Football team Has Left Paris, France

[hungry]

Unless you pay that bench rider on the women's volleyball team the same amount as the star QB, there's going to be lawsuits...

 

[Michchamp]

I've said it before, but I would be far more ok with the idea that a scholarship is fair compensation if the players actually got what a full ride really means. If you're pushed to practice as much as humanly possible and discouraged from taking more classes than required or the degree you really want to go after, you're not really getting the college experience. That's why I think scholarships should extend beyond the playing years to cover a couple or even a few years of exclusively being a student.

yep.

and having your likeness and image used to market the NCAA and it's products... that's something you could compensate athletes for.

it's not complicated; modeling, advertising, & spokesperson contracts address that everyday, with a rate structure for everytime they show up on a billboard, a commercial airs, the pic is used in a program or presentation, etc. Those funds could be held in a trust that pays out to athletes upon graduation, or some other time.

the NCAA just doesn't want to pay them anything beyond what it has to, in order to maintain the farce that these guys are "amateurs" and "students first."

and given what we know now about CTE, players should have guaranteed lifetime mental and physical health benefits, including compensation if they can't work and provide for their wives and kids at age 40 because of brain damage.

 

[Michchamp]

Unless you pay that bench rider on the women's volleyball team the same amount as the star QB, there's going to be lawsuits...

I don't know if Title IX would require something like that.

and there could be fixed compensation for all athletes, and also variable compensation, like in my example where athletes would be paid royalties or licensing fees whenever their likeness is used. that would benefit star athletes fairly.

I get that there is tension though between athletes in revenue positive sports and those they support. but then again, it does seem fair that if the University, conference, and NCAA is losing money on your scholarship, you really are benefitting from it.

for football and basketball players, that's not the case (espcially since there are requirements that can limit them from going pro immediately.

 

[Gulo Blue]

I don't know if Title IX would require something like that.

and there could be fixed compensation for all athletes, and also variable compensation, like in my example where athletes would be paid royalties or licensing fees whenever their likeness is used. that would benefit star athletes fairly.

I get that there is tension though between athletes in revenue positive sports and those they support. but then again, it does seem fair that if the University, conference, and NCAA is losing money on your scholarship, you really are benefitting from it.

for football and basketball players, that's not the case (espcially since there are requirements that can limit them from going pro immediately.

I don't know how much pressure is put on non-revenue athletes to win, I imagine it's a ton, but if they aren't pushed to the point where they're not really getting a college education, I think there might be a Title IX argument that the revenue players are being denied equal opportunity.

 

[tinselwolverine]

I get that there is tension though between athletes in revenue positive sports and those they support.

There is?

I've never heard of this.

 

[Michchamp]

There is?

I've never heard of this.

it's more like sexual tension. as in athletes that don't generate revenue want to sleep with those that do.

 

[tomdalton22]

it's more like sexual tension. as in athletes that don't generate revenue want to sleep with those that do.

so, scholarship athletes on the baseball and wrestling teams want to have sex with football players and guys on the men's basketball team?

 

[thewolverines24]

so, scholarship athletes on the baseball and wrestling teams want to have sex with football players and guys on the men's basketball team?

Obviously.

 

[hungry]

day 4 in Paris

https://mgoblue.com/news/2018/4/30/football-michigan-wolverines-in-paris-day-4.aspx

 

[TheVictors]

it's more like sexual tension. as in athletes that don't generate revenue want to sleep with those that do.

Olympic Athlete Village called .....

 

[Michlady]

UM alum Bobby Kotick has covered the Michigan Europe trips
https://twitter.com/chengelis/status/991640829784555520?s=21

He also covered most of last year’s trip with some others adding tonit

 

[Michlady]

Nick Baumgardner tweeted

Jim Harbaugh couldn’t keep the secret any longer. Wanted to thank donors Bobby Kotick and Don Graham. Kotick funded trip to Rome last year. Both were donors who funded Paris.


Comments in post above were from Angelique

 

[Gulo Blue]

Sounds like from last year's trip, the anonymous donor (no longer anonymous) was credited with saying he'd cover these trips as long a Michigan wanted to do them, so if there's another donor splitting the cost now, they probably reached out and wanted in on this.

 

[TheVictors]

Seeing some of the comments on twitter - typically UM media retweeting or quoting players because I don't follow players - I can't understand how anybody could possibly have a problem with these trips. The kids seem to LOVE it! Kids in many cases who have never traveled much or flown anywhere at all. It's such a team building thing and something the kids will remember forever. Hell, I backpacked across Europe as a 21yr old before my senior year and it changed my life.

 

[tinselwolverine]

UM alum Bobby Kotick has covered the Michigan Europe trips
https://twitter.com/chengelis/status/991640829784555520?s=21

He also covered most of last year?s trip with some others adding tonit

I'm surprised I never heard of this guy.

He was at Michigan during the time I was there and also Jim Harbaugh; Harbaugh was a couple classes behind me - but apparently the loser couldn't cut it and dropped out.

 

[tinselwolverine]

Don Graham is a piker next to Kottick; Kottick is worth 7 billion, Graham a paltry 500 million...

 

[Michlady]

Is kotick still in relationship with Sheryl Sandberg?

 

[Gulo Blue]

A thread about this (and how big a commitment this is) elsewhere mentioned that buying a candybar is a bigger deal in proportion to the wealth of the average person, than a $1 million house to Bill Gates.

 

[tinselwolverine]

Is kotick still in relationship with Sheryl Sandberg?

I don't know but I knew who she is.

I've seen her on TV and stuff.

 

[Michchamp]

I don't know but I knew who she is.

I've seen her on TV and stuff.

He's been asking her out for months. She told him she liked football players... this is his pathetic attempt to win her over.

Crazy how much money these rich guys have.