That's what Geezerville Times sportswriter, Corky Simpson, calls the new "full-on pro model now running college athletics" given the NCAA-House Settlement...
As we all know, as Corky points out, college athletes are now minor league ballplayers since they are getting paid to play whatever sport they are participating in at any given school...
This is especially true in football and basketball that are going to eat up the vast majority of funds ($20.5M) to be dispersed within each P-4 conference school that includes ASU...
According to Corky, college athletes will now be able "to have access to more wealth and tattoos than they know what to do with, or have room for"...
He goes on to say that they are now "independent contractors" who can jump from school to school without losing any eligibility and without having the slightest hint of loyalty to anything other than their next high paying contract with another school...
He wonders how long it will take for both fans and boosters to get tired of it and start staying away from attending games and giving money to finance this new pro model...
Texas Tech is one school that isn't worried about that happening as they have an estimated $35M in funds already pledged to taking advantage of this new college sports reality...
That's apparently in addition to the established $20.5 monetary cap placed on the NCAA revenue sharing funds available to each school per the settlement...
They are banking on the estimated $55M buying enough talent to elevate their athletic programs, as recently demonstrated by paying a softball pitcher a million bucks to pitch for them and she delivered big time by getting the Red Raiders to the WCWS, where they finished second nationally to Texas...
Texas has been to many softball world series while the Red Raiders have always sat on the sidelines but no more as money talks loudly in this new age of college athletics...
So, what's in store for our Sun Devils moving forward, that has a new athletic model of their own, where the ASU athletic dept is no longer a separate entity but a part of the university like any other college or institutional entity on campus...
This new model also stresses the academic or educational side of things and makes that a primary part of the student-athlete culture that president Crow wants to make sure is available to all student-athletes at the school, no matter what sport they may participate in...
So, will ASU be able to keep up with another Big-12 school like Texas Tech that apparently has money to burn when it comes to buying talent with which to compete for championships..??
In any event, it will be very interesting to see how this new model built on a JOCK/TOCK/RACY plays out within college athletics in the coming days, weeks, months and years...
Go Devils!!!
As we all know, as Corky points out, college athletes are now minor league ballplayers since they are getting paid to play whatever sport they are participating in at any given school...
This is especially true in football and basketball that are going to eat up the vast majority of funds ($20.5M) to be dispersed within each P-4 conference school that includes ASU...
According to Corky, college athletes will now be able "to have access to more wealth and tattoos than they know what to do with, or have room for"...
He goes on to say that they are now "independent contractors" who can jump from school to school without losing any eligibility and without having the slightest hint of loyalty to anything other than their next high paying contract with another school...
He wonders how long it will take for both fans and boosters to get tired of it and start staying away from attending games and giving money to finance this new pro model...
Texas Tech is one school that isn't worried about that happening as they have an estimated $35M in funds already pledged to taking advantage of this new college sports reality...
That's apparently in addition to the established $20.5 monetary cap placed on the NCAA revenue sharing funds available to each school per the settlement...
They are banking on the estimated $55M buying enough talent to elevate their athletic programs, as recently demonstrated by paying a softball pitcher a million bucks to pitch for them and she delivered big time by getting the Red Raiders to the WCWS, where they finished second nationally to Texas...
Texas has been to many softball world series while the Red Raiders have always sat on the sidelines but no more as money talks loudly in this new age of college athletics...
So, what's in store for our Sun Devils moving forward, that has a new athletic model of their own, where the ASU athletic dept is no longer a separate entity but a part of the university like any other college or institutional entity on campus...
This new model also stresses the academic or educational side of things and makes that a primary part of the student-athlete culture that president Crow wants to make sure is available to all student-athletes at the school, no matter what sport they may participate in...
So, will ASU be able to keep up with another Big-12 school like Texas Tech that apparently has money to burn when it comes to buying talent with which to compete for championships..??
In any event, it will be very interesting to see how this new model built on a JOCK/TOCK/RACY plays out within college athletics in the coming days, weeks, months and years...
Go Devils!!!
