So let's see if we understand this correctly: six months after Johnny Manziel supposedly got (depending on whether you believe the NCAA's story or not) either $7500 or a "five-figure flat fee" to sign a couple hundred helmets for an autograph broker who turned them around for larger dollars.
Scandalous, right? After all, this kid has a free scholarship to an elite post-secondary educational institution, and instead of playing for pure honor and fresh air and sunshine, per the NCAA's bylaws, he's got the stones to accept a handful of cash from some swag merchant. Meanwhile, the schools shovel in a metric fuckton of cashola on these kids' backs. Per the link, Texas A&M (Manziel's school) had about $92.5M in revenue in 2008, well before Manziel even got there.
NCAA's own revenue links from just last year shows the revenue breakdown. Not a goddamned dime goes to the players, and if Manziel or anyone else blows their knee out in their next game, you think the NCAA is going to help them out? Nope, they make plenty of money screwing these kids over for every little thing they do, to ensure that all the money goes to broadcasting and selling jerseys.
Put it this way: who do you think makes more money from selling Johnny Manziel jerseys, the NCAA, Texas A&M, or Manziel himself? Which of those entities do you think should make the most money from selling those items? Do you think it's at all fair that Manziel makes somewhere between diddly and squat from the pimping of his own name, while others rake in millions? Well, if your answers were along the lines of "Manziel; Manziel; no," then you are at serious odds with the NCAA, sporto.
Someone should do a cost-benefit analysis of pushing a student-athlete through some bullshit communications degree, versus the revenue accrued from selling that kid's swag and pocketing every dime of profit. Every player is a crapshoot, but I promise you that in the aggregate, the schools and the NCAA make money, and the athlete, whether his body withstands the punishment or not, makes dick.
Scandalous, right? After all, this kid has a free scholarship to an elite post-secondary educational institution, and instead of playing for pure honor and fresh air and sunshine, per the NCAA's bylaws, he's got the stones to accept a handful of cash from some swag merchant. Meanwhile, the schools shovel in a metric fuckton of cashola on these kids' backs. Per the link, Texas A&M (Manziel's school) had about $92.5M in revenue in 2008, well before Manziel even got there.
NCAA's own revenue links from just last year shows the revenue breakdown. Not a goddamned dime goes to the players, and if Manziel or anyone else blows their knee out in their next game, you think the NCAA is going to help them out? Nope, they make plenty of money screwing these kids over for every little thing they do, to ensure that all the money goes to broadcasting and selling jerseys.
Put it this way: who do you think makes more money from selling Johnny Manziel jerseys, the NCAA, Texas A&M, or Manziel himself? Which of those entities do you think should make the most money from selling those items? Do you think it's at all fair that Manziel makes somewhere between diddly and squat from the pimping of his own name, while others rake in millions? Well, if your answers were along the lines of "Manziel; Manziel; no," then you are at serious odds with the NCAA, sporto.
Someone should do a cost-benefit analysis of pushing a student-athlete through some bullshit communications degree, versus the revenue accrued from selling that kid's swag and pocketing every dime of profit. Every player is a crapshoot, but I promise you that in the aggregate, the schools and the NCAA make money, and the athlete, whether his body withstands the punishment or not, makes dick.
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