Hot Topic - California Bill 206

[EWU98]

I know we have a lot of former athletes on here...so would love to hear your thoughts on this...
https://www.sfgate.com/collegesport...e-sports-law-endorsements-pac-12-14480260.php

 

[goeagles17]

Perhaps we end scholarships and instead players use the profits to pay for their college tuition?

 

[60s Savage]

Better just to engage seasonal semi-pro, commercially sponsored, non-students and temporary contract coaches. Athletes could play as many years as they were productive. (In 1991 when we played the prison team at Walla Walla their QB had been starting for 17 years.) Sponsored athletes would not be allowed to take classes thus avoiding jock disruption in classes and on campus. Seriously, student athletes should be insured for loss of potential career earnings due to sports injuries incurred during college, premium costs underwritten by the college.

 

[clawman1]

The choice should be when a kid gets out of high school these three options:
-If they want to go pro the NBA, NFL, or baseball leagues would enter them into their draft, no college.
-If they want college scholarship they should play under the current system.
-If they want to go to school and get paid under California law they could not receive financial help from the school or any others other than family. Pro teams could not pay for a kids school while he/she hones their skills in the collegiate system.
Currently the pros use colleges as their farm teams for screening and training.
The NCAA brought this on themselves by not addressing it a long time ago with some reason involved. Now the California nut jobs are imposing their ideology on all colleges.

 

[Obzerver]

Wonder if this could be the catalyst that spurs the Power Five to pull out of the NCAA?

 

[LDopaPDX]

It's sort of funny how California wrote the legislation, because their laws forbid the NCAA from discriminating against Cali schools because of this law. Yet California laws don't apply anywhere in the other 49 states. Therefore, if the NCAA wanted to play hard ass, they could just omit all California schools from participating in their conferences if they allow athletes to take money. While the NCAA would be turning their backs on a few key events- the Rose Bowl being the biggest, by far- this would hurt California far more than the NCAA.

I'd expect reasonable parties to intercede by offering some sort of hybrid legislation that meets somewhere in the middle. These legislators seem to think the schools are rolling in money because of their athletic programs, when in reality that only is the case for the 20 biggest programs in the country. Most schools, even in the Power 5, are struggling to make ends meet. If you took the foundations away, the charities that raise and hold money for the programs, most schools would be hopelessly in the red.