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Employment status is irrelevant. The issue is whether NCAA institutions have colluded to put a wage ceiling in place. The balance of your comment is noted, but it's entirely anecdotal and speculative.

My issue is with competing colleges (in the market for the best players) colluding with one another to place an artificial cap on compensation to players. In the absence of a collectively bargained agreement between the schools and representatives for the players, the caps are probably illegal.

Don't confuse disagreement with trolling. I understand everything you - and most others - are saying. However, all I see is a definition of amateurism; I don't see anything that says why it's worth saving, or worth being in existence in the first place. It would certainly be easier to...

So we have to stay communist so no feelings get hurt? What's the problem with the SMU bagmen? At least if the restrictions were removed we'd know.

False. The NFL has the rule to protect them from themselves. Remove the rule and some of the players would be drafted. Furthermore, just because you aren't in the NFL doesn't mean you don't have value. If it did, you wouldn't care if the rules limiting compensation were removed, because...

Is Thomas more valuable than DJ White? Yeah, probably. But good news! Open up the market and we can find out for sure. The rest of your questions can similarly be answered. Now, I've answered yours. Answer mine: Why shouldn't they get to make what they're worth?

Certainly some of the players go to school, but the overwhelming majority of the best high school baseball players go pro, particularly with the slotting system MLB has now.

I don't think they're entitled to anything except to get paid what they're worth. If they're able to get more, what's the damage done?

Okay, but there's a rule that the NFL has in place that requires a player to be three years removed from high school to play. The baseball players - which you brought up - have a choice. Football players don't. For the life of me, I don't understand why anyone cares if these guys get a...

That might be why there isn't quite the outcry for baseball players to be paid - most of the best ones already are. The same can't be said for football.

You also don't see the best players playing college baseball.

Yes, it would be a redistribution of wealth ... in the direction the market demands. Again, if they aren't worth more than their scholarship, then why would anyone object to eliminating the rules capping what they can make and the means of payment? As for the revenue/profit line, that's also...

If you think they're worth less than the value of their scholarship, then remove the restrictions, since they won't make any more. If you think they're worth more than their scholarship, then I, for the life of me, can't understand why anyone would begrudge them getting paid what they're...

Funny, the one name I haven't seen on this thread about the defense is Freeman, and he might be the best, most important part of the whole damn thing. By the end of the last season, he wasn't playing like a true freshman, or even a sophomore. He was all over the place, and he was playing...

The only reason they say we aren't their biggest rival is to try to get under our skin because we are their biggest rival. As for Florida, if their comments about their record against us are the rule, then by their own definition Florida isn't their biggest rival. It might be worth pointing...

Most impressive part was that it wasn't a defensive lineman or even a linebacker; it was a damn CB, which should provide some level of insight into the level of athleticism we have in our QB.

Hard to hit a guy if you can't catch him.

I believe this about him. However, was this even his decision? Let's just assume it was about marijuana (large assumption, but still), isn't that decision stripped of him by the policy the school has?

I don't believe the NCAA has a testing policy, except that the schools shall have a drug policy and educate athletes on it, and that they may test athletes at NCAA sanctioned championships and bowl games. The violation comes in not following the policy, which I think is, in part, what tripped...

I think there's a fundamental difference between sanctioning the behavior and actively seeking out violations. The likelihood is that at least some underage players probably consume booze, and they probably speed, but there's no testing for either of those things. I won't speak for anyone...