Kevin Ware screwed?

With the visibility of this kid's injury I would be shocked if the school would risk the negative publicity it would surely generate if they pulled his scholership(sp?). Half of the county feels very strongly for the kid and are rooting for him to make a full and speedy recovery. On top of that, Loiusville will get a lot of good "pr" from the feel good story of when he takes the court for the first time after this horrific injury.
 
I hope for his sake he had insurance. Seems like universities could provide insurance to cover projected finincial career losses determined by arbitration. They certaintly cover their own asses with endowments
 
They discussed this on All In last night.

http://tv.msnbc.com/2013/04/01/less...r-student-athletes-are-uncompensated-workers/

The NCAA is the most corrupt institution in all of sports. If a school or a coach does something wrong, the NCAA punishes the students while continuing to profit.


The term “student athlete,” as Taylor Branch points out in his seminal piece in The Atlantic, was “a formulation designed, as the sports economist Andrew Zimbalist has written, to help the NCAA in its ‘fight against workmen’s compensation insurance claims for injured football players’.”

If a player was a “student athlete,” he or she wasn’t an employee, and therefore, not qualified for workers’ comp if injured on the field. Which means that NCAA players are–NCAA propaganda notwithstanding–essentially the uncompensated employees of the NCAA cartel: players who literally risk their limbs on the court in order to produce a product that is immensely profitable.

How profitable? In 2010, the NCAA reached a 14-year, $10.8 billion deal with CBS Sports and Turner Broadcasting, covering just “March Madness.” That’s $770 million a year.

What does that mean for the uncompensated worker in this scenario, the basketball player? There just happens to be a March study that provides the number.
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This is jaw dropping. The NCAA essentially goes out of their way to make sure they don't have to eat any financial cost when something goes wrong in their workplace.
 
I think it's time for college athletes to get paid or at least the NCAA buck up the costs of insurance. I know a lot of schools offer insurance. Public universities in Maryland are required by law to provide health care for students who don't already have it.
 
Isn't the scholarship itself a form of payment? That's the way I see it. As far as insurance goes, what makes anyone here think that collage players aren't insured through the program? Even High Schools have their students covered that are playing in sports. There's nothing in either of those two articles posted other than pure speculation. Both questioning the length of his scholarship without knowing the facts. Poor reporting IMO. They simply wanted to get a story published.
 
AndyMarquisLive said:
Public universities in Maryland are required by law to provide health care for students who don't already have it.
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You don't believe that they are doing this free of charge, do you? I don't think I'd be going very far out on a limb when saying that they're paying for it through their tuition. They are not going to give anything away.
 
What happens if a injury is life altering? Say a 20 year old has to live out his life in a wheelchair? Would you be alright with that if it was you or your kid? When they pay the hospital bill, don't forget there's usually a deducable on these school policies, then they say seeya as they rake in millions?
 
TexasRaceLady said:
I heard today that ALL medical bills will be paid. The Ware family will not be stuck with the bills.
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I didn't think Louisville would screw Ware given the publicity of his injury. Just the good PR pays for itself. But CBS News and MSNBC brought valid points to the forefront - what happens with student athletes when the media isn't watching like a hawk?
 
TexasRaceLady said:
I heard today that ALL medical bills will be paid. The Ware family will not be stuck with the bills.
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That's greast news. I don't see how they could avoid picking up the bills with all the publicity. Andy does bring up a valid point, what about those who don't make the national news or even the front page. I worked with a guy who had a 'trick' knee. He'd be walking along and then fall down. He played college football.
 
AndyMarquisLive said:
I didn't think Louisville would screw Ware given the publicity of his injury. Just the good PR pays for itself. But CBS News and MSNBC brought valid points to the forefront - what happens with student athletes when the media isn't watching like a hawk?
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Good points Andy. But, I'd imagine that what happens to them isn't too pretty. In basketball, I can see where it might be feasible to take care of athletes who have permanent type of injuries, but can you honestly see that in football? Most college football players have injuries that linger with them the rest of their lives, and many seriously restrict their future earnings. If they do that for one sport, they would legally have to do it for all of them. And nobody is opening up the pandora's box that doing that for football players would be. Forget what it would entail to do that with legitimate football injuries for a second. Can you imagine the type of fraudulent claims that would be filed by guys who were simply unable to play in the NFL and ill-equiped to do anything else?

I think that college football and basketball players should be paid something for the income that they generate for the schools. And any other sports that generate income for the school should be included. Penn State was fined $60 million in the wake of the sex abuse scandal. The NCAA said that that is what the school makes off of the football program each year. Schools like Ohio State and Texas make even more. Don't you think they should be getting a cut of that? I get that some are getting a free education, but that just simply doesn't do anything for them on a daily basis. But, I don't think that they owe them lifetime health care. There are certain inherant risks to playing college sports. Many times athletes assume these risks for the chance of hitting the NFL or NBA lotteries.
 
Off topic...but reminded me of the Ware injury. Buddy did this playing soccer last night.
 

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