This Friday night -- we'll be hosting a party inside Notre Dame Stadium's Concourse -- for the very first time! And, we're bringing in some heaters, just in case it gets a little cold for our friends from USC.
Food Trucks (five of them)
Beer & Soda
Bands -- two of them will be performing
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The fun begins at 7 PM and goes to 10 PM!
100% of the ticket price goes to fund FINANCIAL AID for deserving Notre Dame students.
The bill that passed in California this week -- which would allow college athletes to hire agents and negotiate endorsement deals (beginning in 2023) -- has taken the paying of student-athletes to an all new level.
The challenge here is we're probably only talking about a very few college athletes who would benefit from this legislation...
Six years ago -- I proposed this idea -- a way the NCAA could direct some form of compensation to all scholarship student athletes. Here's what I posted on September 2, 2013:
It's simply this -- create a "pension program" for all NCAA Division I scholarship athletes. It would look something like this:
The NCAA would create a pension program that they and each of the
340 Division I member institutions would agree to contribute to -- out
of television and licensing revenues each year.
Eligibility: Every NCAA Division I "student-athlete" -- who signed a
National Letter of Intent out of high school with their original
school, was on this team's roster a minimum of four academic school
years and received a (four-year) college degree from that same
institution.
Pension Benefit Payments would be available to the qualified student-athlete once they reach the age of 65.
Here's what this proposed program does for college athletics:
It requires student-athletes to remain in college all four-years and earn a degree.
It puts some 'monetary value' in remaining at the school you signed your original National Letter of Intent with.
And, it treats "every scholarship student-athlete" the same -- no matter what school you played for or sport you played.
For those who feel the requirements are too severe -- the NCAA could
easily pay out a "lesser percentage" to those who transferred to another
school or, failed to play all four years or graduate...
