Comments on: Former Nebraska QB Sam Keller Suing EA Sports and the NCAA http://www.thedevshack.com/former-nebraska-qb-sam-keller-suing-ea-sports-and-the-ncaa/ Technology and Programming Blog Fri, 16 Dec 2011 16:12:12 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.3 By: Brian Rinaldi http://www.thedevshack.com/former-nebraska-qb-sam-keller-suing-ea-sports-and-the-ncaa/#comment-127 Brian Rinaldi Fri, 08 May 2009 12:48:26 +0000 http://www.thedevshack.com/?p=199#comment-127 Once upon a time, this was about getting a damn education. Sadly, when there is this much money to be made, everyone wants a piece of it. This includes universities even skirting the rules to bring in players they shouldn't - who should never even qualify for entrance into the school and who bypass all the rules at the school because of their special status. And the schools that don't do that? Well they have a much harder time competing. I think the players get plenty of benefits already and should stop their bitching. And people should stop egging them on by making them think they should get paid to play college sports. Let's not compound the problems that the big business of college sports already causes by now adding salaries for player into the mix. That's just nuts imo. Once upon a time, this was about getting a damn education. Sadly, when there is this much money to be made, everyone wants a piece of it. This includes universities even skirting the rules to bring in players they shouldn’t – who should never even qualify for entrance into the school and who bypass all the rules at the school because of their special status. And the schools that don’t do that? Well they have a much harder time competing.

I think the players get plenty of benefits already and should stop their bitching. And people should stop egging them on by making them think they should get paid to play college sports. Let’s not compound the problems that the big business of college sports already causes by now adding salaries for player into the mix. That’s just nuts imo.

]]> By: andy matthews http://www.thedevshack.com/former-nebraska-qb-sam-keller-suing-ea-sports-and-the-ncaa/#comment-126 andy matthews Fri, 08 May 2009 11:32:22 +0000 http://www.thedevshack.com/?p=199#comment-126 I personally don't care about sports but Frank Deford (NPR commentator) had an excellent story about this sort of thing just the other day: Why Play Free For The NCAA When Europe Pays? http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=103571848 I personally don’t care about sports but Frank Deford (NPR commentator) had an excellent story about this sort of thing just the other day:

Why Play Free For The NCAA When Europe Pays?
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=103571848

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