How much do you think their education, training, food, medical care, housing, travel, connections for life etc are worth? $0? North of $100k/yr with some suggesting $250k/yr. Who is going to pay for all the other sports that don’t make money (all except football/men’s basketball at P5 schools). If they don’t want to go to school then there are other options already.
You guys keep regurgitating the same tropes over and over. Yes, the athletes get significant value. Cool. But why is there a need to cap their benefits?
Or if we all think underpaying people is the best thing to do, why not implement a rule that caps coaches’ compensation to $200k per year? Arguments in support of capping coaches’s salaries:
- They still get a ton of value from that salary.
- They’ll pay less taxes than if they got paid more.
- Schools can’t afford higher salaries.
- This is just amateur sports.
- Nobody is forcing the coaches to work there. If they don’t like it they can start coaching in their own league.
- I would take that deal in a heartbeat.
- Most people would be lucky to make $200k a year.
- If we pay them more, we’ll have to cut other sports.
- If we pay these coaches more, will we have to pay all coaches the same inflated salaries?