It would be interesting if schools treated them like employees and then sent a W

Aug 2, 2020
9:31:05am

mkg Playmaker

W2 to each athlete with all of the benefits they receive reported as income. If they want to share revenue, then they become employees. Tax them like employees and see if they really feel they get nothing from the schools.

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I fail to see how NCAA is harming student athletes. If it weren’t for the NCAA

Romex

8/2/20 9:07am

When people never learn how to work for anything, nothing that they receive will

whirl

8/2/20 9:09am

This is where I get insensitive. Hey athletes, you get scholarships, playing

Don_Juan_El_Guapo

8/2/20 9:12am

This may be one of the more easily replaceable group of people out there.

Romex

8/2/20 9:16am

And most of them already have "jobs" where they sit on their yewt and get paid

Don_Juan_El_Guapo

8/2/20 9:19am

And the hard to replace kids aren't boycotting because

Great38

8/2/20 11:25am

It's not a good look when so many people have huge student loan debt and they

mwcoug

8/2/20 9:24am

It would be interesting if schools treated them like employees and then sent a W

mkg

8/2/20 9:31am

That's a good point. How are athlete stipends etc taxed?

ryebrye

8/2/20 9:32am

The scholarship portion isn’t. If the school pays for room and board it’s not.

mkg

8/2/20 9:36am

Make them punch a clock to earn their pay. That would be hilarious.

Romex

8/2/20 9:36am

I wonder what the value of tuition, room and board, medical care, and

Bullrider

8/2/20 10:24am

Problem is that many of the kids don't value the education they receive. They

LaserCoug

8/2/20 9:32am

Replace college athletics with comp teams

ExitStageLeft

8/2/20 9:52am

This was my suggestion a couple of weeks ago. As the father of a Pac 10 school

Tarbo

8/2/20 9:23am

Athletes are also paying a price.

SweetBabyG

8/2/20 9:47am

Athletes have to get good grades to graduate?

No touching

8/2/20 10:25am

This is absolutely true especially for smaller schools or Olympic sports.

mkg

8/2/20 10:42am

I don't think the NCAA is hurting them. I also don't think the players are wrong

shoganai

8/2/20 9:24am

They’re not the primary creators though

reddead

8/2/20 9:41am

Then the market will decide what they are worth, just like any other job.

SweetBabyG

8/2/20 9:51am

Yeah... no.

Mitty

8/2/20 10:30pm

The problem is one sport (Football) funds 95% of the other sports

compcoug

8/2/20 10:46am

Entitlement mentality is a very destructive thing.

Forzaitalia

8/2/20 12:19pm

It’s destroying our country at this very moment.

Gerald-DeGroot

8/2/20 11:42pm

Be more woke. Just because these athletes get a very expensive and very

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