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Aug 2, 2020
10:19:01am

KingDave Plexmaster

If they'd asked for it a year ago, they may have had a shot

But state schools are going to get their state funding cut by 5-15%. There are significant costs to the schools with the coronavirus going on. There will be lost revenue from fewer fans at games. Schools are slashing their budgets and laying off faculty and staff.

When money is tight is NOT the time to be making demands.

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Why the vitriol for people trying to leverage the free market in their favor?

shoganai

8/2/20 9:54am

RE: Why the vitriol for people trying to leverage the free market in their

Romex

8/2/20 9:57am

So, I take it you're in the CB liberal minority?

shoganai

8/2/20 10:01am

Um, free markets actually demand individuals to honor their contracts. That's

SwampyCoug

8/2/20 1:31pm

From a legal standpoint, they are breaching the terms of the contract they

Y-Zag

8/2/20 10:01am

Then the schools can pull their scholarships.

shoganai

8/2/20 10:02am

Which is what people are saying they should do. #FreeMarket

JohnnyComeLately

8/2/20 10:03am

Sounds like we agree.

shoganai

8/2/20 10:05am

Except I don’t see the “vitriol” you mentioned. I saw a lot of mocking of a dumb idea though.

JohnnyComeLately

8/2/20 10:08am

You don’t think mocking is vitriol?

8/2/20 10:09am

No I don’t. It’s making fun of a dumb idea not personally attacking anyone.

JohnnyComeLately

8/2/20 10:10am

Oh, this is where the vitriol poll came from.

Benfica1

8/2/20 3:41pm

Exactly

Y-Zag

8/2/20 10:12am

It's not that simple at the P5 level.

Everyman

8/2/20 10:53am

Free market for thee but not for me.

valleus

8/2/20 10:01am

RE: Free market for thee but not for me.

Unibro

8/2/20 10:13am

Most only like capitalism when it benefits them. And only a minuscule minority

Uncle Bluto

8/2/20 10:02am

Capitalism benefits everyone.

No touching

8/2/20 1:45pm

Brisco's nemesis, Pete Hutter, had a firm grasp of the free market concept:

Brisco

8/2/20 10:06am

It's another form of peaceful protest that inconveniences us.

vagabonder

8/2/20 10:06am

Just because they can doesn't mean they should.

KingDave

8/2/20 10:06am

I actually suspect they'll get more demands met than not.

shoganai

8/2/20 10:09am

If they'd asked for it a year ago, they may have had a shot

KingDave

8/2/20 10:19am

I am fine with that, but take away everything else from them and tax them and

Romex

8/2/20 10:07am

These football players should be demanding that other college sports get the

Iman23

8/2/20 10:08am

I prefer this over rioting. Let them boycott. And let the PAC12 suffer.

Unibro

8/2/20 10:09am

We are always afraid of people rising above their station, we can't upset the

kolob32

8/2/20 10:19am

Please. It isn’t difficult to understand why fans of the sport aren’t loving thi

Unibro

8/2/20 10:37am

Apparently some of the athletes disagree with you. Thats ok, just as it is ok

kolob32

8/2/20 11:13am

Kill the hand that feeds you, I guess. Go for it. RIP PAC12.

Indy Coug

8/2/20 10:19am

Players wanting more than a scholarship is not going to stop with the Pac-12.

shoganai

8/2/20 10:23am

Unless it turns bad in the PAC and other places see that.

BYUtka

8/2/20 10:27am

Several PAC12 programs are already hemorrhaging money, so it’ll be interesting to see them take on this added expense.

Indy Coug

8/2/20 10:30am

Stanford just cut programs in its AD. Stanford. The timing is awful for this. They’ll get nothing so have to sit.

8/2/20 10:39am

I would argue they chose the right time.

shoganai

8/2/20 10:43am

Ummm this makes no rational sense

puntersarepeople

8/2/20 11:29am

I'm thinking about it from a leverage standpoint.

shoganai

8/2/20 11:37am

“I prefer to see this than seeing athletes protesting the national anthem.”

lilpenny

8/2/20 10:40am

As long as the schools have the right to say no and drop them from scholarship

compcoug

8/2/20 10:43am

I don't understand vitriol, but I do understand ridicule. These players are

califcougar

8/2/20 10:48am

It’s clearly a negotiating tactic. The players have lawyers writing the demands

BYUCLA

8/2/20 12:28pm

A 50/50 split isn't outrageous if it includes scholarships.

shoganai

8/2/20 12:32pm

of course it's outrageous. they want to completely ignore the billions of dollars invested in the product over

HarlemCoug

8/2/20 12:43pm

Not just profits; they want revenue, which would be an even larger piece of pie

reddead

8/2/20 12:57pm

Why do the NBA and NFL essentially do the same thing?

shoganai

8/2/20 1:16pm

Wrong

puntersarepeople

8/2/20 2:00pm

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trjohnson007

8/2/20 4:10pm

Ungrateful and entitled. Pull the scholies and give to the next up. It’s not

Big Daddy D

8/2/20 9:35pm

Yes it is, NFL players only get 48% and the revenue from the lowest earning NFL

califcougar

8/2/20 1:26pm

I think those facts basically support what the players are asking for.

shoganai

8/2/20 2:07pm

No they don't, schools are already operating at a loss and they are asking for

califcougar

8/2/20 2:39pm

I think your arguments basically add up to this...

shoganai

8/2/20 3:00pm

Their list read a lot like the demands made by CHOP/CHAZ....they made as many demand as they could....

Bonoman

8/2/20 12:42pm

This seems similar to the WNBA walk out.

Benfica1

8/2/20 3:43pm

I don't have much vitriol for them. I just laugh at their lack of basic economic

crack

8/2/20 10:51am

You assume all of them won't protest the anthem AND

SaintGeorgeYFan

8/2/20 11:58am

They aren't employees. What makes you think they are deserving

bigjohn

8/2/20 12:39pm

Why not let the players make their demands, and let the market decide?

shoganai

8/2/20 2:27pm

That's the problem: that's it's "politically appropriate"

Linkcoug

8/2/20 1:30pm

BLM and Marxism. Bad stuff.

8/2/20 3:54pm

This is not about the average D1 athlete

BYU'01

8/2/20 10:24pm

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