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Title: Expose the NCAA, not the athletes (Exploiting the Student-Athlete/ Amateur college athletics is a for-profit scam)
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URL Source: http://msn.foxsports.com/collegefoo ... se-ncaa-not-reggie-bush-072210
Published: Jul 22, 2010
Author: Jason Whitlock
Post Date: 2011-03-16 14:42:41 by Godwinson
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Expose the NCAA, not the athletes Jason Whitlock Updated Jul 22, 2010 4:18 PM ET The NCAA rule book is not the United States Constitution. If anything, the rule book supporting the bogus concept of “amateur athletics” is akin to the laws that supported Jim Crow, denied women suffrage and upheld slavery. The architect of the modern NCAA, the organization’s former president, Walter Byers, spelled out all of this in his 1997 mea culpa, “Unsportsmanlike Conduct: Exploiting the Student-Athlete.” Byers wrote: “Today the NCAA Presidents Commission is preoccupied with tightening a few loose bolts in a worn machine, firmly committed to the neo-plantation belief that the enormous proceeds from college games belong to the overseers (administrators) and supervisors (coaches). The plantation workers performing in the arena may only receive those benefits authorized by the overseers.” Byers was not and is not a Jesse Jackson sympathizer. Byers is a white, right-wing conservative from Kansas. He was the NCAA’s first president (1951-1988) and sole visionary. He admitted creating a monster. His NCAA memoir was his repentance and call for a fundamental overhaul of a corrupt organization. Reggie Bush is Kunta Kinte, a runaway slave. The media are slave-catchers, mindless mercenaries crucifying child athletes for following the financial lead of their overseer coaches such as Pete Carroll, Lane Kiffin and Nick Saban. I graduated from a very good journalism school. Ball State’s program is not the equal of Northwestern’s or Missouri’s, but I feel quite comfortable that I understand the role of journalists. Journalists are not trained to be attack dogs for morally bankrupt institutions. At some point, we can recognize that an investigative journalism award and individual career advancement do not justify pretending there is some honor in safeguarding the NCAA’s plantation. USC is giving back Reggie Bush’s Heisman Trophy. Call me when Pete Carroll gives back a dime. Call me when USC offers a refund to all the people who purchased Reggie Bush jerseys. Call me when the phony moralizing stops and we, the media, quit demonizing black kids for cashing in like white men. If you read this column regularly, you know I’m fond of the TV show "The Wire" and making Wire- related analogies. The pursuit of Reggie Bush and his Heisman Trophy is the equivalent of police commissioner Ervin Burrell demanding a “buy-bust sting” and “dope on the table.” It’s a publicity stunt. Everyone is falling for it. It’s working so well that Nick $aban had the audacity to climb on his LSU-Dolphins-Alabama high horse and claim that the rules-breaking street agents are pimps. It takes one to know one, Nick “Mr. White Folks” Saban. Pack journalism must die. My industry/profession has sold the NCAA lie for too long. We’ve served as the NCAA’s volunteer investigative unit for 40 years. Why? We know exactly what Byers knows and admitted: amateur athletics is a for-profit scam. Television and money perverted college football and basketball a generation ago. Coaches and administrators are making millions. The athletes are being compensated in a currency (a shot at a compromised education in their spare time) many of them don’t respect and haven’t been properly prepared to use. The NCAA takes most of the money generated by football and men’s basketball and invests it in welfare sports that don’t generate a dollar and are played mostly by kids who have nothing in common with the football and basketball players who produced the revenue. Add in that we now have a far better understanding of the long-term health risks associated with playing football and it’s even more clear why these young people can’t resist taking what’s offered to them. Reggie Bush is Kunta Kinte. The media are going to chop his Heisman Trophy off, drag him back to USC’s plantation and let new athletic director Pat Haden lash his legacy in front of Chicken George, Fiddler and Kizzy. And several reporters will get promotions, pay raises and a few plaques for “catching” Reggie Bush. I have a great deal of respect for the reporters at Yahoo Sports, the media outlet that has led the Bush investigation. But I have no respect for the NCAA rule book. I have no respect for the sports journalism- awards culture that rewards NCAA rules-violation stories. Yahoo Sports has done awesome work exposing financial links between summer basketball kingpins, the Pump brothers, and high-profile college basketball coaches and administrators. I mention this because I don’t want to create the impression that reporters I respect solely focus on supporting out- of-date NCAA/amateur athletics rules. But this Reggie Bush story has infuriated me. I’ve listened to too many talking heads shred Bush and street agents as though they’re the problem in college athletics. The problem is the lie, the original sin, the myth that our society is enhanced by protecting the fallacy of “amateur athletics.” Rather than destroy Reggie Bush and his Heisman Trophy, aggressive, righteous journalists should work to destroy the NCAA and every other institution in support of the amateur lie. E-mail Jason or follow him on Twitter. Media requests for Mr. Whitlock should be directed to Fox Sports PR.
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#1. To: Godwinson (#0)
Cry me a fookin river you overpaid, overweight racist pig. No one forces anyone to play college athletics.
I Know you are a troll but what is up with so called conservatives not wanting people to get paid?
"Keep Your Goddamn Government Hands Off My Medicare!" - Various Tea Party signs.
What's wrong with profit?
whats wrong with paying college athletes?
"Keep Your Goddamn Government Hands Off My Medicare!" - Various Tea Party signs.
They are, the good ones get scholarships. College is supposed to be amateur athletics, the pro's are who get paid. You think maybe we should pay engineering majors before they graduate and go to work in the real world too? Are you too stupid to understand the difference between an amateur and a pro? Like I told you yesterday, the profits from big colleges' sports programs are used to fund all the various money losers like baseball, girl's basketball, golf, crew, soccer, lacrosse, tiddlywinks, etc., for both genders. (Liberal judges forced that on the schools, that's why they have so many goofy useless sporting events no one attends). You want to add what football and basketball contribute to funding them to the additional "athletic fees" that are already charged the students, many of whom don't give a rat's ass about any sports, even the big ones?
So unproductive / mildly popular sports played mostly by middle and upper class whites get funded off the billions generated by the labor of usually poor black men. Reverse welfare. If the sports were for amateur athletics they would not be generating billions in profit. The cost of an education and room and board don't even come close to producing an equitable trade off for the football and basketball player in college where coaches can sign endorsement deals but the athletes can't even be given a used car to drive. We are not even talking public money here. Again, what's up with you so called conservatives once again not wanting a segment of the population making more money. So called conservatives gripe about the money union auto workers make (and inflate the real salaries) So called conservatives gripe about the money teachers make. And so called conservatives defend an indentured servitude system in college sports. (and I know in your case Happy Quanzaa, it probably is a case of racism because you are a filthy racists and does not want to see wealthy young blacks in college sports but I think this attitude goes beyond the standard racial punks like you)
"Keep Your Goddamn Government Hands Off My Medicare!" - Various Tea Party signs.
If that isn't an example of the oft quoted Marxist slogan "From each according to his ability, to each according to his need", I don't know what is.
You have the courage to tell the masses what no politician told them: you are inferior and all the improvements in your conditions which you simply take for granted you owe to the efforts of men who are better than you. Ludwig von Mises in a letter to Ayn Rand
Why do these so called Republicans resist any effort to get people who earned it more pay? In the case of college players they are not getting any pay at all beyond a barter agreement - room and board and free education. If college players went on strike and not played in exchange for a slice of the broadcast rights these so called free market conservatives would side with the schools and TV network against the college player. Why? It could be racist hate or it could be a sense they want people to know their place and be sheep and not make waves? Maybe it's class envy? They don't want out of spite for people to make more money than they do since they are stuck with no upwards mobility why should others be able to move up? I am thinking its a mix of upward mobile class spite and racial animosity involved here.
"Keep Your Goddamn Government Hands Off My Medicare!" - Various Tea Party signs.
Unfortunately the universities are loaded w/ Marxists. But the funding for the worthless sports came more from the activist judges. Often when a school tried to cut a sport with few participants and no fans the courts forced them to keep them, as a matter of "fairness and diversity". Usually it's the offended dykes and drag queens from some butch sport that file the lawsuits.
You are such a fucking idiot. What money is generated? -- “Most college football programs lose money. According to an article titled “The Enemy is Us: Cost Reduction College Sports,”(Inside Higher Ed [31 January 2005]) “Maybe five in the country make money (if you could get them to report their income and expenses honestly and fully). The other 112 or so lose money; some lose a great deal of money.” That’s for the major programs. The lower division schools, Divisions II and III and NAIA, spend a greater percentage of their universities’ budgets on their football programs, thereby losing a greater percentage of their budgets." We should be charging players to play rather then giving them scholarships and free room and board.”
Now, I know I’m not going to change the minds of any of the True Believers…those who read all of Reverend Al’s sermons, and say things like, “You know, global warming can mean warmer OR colder, wetter OR drier, cloudier OR sunnier, windier OR calmer, …”. Can I get an ‘amen’??
What has that got to do with football players getting paid?
You have the courage to tell the masses what no politician told them: you are inferior and all the improvements in your conditions which you simply take for granted you owe to the efforts of men who are better than you. Ludwig von Mises in a letter to Ayn Rand
So you don't want capitalism in school? Because some schools lose money the athletes from schools that make money should deprive themselves? FU, commie. Why don't you want college players of money making teams to get any compensation for their work?
"Keep Your Goddamn Government Hands Off My Medicare!" - Various Tea Party signs.
How dense are you? If they pay the football and basketball players more than full scholarships that worth $70-80K + bennies they're already getting that's going to take from the money they give the dykes.
Almost ALL of them lose money, dumbass, while the players you say are being exploited are recieving the equivalent of $100,000 a year in benefits. Get a fucking clue, commie.
Now, I know I’m not going to change the minds of any of the True Believers…those who read all of Reverend Al’s sermons, and say things like, “You know, global warming can mean warmer OR colder, wetter OR drier, cloudier OR sunnier, windier OR calmer, …”. Can I get an ‘amen’??
Yea, they are all over the place for reasons as to why the college athlete should not be entitled to any of the mega millions college sports generates. It is not even a question of salary - in this article we have a college athlete who did not cheat, but accepted some sort of monetary gratuity and now he has to hand back his much deserved trophy. For what? For making money off his talent? While the college and the coach made millions selling their t-shirts and endorsements?
"Keep Your Goddamn Government Hands Off My Medicare!" - Various Tea Party signs.
So? You are defending dyke sports now? Because you are arguing against changing this system.....I know you are a clueless racist pig but please try and be consistent.
"Keep Your Goddamn Government Hands Off My Medicare!" - Various Tea Party signs.
So what they lose money. Colleges are private - if they lose money - that's not my problem. Even if the benefits are $100,000 a year for college athletes that is still being underpaid. If they paid the college athlete what he was really worth based on team income generation then he could afford to pay for school on his own. So your argument is stupid.
"Keep Your Goddamn Government Hands Off My Medicare!" - Various Tea Party signs.
The University of Nevada wants to change conferences to boost revenue derived from its football program. They say increased income will provide more stuff for the school (how could that be if football was a money looser) Of the 118 Football Bowl Subdivision (formerly known as Division 1-A) schools in 2008, the WAC’s highest-ranking team on the revenue list is Hawaii at #71 with $32,012,865 for the year. To get a better perspective of where the rest of the WAC stands up to the country, the top 53 teams in the country all generate more than $45 million a year. The University of Texas is on top with $120,288,370, which is nearly $100 million more than the University of Nevada. http://studentdev.jour.unr.edu/mschembri/?p=214 Sounds like a lot of money to me.
You have the courage to tell the masses what no politician told them: you are inferior and all the improvements in your conditions which you simply take for granted you owe to the efforts of men who are better than you. Ludwig von Mises in a letter to Ayn Rand
Notice how suddenly Happy Quanzaa & no gnu taxes are commie/socialists who want to maintain money losing sports programs that survive on the income generated by a viable program? Why are the coaches paid professional level salaries if this is an amateur sport only? Why is that? I ask again, why do they resist paying college athletes a portion of the money a college makes on football / basketball?
"Keep Your Goddamn Government Hands Off My Medicare!" - Various Tea Party signs.
Is that not indicative of the system the GOPigs are supporting? Where the workers - in this case athletes - get paid a minimum - room and board and a dubious "free" education (athletes are told to major in fake majors programs because if they really wanted to major in a true course it would take away from the football/basketball training and they would be cut from the team) while the system rakes in mega millions that benefits a small clique? That is in a nutshell the GOPig order of society.
"Keep Your Goddamn Government Hands Off My Medicare!" - Various Tea Party signs.
Because football is a profit center for the college and paying the players a salary eats into their profit just as paying the average worker a decent salary eats into corporate profits.
You have the courage to tell the masses what no politician told them: you are inferior and all the improvements in your conditions which you simply take for granted you owe to the efforts of men who are better than you. Ludwig von Mises in a letter to Ayn Rand
As long as we're on the topic of sports and money, why do professional teams demand the community in which they reside build their stadiums. Why don't they build their own?
You have the courage to tell the masses what no politician told them: you are inferior and all the improvements in your conditions which you simply take for granted you owe to the efforts of men who are better than you. Ludwig von Mises in a letter to Ayn Rand
Duh! I was just amused at the pretzel logic Happy Quanzaa, no gnu taxes were using to justify not paying someone a wage in this case they would clearly deserve. I mean they can argue teachers suck so they should not get raises or that American workers in general are lazy and suck and if not for their millionaire bosses would be unemployed. But athletic performance is quantifiable nor is college athletes favored by any quota system. It's all merit. But even in this case where the person can show that the value is in the player they refuse to accept the notion of fair compensation or in fact any compensation. Happy Quanzaa, no gnu taxes are morons (I was amused by their pro communist arguments why not to pay football and basketball college players) - so talking to them may be a waste of time on this but it does illustrate a point.....
"Keep Your Goddamn Government Hands Off My Medicare!" - Various Tea Party signs.
The Maloofs are moving their basketball team to Anaheim because Sacramento turned down their demand for a new arena. And the Maloofs still owe the taxpayers of Sacramento 70 million for Arco. Sounds like a socialist enterprise to me.
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Not a clue. If the city rented it out to the sports team that's different but they provide stadiums rent free. Everything in America is a scam carried on the backs of the working man.
"Keep Your Goddamn Government Hands Off My Medicare!" - Various Tea Party signs.
A Socialist would have seem the money returned to the people. This is just plain corporatism.
"Keep Your Goddamn Government Hands Off My Medicare!" - Various Tea Party signs.
Some are. Most are not. Do you have a clue about ANYTHING?
Now, I know I’m not going to change the minds of any of the True Believers…those who read all of Reverend Al’s sermons, and say things like, “You know, global warming can mean warmer OR colder, wetter OR drier, cloudier OR sunnier, windier OR calmer, …”. Can I get an ‘amen’??
Conservatives have lots of exceptions to their Capitalist rules.
You have the courage to tell the masses what no politician told them: you are inferior and all the improvements in your conditions which you simply take for granted you owe to the efforts of men who are better than you. Ludwig von Mises in a letter to Ayn Rand
“Most college football programs lose money. According to an article titled “The Enemy is Us: Cost Reduction College Sports,”(Inside Higher Ed [31 January 2005]) “Maybe five in the country make money (if you could get them to report their income and expenses honestly and fully). The other 112 or so lose money; some lose a great deal of money.” That’s for the major programs. The lower division schools, Divisions II and III and NAIA, spend a greater percentage of their universities’ budgets on their football programs, thereby losing a greater percentage of their budgets." We should be charging players to play rather then giving them scholarships and free room and board.”
Now, I know I’m not going to change the minds of any of the True Believers…those who read all of Reverend Al’s sermons, and say things like, “You know, global warming can mean warmer OR colder, wetter OR drier, cloudier OR sunnier, windier OR calmer, …”. Can I get an ‘amen’??
I see it as the worst of both. They were demanding that the local taxpayers build them a better stadium and they didn't get their way, so they were on the hunt for another taxpayer subsidized venue. They found it in Anaheim.
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I think the taxpayers who pay for stadiums are supposed to wait for money to trickle down to the community.
You have the courage to tell the masses what no politician told them: you are inferior and all the improvements in your conditions which you simply take for granted you owe to the efforts of men who are better than you. Ludwig von Mises in a letter to Ayn Rand
So why are you defending money losing schools? Shut them down. I only care about the money winners.
"Keep Your Goddamn Government Hands Off My Medicare!" - Various Tea Party signs.
What does that mean? Is someone making a guess?
You have the courage to tell the masses what no politician told them: you are inferior and all the improvements in your conditions which you simply take for granted you owe to the efforts of men who are better than you. Ludwig von Mises in a letter to Ayn Rand
Rek, can you figure out why the resident so called conservatives on here would be against paying the athletes a portion of the revenue generated?
"Keep Your Goddamn Government Hands Off My Medicare!" - Various Tea Party signs.
It means "revenue" doesn't equate to profit -- A favorite argument of those who argue that big-time NCAA football turns a profit is that teams that participate in Bowl games, especially the BCS games, surely turn a profit with the big payouts. A brilliant example of this fallacy is the University of Wisconsin, which, as winner of the 1998 Rose Bowl, received a payout of $1.1 million. Despite this, they lost $286,700 on the trip. This was largely the result of paying for “832 people to attend, including players, band members, boosters, and university administrators.” (Welch Suggs, “A Look at the Future Bottom Line of Big-Time Sports,” Chronicle of Higher Education (12 Nov. 1999)).
Now, I know I’m not going to change the minds of any of the True Believers…those who read all of Reverend Al’s sermons, and say things like, “You know, global warming can mean warmer OR colder, wetter OR drier, cloudier OR sunnier, windier OR calmer, …”. Can I get an ‘amen’??
Why does the University pay for boosters and administrators to attend a football game?
You have the courage to tell the masses what no politician told them: you are inferior and all the improvements in your conditions which you simply take for granted you owe to the efforts of men who are better than you. Ludwig von Mises in a letter to Ayn Rand
It's basically accounting gimmicks. Greed is only good for management which is often accounted for on the asset side especially if it's revenue generating. If it's on the expense side of the ledger like a player position, they want to minimize it. That way alumni and/or stockholders will be pleased.
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Those so-called student-athletes can go play professionally if they so desire. They have plenty of choices, ignoramus.
The NBA and NFL ban or restrict direct bidding from High School.
"Keep Your Goddamn Government Hands Off My Medicare!" - Various Tea Party signs.
Those aren't the only choices, ignoramus.
Unions tried to fix it but management - which is in collusion with the college basketball people tried to block it.
"Keep Your Goddamn Government Hands Off My Medicare!" - Various Tea Party signs.
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#2. To: Ibluafartsky (#1)
#3. To: Godwinson (#0)
for-profit
#4. To: Happy Quanzaa (#3)
#5. To: Godwinson (#4)
whats wrong with paying college athletes?
#6. To: Happy Quanzaa, go65, lucysmom (#5)
Like I told you yesterday, the profits from big colleges' sports programs are used to fund all the various money losers like baseball, girl's basketball, golf, crew, soccer, lacrosse, tiddlywinks, etc., for both genders.
#7. To: Godwinson, Happy Quanzaa, go65 (#6)
Like I told you yesterday, the profits from big colleges' sports programs are used to fund all the various money losers like baseball, girl's basketball, golf, crew, soccer, lacrosse, tiddlywinks, etc., for both genders.
#8. To: lucysmom, Happy Quanzaa, go65 (#7)
If that isn't an example of the oft quoted Marxist slogan "From each according to his ability, to each according to his need", I don't know what is.
#9. To: lucysmom (#7)
(Edited)
If that isn't an example of the oft quoted Marxist slogan
#10. To: Godwinson (#6)
get funded off the billions generated by the labor of usually poor black men. Reverse welfare.
#11. To: Happy Quanzaa (#9)
Unfortunately the universities are loaded w/ Marxists. But the funding for the worthless sports came more from the activist judges. Often when a school tried to cut a sport with few participants and no fans the courts forced them to keep them, as a matter of fairness. Usually it's the offended dykes and drag queens from some butch sport that file the lawsuits.
#12. To: no gnu taxes (#10)
“Maybe five in the country make money
#13. To: lucysmom (#11)
What has that got to do with football players getting paid?
#14. To: Godwinson (#12)
Because some schools lose money
#15. To: lucysmom, Happy Quanzaa (#11)
What has that got to do with football players getting paid?
#16. To: Happy Quanzaa, lucysmom (#13)
How dense are you? If they pay the football and basketball players more than full scholarships that worth $70-80K + bennies they're already getting that's going to take from the money they give the dykes.
#17. To: no gnu taxes, lucysmom (#14)
Almost ALL of them lose money, dumbass, while the players you say are being exploited are recieving the equivalent of $100,000 a year in benefits. Get a fucking clue, commie.
#18. To: no gnu taxes (#10)
Most college football programs lose money
#19. To: lucysmom, Happy Quanzaa, no gnu taxes (#11)
#20. To: lucysmom (#18)
#21. To: Godwinson (#19)
Why are the coaches paid professional level salaries if this is an amateur sport only?
#22. To: Godwinson (#20)
That is in a nutshell the GOPig order of society.
#23. To: lucysmom, Happy Quanzaa, no gnu taxes, go65 (#21)
Because football is a profit center for the college and paying the players a salary eats into their profit just as paying the average worker a decent salary eats into corporate profits.
#24. To: lucysmom (#22)
As long as we're on the topic of sports and money, why do professional teams demand the community in which they reside build their stadiums. Why don't they build their own?
#25. To: lucysmom (#22)
As long as we're on the topic of sports and money, why do professional teams demand the community in which they reside build their stadiums. Why don't they build their own?
#26. To: Rek (#24)
The Maloofs are moving their basketball team to Anaheim because Sacramento turned down their demand for a new arena. And the Maloofs still owe the taxpayers of Sacramento 70 million for Arco. Sounds like a socialist enterprise to me.
#27. To: Godwinson (#17)
Colleges are private - if they lose money - that's not my problem
#28. To: Godwinson (#23)
I mean they can argue teachers suck so they should not get raises or that American workers in general are lazy and suck and if not for their millionaire bosses would be unemployed. But athletic performance is quantifiable nor is college athletes favored by any quota system. It's all merit.
#29. To: lucysmom (#18)
#30. To: Godwinson (#26)
A Socialist would have seem the money returned to the people. This is just plain corporatism.
#31. To: Godwinson (#25)
If the city rented it out to the sports team that's different but they provide stadiums rent free.
#32. To: no gnu taxes, lucysmom (#27)
Some are. Most are not.
#33. To: no gnu taxes (#29)
if you could get them to report their income and expenses honestly and fully
#34. To: lucysmom, Rek (#28)
#35. To: lucysmom (#33)
#36. To: no gnu taxes (#35)
Despite this, they lost $286,700 on the trip. This was largely the result of paying for “832 people to attend, including players, band members, boosters, and university administrators.”
#37. To: Godwinson (#34)
Rek, can you figure out why the resident so called conservatives on here would be against paying the athletes a portion of the revenue generated?
#38. To: Godwinson, lucysmom, Rek (#34)
Rek, can you figure out why the resident so called conservatives on here would be against paying the athletes a portion of the revenue generated?
#39. To: Ibluafartsky (#38)
#40. To: Godwinson (#39)
The NBA and NFL ban or restrict direct bidding from High School.
#41. To: All (#39)
Beginning 2005, both the NBA and the players' union started to discuss the possibility of implementing a new age limit. The league lobbied for an age minimum of 20 while the union was in favor of not having any age limit.[17] Finally in July 2005, both sides compromised in the new collective bargaining agreement, requiring that the minimum age for entry into the NBA be 19 and that entrants be at least one year removed from high school.
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