As part of the Elite 8 coverage today CBS interviewed Mark Emmert, head of the NCAA and discussed paying these athletes in college. It was asked what is wrong with someone like Zion also doing a pizza commercial and capitalizing on his success.
The argument is that the NCAA is making billions so why not share it?
I view that argument like employees at Amazon saying they deserve full time daycare programs for their kids because Amazon makes billions in profits and they deserve more.
Here is the answer as simple as it can be......if you don’t like it, don’t play for the NCAA. Go to Europe out of high school and get a paycheck until the NBA allows you to play. If you don’t think the room and board and and scholly is not enough exercise your right to not play in college. The argument that the NCAA is so rich because players like Zion make them millions and it needs to be shared is easily countered by the kid at South Alabama riding the bench that never sees the floor but still gets a full ride and once he earns his degree his career earning potential is higher because he got his degree and has zero student loans.....
Can we not keep college and professional separate? You have Charles Barkley saying the NCAA is cheating these kids. Really? They didn’t know they were just getting a free ride and no profit sharing when they accepted their scholarship?
"There was a great deal of character on that field today. They are for real, no doubt about it. This was no fluke." - Coach Paul "Bear" Bryant