Filed under: Media Watch, General CFB Insanity, Sports Business and Media
NEW YORK - It's interesting. You can put athletic administrators from across the country in the same building and they seem to disagree on just about every burning issue in intercollegiate athletics.Conference realignment. A football playoff versus the bowl system. The number of years of eligibility a student-athlete should be allowed. How to ensure student-athletes graduate. You name it, there is a rarely a consensus in the room.
But when the subject of paying intercollegiate student-athletes as coaches contracts become bigger and television revenues reach once unimaginable levels, there is finally an agreement: That is never going to happen.
In fact, NCAA president Mark Emmert (right) set the tone of this week's IMG Intercollegiate Athletics Forum when during his opening remarks he professed, "As long I am president of the NCAA, we will not pay student-athletes."
That seemed to be the sentiment of all of the administrators who attended the forum that did not include student-athletes.
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