The House Settlement (Officially Paying Players)

[TxFrog1999]

The House settlement has been finalized, clearing the way for schools to directly pay athletes.

Thoughts?

Personally, I continue to have my enthusiasm for college athletics diminished year-after-year.

 

[hiphopfroggy]

The House settlement has been finalized, clearing the way for schools to directly pay athletes.

Thoughts?

Personally, I continue to have my enthusiasm for college athletics diminished year-after-year.

Knowing nothing about this but just having a quick look it seems like this is basically a salary cap of $20.5m for a Universities Athletic Dept, is this correct?

If so, will TCU be hitting the $20.5m salary cap each year?

If yes, then this is the best thing that could have happened for TCU.

 

[HToady]

So every year an athlete can transfer, and leech of another schools salary cap for the next year?
Anybody playing because they like the school, or can get a good education, or their parents went there?

 

[The Artist Formerly Known as PhormerPhrog]

The House settlement has been finalized, clearing the way for schools to directly pay athletes.

Thoughts?

Personally, I continue to have my enthusiasm for college athletics diminished year-after-year.

In 20 years university athletic facilities across the country will look like abandoned ruins. Many universities will too.

 

[JetFlyingFrog]

In 20 years university athletic facilities across the country will look like abandoned ruins. Many universities will too.

i'll take the under on that. outside of the p4, the majority are hanging by a thread. even in the p4. may be closer to 5 years than 20.

sad. as tx said, and perhaps because i'm in my 40s and older now, i'm less and less interested in this semi-pro league.

bring back boise-oklahoma '07 era. or tcu-wisconsin '10. that was grit. now it's all flash.

get off my lawn.

 

[LSU Game Attendee]

Knowing nothing about this but just having a quick look it seems like this is basically a salary cap of $20.5m for a Universities Athletic Dept, is this correct?

If so, will TCU be hitting the $20.5m salary cap each year?

If yes, then this is the best thing that could have happened for TCU.

Great to have a salary cap! The Aggies have an honor code that bars cheating, so they will strictly adhere to the cap- level playing field ahead!

 

[Big Frog II]

The schools have a salary cap, but I think the players can still also get money form other deals.

 

[FroginBedford68]

The House settlement has been finalized, clearing the way for schools to directly pay athletes.

Thoughts?

Personally, I continue to have my enthusiasm for college athletics diminished year-after-year.

Almost on a daily basis recently.....

 

[NovaScotiaFrog]

bring back boise-oklahoma '07 era. or tcu-wisconsin '10. that was grit. now it's all flash

The same year as TCU-Wisconsin, Cam Newton was winning a national championship for a team that paid him quite well. Deservedly so.

The kids always should have been getting paid. This is righting a wrong so I'm glad to see that. The sport will adjust and move on, same as always.

 

[HToady]

OK . I got it.
Assume 300 athletes per school.
$20,500,000 / 500 shares or $41,000 per share
Players that don't start get 1 share or $41,000
Starters get 2 shares or $82,000
Stars (conference luminaries) get 3 shares or $123,000

Of course none of this comes close to Shadure money....

 

[hometown frog]

Not sure where folks are seeing the revenue sharing as the end of collegiate sports. It’s not mandatory. So if a school feels like they cannot afford it within their budget, then they can decide not to distribute at a full share or any share. Athletes will continue to chose schools based upon their best interests. So that just continues.

the bigger money is still in the NIL collectives. I see the House Settlement helping out all the other players and the NIL continuing to be the big fish revenue source.

 

[gohornedfrogs]

The same year as TCU-Wisconsin, Cam Newton was winning a national championship for a team that paid him quite well. Deservedly so.

The kids always should have been getting paid. This is righting a wrong so I'm glad to see that. The sport will adjust and move on, same as always.

Not everyone agrees with this, especially many former college athletes, this one included. Perhaps we need to define “getting paid,” though. I can understand a minor salary of max 50k-75k or so to allow student athletes to live comfortably. But we have 18 year olds making seven figures now. That’s a professional athlete, not a student athlete.

It’s out of control and the game we loved is becoming something entirely different, and not for the better.

College football was great BECAUSE they weren’t professional athletes. Making it a minor league sport will make it exactly that.

 

[Dogfrog]

I’m old but the current semi-pro direction is semi-sustainable in that in a few years there will be two leagues - Big 10 and SEC playing toward a one game playoff. They will get all the money and happy as clams. The rest of us need to go back to the original concept - 4 year player contract, progress toward a degree, and basic room and board. It was successful for over 100 years and there is still a market for it.

 

[An-Cap Frog]

Basketball only schools be like...

 

[Wog68]

Am thinking that our women's teams should get 55%.

 

[ShreveFrog]

I’m glad players are getting paid. Multi-free transfers in the portal, juco no longer counting, and mega conferences are problems.

 

[EVOfrogMR]

Great. We can be done exploiting these poor athletes by just destroying college sports all together.

It’s like the old Marvin the Martian cartoons where he plans to solve the Earth’s energy crisis by blowing it up.

 

[JetFlyingFrog]

The same year as TCU-Wisconsin, Cam Newton was winning a national championship for a team that paid him quite well. Deservedly so.

The kids always should have been getting paid. This is righting a wrong so I'm glad to see that. The sport will adjust and move on, same as always.

so was jerry hughes and casey. the difference was peanuts compared with cam.

 

[NovaScotiaFrog]

Not everyone agrees with this, especially many former college athletes, this one included. Perhaps we need to define “getting paid,” though. I can understand a minor salary of max 50k-75k or so to allow student athletes to live comfortably. But we have 18 year olds making seven figures now. That’s a professional athlete, not a student athlete.

It’s out of control and the game we loved is becoming something entirely different, and not for the better.

College football was great BECAUSE they weren’t professional athletes. Making it a minor league sport will make it exactly that.

It's been a professional sport for 50 years, the kids were the only ones who didn't get to benefit from it. That's why the settlement was necessary in the first place

I have a hard time seeing an argument that amateurism is crucial to the game when coaches are getting $5 million a year, the admins were building billion dollar stadiums and signing billion dollar television contracts, slapping logos on everything from T-shirts to video games, etc. etc. to sell. That's a pro endeavor, and the players should be compensated for it same as everyone else.

 

[tetonfrog]

I have no problem with players getting paid. They deserve their slice of the pie. My top two issues are the two super conferences rigging the playoffs & the endless cycles of transfers. It is challenging to learn all the new players in every sport every season. It takes a lot of the fun out of it.