Look, I think this is a straw man argument, though I recognize that many of you agree wholeheartedly with what Nebraska’s AD says here:
“And he put the pencil to it of the value, a one-year value, of let’s just say a football player or men’s basketball player at an average institution in major college athletics. And when you factored in the value of the tuition, the boarding room, all the fees, the transportation, the nutrition, the strength and conditioning/training room, on and on and on, and now the stipends that they get for the cost of attendance, he penciled it down to be $200,000 a year.
“And I would argue that that’s a pretty good salary for a 19-year-old kid. Now they do have alternatives, if they don’t want to go to class, and they don’t want to represent a university and get an education. It’s called the NBA, the NFL and major league baseball. So there are options. But I will go to my grave believing that in college athletics it needs to be amateurs to be there for the right reasons, and to value that education. Many places, out-of-state tuition for a year can be up to $80,000 to $100,000 just by itself, and sometimes much more.”
But I’ve got a question for you and Moos. If the NCAA’s policy on amateurism is voided by the courts and player compensation is left to the conferences to determine, what do you think the odds are that Moos maintains that same stance?