College Athletic Stipends

[paultzman]

@CBTonNBC: Report: Texas to start paying their athletes a $10,000 stipendhttp://t.co/NJXvHtWL0x

 

[tom in salem]

all of them?

 

[austour]

The article says its going to cost $6 mill per year. That'd be 600 athletes. Certainly more than the hoops and football teams.

 

[Marillac]

@CBTonNBC: Report: Texas to start paying their athletes a $10,000 stipendhttp://t.co/NJXvHtWL0x

This is going to be very tough on the 100+ D-1 football schools that already are in the red.

 

[redken]

That's a lot of money for a college kid. And what about equity? $10,000 goes a lot further in cities like Austin, Waco, Ames, and Stillwater than it does in cities like New York, Boston, LA, and DC.

 

[tom in salem]

@darrenrovell Update: Texas is NOT proactively paying its players $10K/year. AD was asked what school would do IF NCAA lost O'Bannon


@darrenrovell Told Texas AD Steve Patterson was posed the HYPOTHETICAL of what they would do if they were required to pay athletes. Not actually doing it

 

[beast of the east]

That's a lot of money for a college kid. And what about equity? $10,000 goes a lot further in cities like Austin, Waco, Ames, and Stillwater than it does in cities like New York, Boston, LA, and DC.

I'm not sure about that, once you get past housing and the cost of electricity, some of the basics (food and clothing) are about the same. A drink may be a little less than Austin, but I think the drinking age is 21 there anyway. Twenty five years ago the SJU stipend was the same $300, so adjusted for inflation $800 per month isn't exorbitant.

 

[mjmaherjr]

@CBTonNBC: Report: Texas to start paying their athletes a $10,000 stipendhttp://t.co/NJXvHtWL0x

Wow lower oil prices really must be hurting texas for them to have to cut their payments to athletes