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WASHINGTON — Kylia Carter, the mother of recent Duke basketball player Wendell Carter, unloaded on the NCAA and the current system for big-time college sports on Monday, equating the economic arrangement for athletes to those of slavery and the prison system.
Carter made her remarks during a stunning opening statement as a panelist during a meeting of the Knight Commission on Intercollegiate Athletics in Washington, D.C. After waiting through remarks of five other speakers, including St. Joseph’s men’s basketball coach Phil Martelli and ESPN basketball analyst Jay Bilas, Carter leaned into a microphone and launched into an emotional, personal indictment of system in which she referenced her own recruitment and career as player at the University of Mississippi.
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Wow, what an absurd statement to make. Your son who went to one of the most expensive and prestigious schools in America for $0 didn't received any legal compensation?
Since when were scholarships not beneficial to student-athletes? It's not the schools fault that one and done players forgo their remaining years of college to chase the money.
Free education is more than fair and compensates the athletes for their contribution to the sports team.
They are most certainly being compensated. At least a large number of them are. A free ride is worth a lot of money. This is one thing I can not get behind.
“The problem that I see is not with the student-athletes, it’s not with the coaches or the institutions of higher learning but it’s with a system … where the laborers are the only people that are not being compensated for the work..."
I actually agree with the part of her statement bolded. football and basketball player athletes get little compensation compared to the millions and millions they generate for their university and their coaches. I have always thought college football and basketball athletes at very profitable athletic schools should receive a salary for playing ball.
“The problem that I see is not with the student-athletes, it’s not with the coaches or the institutions of higher learning but it’s with a system … where the laborers are the only people that are not being compensated for the work..."
I actually agree with the part of her statement bolded. football and basketball player athletes get little compensation compared to the millions and millions they generate for their university and their coaches. I have always thought college football and basketball athletes should receive a salary for playing ball.
Where do you draw the line? Those in the sciences do research that leads to profits. Those in the arts bring in dollars. Perhaps not as much as sports but still.........do we really pay people to go to college?
“The problem that I see is not with the student-athletes, it’s not with the coaches or the institutions of higher learning but it’s with a system … where the laborers are the only people that are not being compensated for the work..."
I actually agree with the part of her statement bolded. football and basketball player athletes get little compensation compared to the millions and millions they generate for their university and their coaches. I have always thought college football and basketball athletes should receive a salary for playing ball.
How do you decide who gets paid what amount? The bench warmer players want to get paid too.
How do smaller schools, who don't generate much money, pay their athletes? Players from those schools want to get paid too.
Your compensation and salary is free education to a school you would've otherwise never been accepted to. Not to mention the alumni and network of important people you'll be associated with by attending some of these schools, even for just a year.
The founder of the NCAA system, Walter Byers, compared the NCAA to slavery too:
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Usually the inventor knows his creation best. Walter Byers, who became the first executive director of the NCAA in 1951, turned a toothless organization into one that controls college sports. He grew disenchanted with his creation, however, writing in his 1995 memoir that the NCAA is “firmly committed to the neoplantation belief that the enormous proceeds from games belong to the overseers (the administrators) and supervisors (coaches). The plantation workers performing in the arena may receive only those benefits authorized by the overseers.”
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