Time Cover: It's Time to Pay College Athletes

[Tugg Speedman]

The harm is this:

Select schools and select alumni with DEEP pockets, will simply purchase the top talent.

T. Boone could afford to sign every player to a 6 figure "appearance contract", and thus, OSU would get the best players. Same for a lot of top schools with rich and/or crazy alumni.

Instead of donating $ to the school, their "donation" will be paying players for an appearance at their son's birthday party.

The schools with all the money and really rich alumni are the Ivy League.  Forget Pickens, Harvard has 30 Pickens types.

So if the restrictions are lifted college athletics returns to circa 1890s when everything was dominated by the Ivies. 

You agree with this but this is what will happen based on what you say.

[Canned Goods n Ammo]

The schools with all the money and really rich alumni are the Ivy League.  Forget Pickens, Harvard has 30 Pickens types.

So if the restrictions are lifted college athletics returns to circa 1890s when everything was dominated by the Ivies. 

You agree with this but this is what will happen based on what you say.

Maybe the ivies would dominate... but I don't know if they have the right mix of crazy alumni who would be willing to buy a championship. I think some SEC and Big 12 schools probably do.

[ChicosBailBonds]

With over 15,000 posts on this board, you sure seem to spend a lot of time discussing unimportant topics.

One you felt important enough to comment on.

[Benny B]

Not changing

http://espn.go.com/college-sports/story/_/id/9682086/ncaa-budge-paying-college-athletes

Look at that... ESPN actually calling Marquette by name.