New Procedure Has Vital Support for Student-Athletes

Universities adopted amateur standards nearly 200 years ago to appeal to the wealthy parents of affluent students. Today, many 'student-athletes' come from families with modest or middle-class means. This shift makes NIL (Name, Image, and Likeness) deals a much-needed and welcome development in college football and basketball.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hello, everyone, this is Dan Riley for sports Talk on
Passionate World Internet Radio. A few weeks back, I explained
the ncuba's amateurism model came from the elitist athletic clubs
in Victorian England trying to keep the common man at

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arm's length. You may find it interesting I'm addressing this
again at the end of college football season, and you're
probably curious, on the other hand, why the NCUBA adopted
this model. It's all explained in Rick Tielander's disturbing nineteen

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eighty nine book The One hundred Yard Lie. Two hundred
years ago, college was much different in a man. Unless
you were the kid of say the eighteen hundred's answer

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to robber Craft or Bill Gates. You didn't go to college,
and your kids wouldn't go to college, and their kids
probably weren't either. It would have been far too expensive

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for working people. These schools back then were run by
clergy that frowned on temptations of the flesh, which for
some reason included sports. The problem is the people running
these schools found students made a lot of money running

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their own football programs behind the teacher's back, and the
schools wanted that cash, the schools adopted the amateurism model,
knowing for profit college sports teams had no place on campus,
and adopted an amateurism model the rich families of the

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students were familiar with. While things have improved with the NIL,
you probably do obviously understand that the amateurism model has
stayed for two hundred years because the schools don't want

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the athletic departments to lose their money. To truly understand
why it's a good thing the students' athletes can cash

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in on their talent. Now, it's that we're starting to
understand the situation among college athletes is much different than
it was two hundred years ago. A lot of these
people did not come from wealthy families. They came from

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middle and lower class, and it's frankly the ethical thing
to do to let them make money off their work.

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In the end, college sports has evolved a lot long
way from the days of only upper class people going
to college. That's why it's been so disturbing these universities

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have made so much money off the work of athletes,
and why it's so comforting that the NIL came along.
This is Dan Riley for Sports Talk. Thank you so
much for tuning in and so long