Naked you say? Video I ask.

People can’t even gather sarcasm from the written word. A transcript is not a novel, it doesn’t tell you anything about tone. An article would have been more useful for that, tho you’d still be reading another person’s perceptions and biases.

His job is to answer whatever questions he’s asked. Which is what he did. What he cares about isn’t in his contract.

But why are they all wearing bad wigs, is my question.

it does, vs boosters buying players today but then the school getting sanctioned if the NCAA finds out. Why in the world are you trying to present paying players as some kind of moral conundrum (calling it buying, as if the players aren’t benefiting).

Except they do have to spend money on food, clothes, their cars and gas, phone bills, utilities, anything fun they might want to do, and they can’t work during the season. Not every school gives 3 a day meal plans to athletes. If you live on campus, almost none do, and they usually only cover part of the rent (there’s…

I’m saying the rent money doesn’t exist unless they are enrolled in classed, which means they get nothing over summer break, even if they are on campus for summer workouts. That’s how scholarships work. It’s why you hear about players getting in trouble for accepting cash for rent and food, generally it’s because of…

Uh, what? The consequences in politics are obvious and well founded, why in the world would that same standard be applied to entertainment? They SHOULD literally be paid to play.

Except that my suggestion is to allow athletes to profit from their entertainment value. Ticket sales and booster donations should support the athletic department, but selling named jerseys and making video games using actual college players should include contracts giving players a cut of the profits. They should be…

If it’s anything like mine way back when, it doesn’t cover anything when school isn’t in session. So he has to pay his own rent and buy his own food over the summer. Plus throughout the year he’ll have the same non covered expenses as everyone else, food in the fridge, gas for the car, movies or whatever for fun, etc.…

It’s only considered sleazy because it’s against the rules right now, and leads to all kinds of sanctions. That’s a successful PR campaign, not a moral imperative. Who cares why someone pays them. Of course athletes should be able to negotiate the best deal between open competitors. All the big schools cultivate…

The answer to that is “ so what”. That’s exactly how players should be getting paid if you’re worried about title 9. The boosters would be more than happy t fund it.

Dude, 136 a week is broke as fuck.

That doesn’t even make any sense as a comparison. The way an athlete earns his money is by image. Any athlete in the world can sign a deal with some local car dealer to appear in commercials, unless you’re on on NCAA school.

Wants to try his hand at the draft first, I imagine, and his best chance of thru a rigged system. Doesn’t mean he has to respect it. Even getting paid to play in China is a better prospect after a season of hype in college.

That’s kind of part of the problem. The school would likely have to support it’s non revenue generating athletics from the general fund, or at least more so than it does currently. It’s kind of crazy to say we can’t play players in hundred million dollar sports because we gotta play table tennis.

Penn state football is not operating at a loss, those numbers are for the athletic department as a whole.

The argument is not that you need to pay all of them. That’s actually ridiculous. For the vast majority a scholarship is actually overpaying. The problem is that you have one or two sports generating massive revenue and subsidizing all the others. Why would someone on the rowing team get the same stipend as a…

I mean, no one bothers me whatever I do, so I just do wantever I want.

OK, but you are describing specific circumstances in which a moral judgement is worthwhile. Which is what I said, there are irresponsible ways do it it. Your original statement was simply that sleeping with semi-strangers was irresponsible, and I’m saying that blanket statement is not true, and I’m saying it fully…