The only way you would be right about the difference between "work" and "extracurriculars" is if the school weren't making any money from the sports. There is no definition of work that doesn't fit what those players do. Their jobs are the same as professionals. If the university wants to make clear that it isn't a…

Not quite right on Fed goals. On employment, the Fed generally wants low unemployment, but it also doesn't want to go below the NAIRU, which is the estimate at which there's "too little" unemployment and wage pressure causes inflation. Right now that rate is above 5%.

Yes, driving a Tesla on long road trips where you refuse to plan ahead is not a tenable proposition until the supercharger network expands.

If the core mission is academics, and non-athlete students are not corrupted by being paid, then athletes should be able to be paid as well. If the school wants to send a message that athletics are secondary to academics, they can turn down the TV money. But turning athletics into a multi-million dollar profit…

I have literally never heard anyone describe the bench press as a move that doesn't load the pectorals, and I can't find anything at EliteFTS that agrees with you.

And yet non-athlete students are allowed to work while they attend. Weird. And if your logic is correct, schools should just ban all financial aid and double prices. That way you guarantee that only students who REALLY want to be there will go.

Being compensated doesn't preclude someone from being a bona fide student. Giving students a wage, a cut of the revenue they earn, or the ability to earn outside money (all of which are options) doesn't have anything to do with their status as students.

Wait, how can you look at cheerleaders being mistreated and underpaid (or any other job like coal miners living in company towns, sweatshop workers, etc.) as different? Your logic is the same either way: the business can do whatever it wants, since you're not forced to work for them. Honestly, I could even grant…

Sure, for some people there's more emphasis on triceps. The bench press will still strengthen your chest.

Well, hopefully that's a straw man, but this article was written for a reason.

You're going to need a citation on that, especially since sources like EliteFTS completely disagree with you on the bench. That whole "90 degree" thing is actually a great example of what the article is pointing out, namely that arbitrary form rules can hold you back.

What do you believe is the straw man position? I can't find anything more outlandish than what the NCAA and coaches like Dabo Swinney are actually arguing.

It's not a dick move, you're misreading. He didn't decide to retire a year ago, and then wait. He was thinking about it, and once he decided he let the team know.

It might. I'm not sure it's a bad thing for athletes to have worker's comp rights.

What's more self serving, pundits arguing that athletes shouldn't be exploited or coaches/ADs who are millionaires thanks to the unpaid labor of their workforce arguing that it would be wrong to pay said workforce?

Oh I hear you, I think it's just that since visibility is already a factor, it's only going to be a question of degree (with slight consolidation in those markets).

That only assumes that schools that didn't even consider Curry worth a scholarship would deem him worth a scholarship AND a check. That's the point of the post; the big time schools had a shot at Curry, but only Davidson, VCU, and Winthrop were interested in him.

It's an interesting idea, but I think the current landscape already includes that consideration. Visibility is certainly something that seems to be a selling point for coaches on the recruiting trail.

Wait, you think Simmons was the first person to come up with a the concept of a mailbag article?

If the NBA is really worried about smoothing, they can just increase the cap this year and decrease the 2016 cap by the same amount. It's telling that their solution was just to suppress the cap.