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QB/WR Terrelle Pryor ('10 Rose, '11 Sugar MVP)

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buckeyesin07;1936825; said:
I hope this was meant as a joke. If not, you'll see that I posted that several days ago, before a lot of new things happened. Your post, again if not meant in jest, is equivalent to, on Wednesday, quoting a post that someone made on Monday saying "Today is Monday," and asking them, "Still think this way?"
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No, I wasn't kidding at all. Why you thought, even before yesterday, that we were going to get off more easily than USC is beyond me. And yesterday's news didn't exactly "surprise" me. Did any of that really come as a shock to you at this point? I doubt it.
 
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TooTallMenardo;1937027; said:
http://www.buckeyeplanet.com/forum/...ge-players-paid-allowed-sell-their-stuff.html

[censored]in noob. :shake:
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The BCS/NCAA generates billions of dollars a year in revenue and where does all that money go? Back to the communities some of these players come from? I don't think so. Meanwhile, graduation rates are poor among the football schools in the NCAA:

http://www.usatoday.com/sports/college/2010-10-27-ncaa-graduation-rates-study_N.htm

The hypocrisy of the NCAA really [censored]es me off. Pryor and tOSU are going to get crucified over breaking rules that protect the greedy, money-grubbing institution that is the NCAA. The world will not be a better place if Pryor gets punished in some way.
 
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dr freeze;1937035; said:
The BCS/NCAA generates billions of dollars a year in revenue and where does all that money go? Back to the communities some of these players come from? I don't think so. Meanwhile, graduation rates are poor among the football schools in the NCAA:

http://www.usatoday.com/sports/college/2010-10-27-ncaa-graduation-rates-study_N.htm

The hypocrisy of the NCAA really [censored]es me off. Pryor and tOSU are going to get crucified over breaking rules that protect the greedy, money-grubbing institution that is the NCAA. The world will not be a better place if Pryor gets punished in some way.
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The problem is that in timing. The time to take on the BcS hypocrisy is not when our program's ass is on the line- we should have started pitching a fit long before that.

Now, it just seems like we're whining.
 
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MaliBuckeye;1937053; said:
The problem is that in timing. The time to take on the BcS hypocrisy is not when our program's ass is on the line- we should have started pitching a fit long before that.

Now, it just seems like we're whining.
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This.

By saying players should be getting paid at a time like this, on a site like this, makes us sound like whiny bitches.
 
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dr freeze;1937035; said:
The BCS/NCAA generates billions of dollars a year in revenue and where does all that money go? Back to the communities some of these players come from? I don't think so. Meanwhile, graduation rates are poor among the football schools in the NCAA:

http://www.usatoday.com/sports/college/2010-10-27-ncaa-graduation-rates-study_N.htm

The hypocrisy of the NCAA really [censored]es me off. Pryor and tOSU are going to get crucified over breaking rules that protect the greedy, money-grubbing institution that is the NCAA. The world will not be a better place if Pryor gets punished in some way.
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What a load of misrepresentation.

1. To the extent anyone is "enriched" by Big College Football, it's mostly the coaches. The rest of the money doesn't go to "the NCAA," which has an annual budget of about $750 million - which sounds like a lot until you realize there are nearly 1,300 member schools, so about $600,000 per school. NCAA Annual Budget

2. At Ohio State, after coaches and administrators are paid and debt service addressed, the remaining funds go primarily to scholarships in our many varsity sports.

The most important beneficiaries of Big College Football are athletes in non-revenue sports who gain the opportunity of pursuing a college degree. These student-athletes get the lion's share of all the "billions of dollars" you talk about. The NCAA greedy? What a joke.
 
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MaxBuck;1937060; said:
1. To the extent anyone is "enriched" by Big College Football, it's mostly the coaches. The rest of the money doesn't go to "the NCAA," which has an annual budget of about $750 million - which sounds like a lot until you realize there are nearly 1,300 member schools, so about $600,000 per school. NCAA Annual Budget
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I agree with you, but should point out that Miles Brand's salary while NCAA chair was $895,000. Salaries aren't mentioned in the link above, but the $895K is larger than the entirety of the budget you linked to.

So, either Emmert took a big pay-cut (from the close to $900K he was getting in total package at UW), or there's money missing in that document.

At any rate, you're spot on regarding the revenue issue- it's not (mostly) the NCAA, but the other "Friends". Check Jay Christensen's take on the Bowl dollars (also here)
 
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MaxBuck;1937061; said:
I did, and still do - largely because our administration didn't paste a big "Fuck the NCAA" sign in our waiting room like Mike Garrett did.
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I was in this camp and now somewhere in between. However, if it does come to factual light that the athletic department did know of Pryor's autographical relationship with this photog, then this whole process has been a bigger "fuck you" to the NCAA than ever could be imagined.
 
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dr freeze;1937022; said:
Maybe these things wouldn't happen if players got paid.

Just sayin'
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Whatever they're going to pay them if this somehow happened, it isn't going to compare to $20k. There will always be problems. Thinking the players getting paid would help is just ignoring the fact that there are always going to be people willing to pay more.
 
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