The story of the day is the obvious fallout from the Adidas scandal on college basketball. There has been speculation that what goes on in basketball also would presumably go on in football. I am skeptical because football does not involve the shoe market which basketball would entail. Do you believe that the scandal will ultimately turn to Adidas and its college football connections?
Adidas & Football
- Thread starter RChrisReade
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I hope they crash this whole damn system and allow schools to pay athletes. These shoe companies are paying them anyway giving some programs advantages.
We live in a capitalistic world where most people say if someone is worth it, pay them, but not when it comes to my athletes. It's BS.
We live in a capitalistic world where most people say if someone is worth it, pay them, but not when it comes to my athletes. It's BS.
No. Schools have been flocking away from Adidas to either Nike or UA, in recent years. I see this play by Adidas as a way to maintain market share against competition.
As previously stated above, Basketball and shoes are tied together; (no pun intended). Afaik, NCAAFB doesn't have a strong connection to an item like BB does; if you look past jerseys.
Final comment... I really hate to state it, but why would Adidas put money into the NU BB program anyway? I highly doubt NU has connections to this scandal.
I go back and forth with this. The biggest problem with paying college athletes is that it would likely become a bidding war and the meaning of the college game would lose its luster.
Nailed it on the head. College football's richest Aka USC, Texas etc. would have all the funds and plethora of wealthy alums to outbid other schools for recruits, think NFL without the salary cap. Would destroy the college game.