Rights in college athletics

Aug 15, 2013, 1:12 PM

I figure ill get mixed emotions on this.

I, for one, am all for fair and equal competition in college athletics. I agree that it is completely necessary to have rules. I also agree that when you play college ball, you go in knowing the rules and that they are supposed to be the same for everyone. So you are ultimately responsible for your actions. I think taking bribes or favors to gain the favor of a commitment is also wrong. It hurts the have nots, the smaller schools and richer schools would certainly gain a huge advantage. So yes, rules are good.

However, in my opinion, the right of a person to sign his or her own name and make a profit should be completely acceptable. There is no way I'd ever allow anyone to tell me what I could do with my own name. And I think kids being punished for doing so and selling it have a solid legal case and should defend that right. And I do think EA sports should be dishing out millions to athletes who they have IMO profited from illegally.

I'm against paying college players unless that pay is reasonable and can be done in a way which maintains some semblence of fairness, but if they want to sell their own name, that is their right.

Sometimes the system is set up with such greed intended that players are not afforded the fairness they are entitled. I hope the rights of each of these young people is upheld in a court of law in a matter that's more reasonable. Right now it's a broken system indeed.

Just my two cents.

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Hmmmmm. "There is no way I'd ever allow anyone to tell me what I could do with my own name."

If someone offers you a contract for x million dollars, you might agree to the terms of the contract, even if those terms include NOT using your own name for side ventures. A great many contracts include that sort of provision.

When athletes agree to play NCAA ball they get a great opportunity for exposure, with plenty of prime time possibilities for honing their craft, creating fans, letting the world know who and what they are about and so setting themselves up for a big payday. When they sign on for the deal, they do so agreeing to the terms of the contract, which include many onerous restrictions. The athletes sign that deal because they need the platform to advance their careers.

Clowney will be a rich rich man in less than a year because South Carolina put him on their field, in their uniform, fed him, trained him, took him to the bowl game and gave him a chance to make that million dollar hit. Clowney got opportunity in exchange for agreeing not to work an outside job, not to take money not available to regular students, not to sign contracts for future payment AND not to sell his autograph until he was finished playing 'amateur' ball for USC.

Based on how this seems to be working out for Clowney, I think the deal he struck was a very good one, even if it prohibeted him from selling his name, a name made famous at USC, until after this playing days were done.

Well, at least that was supposed to be the deal.

Harley

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