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<blockquote data-quote="BCJacket" data-source="post: 651492" data-attributes="member: 2332"><p>Back in the day, a scholarship might have been a good deal. But the NCAA, conferences, schools, TV networks, apparel makers and Bowls are now making Billions on college sports. IMHO, a scholarship is not a fair cut for the folks putting in the labor. The value of a full scholarship to Alabama is about $30,000/year. Not nothing. But the value of the entire scholarship roster for Bama football is about 1/3 of Saban's salary. He's not risking concussion, spinal injury or torn ligaments on every play.</p><p></p><p>To me, the only way this works is for there to be some sort of players committee(s) that negotiate with the NCAA, Conferences and outside interests for the benefit of all the SA's. Have some portion of the money go in to trusts to pay for post-playing healthcare, retirement accounts, grad school scholarships, job placement assistance or whatever. The rest go into a stipend for all SAs. Maybe the Revenue sport SAs get more, maybe the individual players get a bonus based on merch with their # or a percentage of a standard fee for personal appearances... But to have the QB1 at UGA making millions 'cause he's signed with Nike and the TE making thousands endorsing the local Chevy dealer and the WR5 eating ramen because he's got no deal just isn't going to work.</p><p></p><p>ETA: I've seen analyses that put the value of a scholarship over 100k. But that's assuming every athlete only went to college because of the schollarship, they graduate and make a good college grad salary. And had they not had the scholarship every one would only have a high school diploma and make high school graduate average salary. And putting all of the value of future earnings into the scholarship's value. Not really accurate.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="BCJacket, post: 651492, member: 2332"] Back in the day, a scholarship might have been a good deal. But the NCAA, conferences, schools, TV networks, apparel makers and Bowls are now making Billions on college sports. IMHO, a scholarship is not a fair cut for the folks putting in the labor. The value of a full scholarship to Alabama is about $30,000/year. Not nothing. But the value of the entire scholarship roster for Bama football is about 1/3 of Saban's salary. He's not risking concussion, spinal injury or torn ligaments on every play. To me, the only way this works is for there to be some sort of players committee(s) that negotiate with the NCAA, Conferences and outside interests for the benefit of all the SA's. Have some portion of the money go in to trusts to pay for post-playing healthcare, retirement accounts, grad school scholarships, job placement assistance or whatever. The rest go into a stipend for all SAs. Maybe the Revenue sport SAs get more, maybe the individual players get a bonus based on merch with their # or a percentage of a standard fee for personal appearances... But to have the QB1 at UGA making millions 'cause he's signed with Nike and the TE making thousands endorsing the local Chevy dealer and the WR5 eating ramen because he's got no deal just isn't going to work. ETA: I've seen analyses that put the value of a scholarship over 100k. But that's assuming every athlete only went to college because of the schollarship, they graduate and make a good college grad salary. And had they not had the scholarship every one would only have a high school diploma and make high school graduate average salary. And putting all of the value of future earnings into the scholarship's value. Not really accurate. [/QUOTE]
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