This is the title of my latest at the Huffington Post. The post leans on a wonderful column by Dan Wetzel at Yahoo! Sports and also the sports economics research of Robert Brown and R. Todd Jewell. And hopefully when you reach the end you can see why Cam should be asking his father some questions.
– DJ
Posted in: College Sports, Football Stories
Wages of Wins Journal 
Cheech Cohen
December 12, 2010
A truly great perspective on this spectacle.
tywill33
December 13, 2010
LOL! I agree with you completely! Did you see the “30 for 30” documentary on SMU football? First of all, I thought it was a funny juxtaposition with the Cam Newton Heisman presentation. Second, I was stunned to see SMU boosters actually had signed contracts with football players! And the reason the school received the “death penalty” is because the boosters felt obliged to continue payments as “obligations” they had to meet! I didn’t know whether to applaud their sense of contractual duty or laugh at their shameless flouting of the NCAA system.
reservoirgod
December 13, 2010
The question I have is this – do the rookie contracts of NFL QBs sufficiently overcompensate them enough to make up for the $500K they’re being exploited for?
And since both the NFL & NBA will be renegotiating their collective bargaining agreements and both of the prior agreements basically force players into the exploitative NCAA system, shouldn’t the player unions negotiate rookie wages that overpay players to make up for the money they lose if they can’t get the age restrictions lifted?