Time to grow up LeBron....
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Kev, good post, however, I dont thin there is too much importance placed on pro sports as there is on the athletes themselves. Teaching kids to be competetive at whatever level is a good thing. I wouldnt be mad at Nike, thats capatilism at its best. Hopefully college athletes will never be paid to play, legaly anyways.....When David Robinson left the NBA he took a lot of class with him!Polk Audio Surround Bar 360
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True...there should be more focus on the team aspect of sports, vs. the individual athletes, huge contracts, and endorsement deals. I guess my biggest problem w/ Nike is they outsource the mfg. of the actual shoes, and a large % of the shoe cost goes to marketing and endorsements from the athletes. Then all these kids who cannot afford the shoes get all the advertising and endorsements via TV and radio and think they must have the shoes to 'be like Mike...' etc. I know this is an old arguement, but I still don't see Nike doing too much in the way of promoting education and staying in school. So the message, on a basic level, is buy our shoes, play sports, and maybe someday you'll get rich in the pros, when the chances of this are slim to none.
One more note on the team aspect...I was never a huge NE Patriots fan, but really admire how they build their teams and their philosophy of no one player is bigger then the team. They refuse to give one player an outrageous contract, and complainers who try to put themselves above the team concept get cut or traded. On the flipside, they will take chance on a Corey Dillon type player who has been labelled a "complainer" on another team, bring them in to fill a role, not pay them a ton of money from the start and make them prove themselves within the team concept. Contrast this philosophy with a team like the Cowboys, and you can see which philosophy has been more success in this day and age. I am looking fwd. to see if my Bears can handle Jay Cutler the way the Patriots have handled their free agent acquisistions.
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For what it's worth, only about .000001 percent (you get the point) of kids end up being professional athletes. There is way too much importance place on professional sports as a whole, and the sooner kids learn this, the better off they will be. This is why I despise Nike and the way they market to kids and parents, and this is why I find the idea of PAYING college athletes completing ridiculous...it's not good enough many "student-athletes" get scholarships to play sports, while the majority of people have to scrap to pay tuition for their kids. Just my .02
Great post shack.....
The other side of the argument for paying college athletes is something like this: The universities are making obscene amounts of money, and the NCAA is making obscene amounts of money, on the backs of these kids, most of whom will never make it as professional athletes. Shouldn't these kids get a piece of the revenue that they are producing? That is the American way!
BTW, some will argue that the kids get compensated by way of a free education. If all of the kids were true "student-athletes," and the schools were forced to only recruit "student" athletes, then maybe this argument would hold water. However, too many of these kids are merely used by the schools. Too many programs are just about revenue production, and not about what is in the best interest of the kids.
