If he wasn't Jewish he'd catch Hell for this shit.

I definitely think it is somehow less "taboo" for white people to openly complain about and even merely generally discuss racial issues now that there is a black President. I think I can remember speaking about this with Ivan 2 or more years ago.

It is a definite phenomenon.

However, much like the NFL - just scaled-up - we are copycats, and when we find a way to injure an opponent or counter-attack, we usually go to that well until it's dry. The slavery thing, the Hitler thing, those are all ways to wrest the tone of a conversation irretrievably to one side. Merely opposing that side becomes heinous then. I'd bet that a lot of times, there's almost a footrace for whom can extract such a meme-tool in a debate.

All you need to know about Danny is he could have gone hard with the slavery angle to Fitz and he didn't cuz HE'S a SPONSOR and though he puts on edgy like a shirt every day, his favorite outfit is the one with corporate nipple-enhancements.

Allow them to do ads! Then the true market is in play and the kids that companies want, will get paid. Nobody needs to determine it, other than the market. Of course, every football player at USC would have a dealer auto...but whats wrong with that?

Schools should also be allowed to provide a few thousand dollars a month to players for living expenses.

A few thousand dollars a month for living expenses? That is more than most of the populations makes.

A few thousand dollars a month for living expenses? That is more than most of the populations makes.

Ok but say 60 scholarship football players and 12 hoops guys is around $1.7M per year. And you know as soon as this pops Title IX will pop as well as the lesser sports athletes. Can of worms to be sure.

Ok but say 60 scholarship football players and 12 hoops guys is around $1.7M per year. And you know as soon as this pops Title IX will pop as well as the lesser sports athletes. Can of worms to be sure.

At worst, they'd have to throw some money at some girls and they'd pay the players less. Title IX does not guarantee equal funding. If it did, then we'd have $100 million dollar volleyball stadiums on campuses.

Coach Fitz: Chicago's Big Ten Slave Trader.

Right on the equal funding but for some reason I am certain when it comes to paying or granting money to athletes they will not be able to pass the argument that it only deserves to go to the revenue positive sports. The female equality angle is a gift to trial lawyers everywhere.

I doubt that. There's alot of repugnant comparisons to slavery. MITC and Tall Midget like to compare tax payers to slavery. It seems like collectively people have lost their perspective on that topic.

It's tough to troll because he doesn't even know what it means. Remember that discussion? Goff, Spiegel, or someone else brought up trolling, and Dan claims to have no clue what it was.

well that escalated quickly

The funny thing is that professional sports are much closer to an actual slave trade. They just get paid more.

Professional athletes have:
1) Very little choice as to where they end up. Prospective players get told where to go.
2) The deals they sign are not really negotiated by them. They are negotiated by players associations before they are a member of that association.
3) NFL Combine
4) Unbreakable contracts exist in the pro leagues. If a player wants to switch teams, they are told no. In college, they are told they may have to sit out a year.
5) Trades. You are literally selling a person.

Now, obviously the pay is better in the pro leagues, but I don't think being underpaid was the problem with slavery.

Oh, and once again, let me point out that playing NCAA sports is completely voluntary, there are thousands of people who would be willing to take the "bad deal" they get, and that for 99% of NCAA Division 1 football and basketball players they receive FAR more in benefits than they generate for the school. To put it in a way that Bernstein can understand, the value above replacement athlete in terms of money is so small that only a small group of players generate enough value to cover the cost of the scholarship and then numerous other benefits.

Oh, and by the way, most of the players get paid under the table too that are worth more than the cost of a scholarship.

Please identify a post where I have EVER made such a comparison. If you bother to search, you won't find one because such a thought has never occurred to me.

If you want to incite a confrontation, at least get your facts straight. Something tells me, though, that facts are irrelevant to you. What a deceitful little sack of crap you are.

Someone shit in your cheerios this morning Midget? I can't remember every single post I have read in the over five years I have been here and I thought I had heard you agree with MITC. MITC used to have it in his signature so I know I'm not wrong about that one. I'm sorry for mistakenly attributing that thought to you as well? Feel better now you delicate little flower you?