tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7552601.post7832055974956358149..comments2023-09-30T12:23:26.809-04:00Comments on Coachean Life: In which we continue along those linesUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7552601.post-42716210216145762022017-11-01T15:59:35.426-04:002017-11-01T15:59:35.426-04:00OMG college athlete tes get SUCH a raw deal.. They...OMG college athlete tes get SUCH a raw deal.. They have virtually no rights to their own images as college athletes in perpetuity (which are sold to purveyors of merchandise and sports video game producers at will). They have remarkably little educational agency because they can't take anything that conflicts with their athletic schedules (so often no lab sciences). And if they experience a career-ending injury they almost universally lose their scholarships. <br /><br />College sports are such a scam and there is very little in place to protect the rights of the student athletes, who do all the work and have only very tenuous rights to an education as a result, and no additional remuneration. <br /><br />/college professor rant<br /><br />(Albeit at a D3!)Clairehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06034518947866238719noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7552601.post-89084279457498810182017-10-30T13:59:33.650-04:002017-10-30T13:59:33.650-04:00The second topic has indeed come up due to an atte...The second topic has indeed come up due to an attempt by Northwestern University (among others) athletes to unionize.The argument has been made (and is probably a truism, from where I sit, for football and men's basketball anyway) that athletes are really employees far more than students, and more so than most. In addition to salaries, there have been a good number of cases of athletes losing their scholarships upon injury, choice of physician, new coaches, choice of major or choice of place of residence. <br /><br /><br />The NCAA is unpopular enough this may come to the World of Entertainment. Seeing some modern-day ripped-from-the novels Chip Hilton as a later career Clarence Darrow might ring the Academy running however. IF someone takes the idea, remember me in your Oscar acceptence Speech. <br /><br />For this vote, , the NCAA has so much lucre filthy and otherwise that one might suggest that advocating the second resolution would be a case area for advocating the first resolution. So win-win. pjwexlernoreply@blogger.com