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Topic:  Easterbrook uses us to make a point, punch line
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Tim Burke
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  Message Not Read  Easterbrook uses us to make a point, punch line
   Posted: 10/13/2010 11:29:28 AM 
http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/page2/story?page=easterbro...

Proposals to pay Division I football and men's basketball players usually assume they will be paid salary-like amounts. The economics don't work -- hefty payments would shut down college sports. Pay $50,000 a year (the U.S. median household wage) to the roughly 12,000 Division I football players and that's $600 million annually, or about $5 million annually per Division I school. Ohio State could afford this, could Ohio University? 

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Ohio Pilot
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  Message Not Read  RE: Easterbrook uses us to make a point, punch line
   Posted: 10/13/2010 11:39:51 AM 
Hey at least the author new that there were more DI schools in Ohio besides Ohio State.
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  Message Not Read  RE: Easterbrook uses us to make a point, punch line
   Posted: 10/13/2010 12:30:16 PM 
any stipends would have to come from the NCAA directly, not the individual schools.
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  Message Not Read  RE: Easterbrook uses us to make a point, punch line
   Posted: 10/13/2010 1:56:25 PM 
Wrongheaded argument.  The scandals that rock confidence aren't about the linemen who get paid $50 an hour to work on a carlot.  They're about Reggie Bush and Santonio Holmes, game changers who are lured into schools and drafts by relatively big bucks from boosters and agents.  For those guys, a stipend of "a few thousand dollars" isn't going to do it.  All that's going to do is raise their NCAA "market value".

Having said that, the stipend idea is a great way to ease the burden for the bulk of NCAA athletes at places like Ohio University.  Current NCAA rules on work,  gifts and expenses make it hard to be an athlete.  Let's help the guys who need it and be honest doing it.  We don't have to concoct some scheme about eliminating cheats to make a good idea sound better.
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Mike Coleman
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  Message Not Read  RE: Easterbrook uses us to make a point, punch line
   Posted: 10/13/2010 2:07:39 PM 
Bobcatbob wrote:
Wrongheaded argument.  The scandals that rock confidence aren't about the linemen who get paid $50 an hour to work on a carlot.  They're about Reggie Bush and Santonio Holmes, game changers who are lured into schools and drafts by relatively big bucks from boosters and agents.  For those guys, a stipend of "a few thousand dollars" isn't going to do it.  All that's going to do is raise their NCAA "market value".

Having said that, the stipend idea is a great way to ease the burden for the bulk of NCAA athletes at places like Ohio University.  Current NCAA rules on work,  gifts and expenses make it hard to be an athlete.  Let's help the guys who need it and be honest doing it.  We don't have to concoct some scheme about eliminating cheats to make a good idea sound better.


Exactly. Reggie Bush wants paid more than Jonathan Goodwin on the Saints. He'd want paid more on the college level as well.
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  Message Not Read  RE: Easterbrook uses us to make a point, punch line
   Posted: 10/13/2010 4:17:05 PM 
I don't acknowledge members of the National Socialist Party....
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