I was just reading through this article from the Athletic. I didn’t realize there are D1 schools like Penn who don’t provide athletic scholarships. Traditional amateurism in college athletics is a critical piece of modern education if you look to philosophers like Plato who point to the importance of sport.
What would it look like if schools who wish to stay out of the professional college athletics market participated in amateur sporting events? Similar to the Olympics of old. Expectations would be far less. Coaches would be professors who coach on the side. Sport would be for exercise, school spirit, and the progress of intellectual endeavors at the university level. (My mind goes to the Harvard-Yale game, or “The Game”)
Leaving the world of the professional college athletics to be governed much like professional sporting organizations. If schools wish to participate in this, there are expectations. Athletes are paid as employees. They sign contracts. If they get pissed and leave, there are buyouts.
All of this could be governed by a players union and leagues such as the SEC and Big 10.
Anyone else care to weigh in on this conversation?
theathletic.com
What would it look like if schools who wish to stay out of the professional college athletics market participated in amateur sporting events? Similar to the Olympics of old. Expectations would be far less. Coaches would be professors who coach on the side. Sport would be for exercise, school spirit, and the progress of intellectual endeavors at the university level. (My mind goes to the Harvard-Yale game, or “The Game”)
Leaving the world of the professional college athletics to be governed much like professional sporting organizations. If schools wish to participate in this, there are expectations. Athletes are paid as employees. They sign contracts. If they get pissed and leave, there are buyouts.
All of this could be governed by a players union and leagues such as the SEC and Big 10.
Anyone else care to weigh in on this conversation?
The case that could strike the next key blow to NCAA amateurism
Those who work around college sports often wonder where the next major domino to fall may come from. Here is one distinct possibility.
theathletic.com
