Tim Tebow Defends NCAA Model And Jay Bilas Responds

This could be a useful debate

Jay Bilas and Tom Tebow are having an interesting debate.

Well really, Bilas is responding to Tebow, who has come out firmly in favor of the traditionally NCAA model.

Tebow:

“I knew going to Florida, my dream school, where I wanted to go, the passion for it, and if I could support my team, support my college, support my university, that’s what it’s all about. But now we’re changing it from us, from we, from my university, from being an alumni where I care, which makes college football and college sports special, to then, okay, it’s not about us, it’s not about we, it’s just about me. And yes, I know we live in a selfish culture where it’s all about us, but we’re just adding and piling on to that where it changes what’s special about college football.

“That’s why people are more passionate about college sports than they are the NFL. That’s why the stadiums are bigger in college than they are in the NFL, because it’s about your team. It’s about your university. It’s about where my family wanted to go. It’s about where my grandfather had a dream of seeing Florida win an SEC championship, and you’re taking that away so that young kids can earn a dollar, and that’s just not where I feel like college football needs to go.”

Bilas is not impressed. He says that Tebow could work for free if he chose but that doesn’t mean that Bilas has to do so.

Essentially, and we could be wrong here because he’s never explicitly said this, Bilas seems to be making a Libertarian economic argument. Tebow obviously completely disagrees with his opinion.

Our opinion is that there is now so much money flowing through basketball that it’s illogical to expect people to not want their share and least of all people who have a major talent but who were born into families that aren't very well off. It’s kind of bizarre to praise teen app developers who make a ton of money and criticize teen athletes who want to do the same thing.