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FWST: TCU’s Patterson on Fair Pay to Play Act: Amateur athletics go away if bidding wars start
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<blockquote data-quote="Planks" data-source="post: 2768949" data-attributes="member: 55819"><p>College Football currently has a huge optics problem. On one hand you have coaches, athletic directors, school administrators, and TV executives, the majority of whom are white, earning millions of dollars off of the backs of athletes, the majority of whom are black, who play a dangerous, body breaking sport all while getting paid nothing either directly or indirectly (via the use of their likeness).</p><p></p><p>This arrangement will not pass the test of time. Society will continue to see this more and more as a social justice issue. The rules WILL be changed, regardless of whether or not it is good for the game of college football. The history textbooks of the future will have an unfavorable opinion of the current arrangement of college football. Like it or not, that’s the way it’s going to be.</p><p></p><p>I’m not saying I have an idea for a better solution, but I also don’t think it’s out of the question to refer to the current state of college football as “unjust”. I do believe that whatever changes are to come will likely be negative for the game of college football, and almost certainly crippling for the ability of my beloved TCU’s ability to compete in the sport. However despite that, I am open to proposals and changes that have the potential to improve the lives of the athletes. The current arrangement is not fair to the players.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Planks, post: 2768949, member: 55819"] College Football currently has a huge optics problem. On one hand you have coaches, athletic directors, school administrators, and TV executives, the majority of whom are white, earning millions of dollars off of the backs of athletes, the majority of whom are black, who play a dangerous, body breaking sport all while getting paid nothing either directly or indirectly (via the use of their likeness). This arrangement will not pass the test of time. Society will continue to see this more and more as a social justice issue. The rules WILL be changed, regardless of whether or not it is good for the game of college football. The history textbooks of the future will have an unfavorable opinion of the current arrangement of college football. Like it or not, that’s the way it’s going to be. I’m not saying I have an idea for a better solution, but I also don’t think it’s out of the question to refer to the current state of college football as “unjust”. I do believe that whatever changes are to come will likely be negative for the game of college football, and almost certainly crippling for the ability of my beloved TCU’s ability to compete in the sport. However despite that, I am open to proposals and changes that have the potential to improve the lives of the athletes. The current arrangement is not fair to the players. [/QUOTE]
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