College football and money

College football and money

Payments, bonuses and gifts



Oklahoma's Boone Pickens Stadium 

SI just recently did a story on college football and kickbacks to players. I could never get the point behind the whole “don’t except money” thing, I mean why not ,these college stadiums are packed for these games, coaches, while not making nearly as much as NFL coaches are paid well and vendors are eating so why not let a player get a couple dollars or gifts based on their performance?

The SI story shed some light on Oklahoma states NCAA rule breaking in order to obtain a national-title contender. Since 2002 the cowboys have had 10 successful seasons out of 11, and in 2011 ended No.3 in the country, the topmost final position in the programs 111-year chronicle.

The big selling point of college football is that it’s supposed to make men out of boys and enhance character and all that mombo jumbo, but the reality of it is that some of these players are on these campuses damn near starving and if someone came along and offered them $200 you would lose your money if you bet against them not taking it. It’s human nature, come on people. Some of the players, in 2007, were offered fake jobs during the renovation of the Boone Pickens stadium. Allegations have been made that players would show up for one day only to never return, while others would sign in then leave, smearing dirt on their shirt as to appear that they’ve been working….wow…

In 2012,the NCAA was stalemate about a $2000 expense allowance for scholarship athletes, but the group working on the proposal has yet to make ground…we’ll just have to wait for the day that scholarship athletes get compensated for sacrificing there body’s on the gridiron like there high paid NFL counterpart.