there tuition, books and meals? If NCAA says ok you can give these athletes money then not necessarily how will we compete with the larger programs but how will we be able to win a recruiting war with the likes of an UNCC or Elon, when I would assume that they could offer not only a full scholarship but more money per year It's funds for personal items, launder.. Is that certain? I thought at one point in time a full scholarship athlete couldn't even have a job during the academic year? |
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Post by saabman on Apr 28, 2014 14:41:29 GMT -5
It's funds for personal items, launder.. Is that certain? I thought at one point in time a full scholarship athlete couldn't even have a job during the academic year? It's still that way I think. |
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