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^^^ Couldn’t possibly agree any more than I do with what tjfoose said 3 comments back!!! Right on target.
What I do not understand, and apparently never will, is when people look at situation like this one, they look at all of the different elements involved, they carefully weigh it all out in their minds, and then come up the fact that somewhere, somehow, something has gone awry and is now dreadfully wrong with the entire scheme of things. So then, after all of that reflection, what are those folk’s solution to this current plight, this money grubbing mess???
Right in the midst of all of their whining and complaining about how out of balance, biased, and how bad things have become in collegiate athletics in general, they sit here and say, “Hell yeah!!! Stay the course, just keep on going!!! Let’s not even attempt to right the very obvious wrongs. Let’s simply concede the fact that college athletics have become corrupt and have been whored out to the highest bidder. Let’s all agree, let’s even go so far as to condone those simple and very obvious facts of the matter, let’s stay the course and keep it going just like it is. Let’s throw even more money into the mix, let’s add more likely avenues so that further corruption can really take hold!!! We’ll even let it sink even further down into the high school ranks and beyond. And hey, that’s our solution for this entire situation. That oughta fix everything, right?”
I’m old, but whatever happened to the word, “broken”, being a precursor to the word, “fix?”
Just to add, if some of these kids still feel it’s unfair and really do not want their likenesses on EA Sports or anything of the sort, then simply allow them to opt out when they into enter into the college ranks. So, when EA Sports made up their future rosters, instead of that player being listed, they would have a player with all of the same athletic skills, maybe make him look gray in complexion, give him a generic name like John Doe, or Joe Smith, and simply play the game as always without bothering that kid. Wouldn’t that work??? Ha!!! I wonder how many of these truly unfortunate and overly humble kids would sign on the dotted line if that option were to be made available to them???
You can lawyer anything to death if you wish, but like the commercial says, “It’s not that complicated.”
When it all boils down, I can seriously do without seeing any of these likenesses in person, on EA Sports, ESPN, Fox Sports, ABC, CBS, and on and on…
I’m just wondering how long it will be before someone hires a lawyer to determine, from the date birth forward, how much a parent owes a child for breathing air, taking up space, and just basically being on the planet.
