I would argue they chose the right time.

Aug 2, 2020
10:43:33am

shoganai Truly Addicted User

I've thought for a while that college sports is overdue for a financial reckoning, and choosing the moment when the schools need money the most is not the worst timing, IMO.

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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?

Charles Darwin

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.

Turnpike Lane

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.

AZcougLawyer

8/2/20 3:54pm

This is not about the average D1 athlete

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