Given all the debate in the other thread about Qatar "buying" up some of the top talent in swimming, my question is how many people feel the USA should do the same?
Hoogie & Thorpe for our 800 free relay?
Schoeman & Hoogie for our 400 free?
How about on the W's side, a couple of th Aussies maybe?
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Originally posted by Frank Thompson
The NCAA forbids people to accept any payments beyond the scholarship so the swimmers are not paid which is a big difference.
Would I be quibbling to assert that giving someone a check to cover their tuition and living expenses is paying them even if you call it a scholarship? It doesn't seem to me that forbidding them to earn money from any other source changes the fact that you are paying them, nor does underpaying them.
So, even if you don't pay them very much, and you require that they spend the bulk of what you pay them on tuition at your school, aren't you still basically paying them to swim for your program instead of someone else's? Outside of the magnitude of the payments how is that fundamentally different from a country paying a swimmer to swim on that country's national team?
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Originally posted by Frank Thompson
The NCAA forbids people to accept any payments beyond the scholarship so the swimmers are not paid which is a big difference.
Would I be quibbling to assert that giving someone a check to cover their tuition and living expenses is paying them even if you call it a scholarship? It doesn't seem to me that forbidding them to earn money from any other source changes the fact that you are paying them, nor does underpaying them.
So, even if you don't pay them very much, and you require that they spend the bulk of what you pay them on tuition at your school, aren't you still basically paying them to swim for your program instead of someone else's? Outside of the magnitude of the payments how is that fundamentally different from a country paying a swimmer to swim on that country's national team?
