{"id":43863,"date":"2018-01-09T16:45:13","date_gmt":"2018-01-09T22:45:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/?p=43863"},"modified":"2018-01-09T16:45:13","modified_gmt":"2018-01-09T22:45:13","slug":"former-ole-miss-wr-mike-wallace-shocked-by-bonus-paid-to-alabama-coach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/former-ole-miss-wr-mike-wallace-shocked-by-bonus-paid-to-alabama-coach\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Ole Miss WR Mike Wallace Shocked by Bonus Paid to Alabama Coach"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><strong>Mike Wallace<\/strong> took to <strong>Twitter<\/strong> to illustrate the large gap between what coaches are paid in bonuses, on top of their already large salaries, and what college players have to live on from their scholarship money.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">The <strong>Alabama<\/strong> coaches are due $1.27 million after defeating <strong>Georgia<\/strong> in the <strong>National Championship Game<\/strong>. Wallace stated that after paying for bills he had roughly $180 to feed himself on for the month.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">I\u2019m not saying players need to get paid 100k a year although I wouldn\u2019t be a opposed to it!! The scholarship check you get after you pay bills leaves you with about 180 dollars to make it through the the whole month!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">\u2014 Mike Wallace (@Wallace17_daKid) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Wallace17_daKid\/status\/950761652986810368?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 9, 2018<\/a><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Yet players get nothing!! I remember being in college literally wondering where my next meal was gonna come from.. Couldn\u2019t call home because I knw my mom didn\u2019t have it and didn\u2019t wanna put that burden on her knowing her child was hundred of miles away with nothing to eat smh <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/EIMlCvJhaZ\">https:\/\/t.co\/EIMlCvJhaZ<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">\u2014 Mike Wallace (@Wallace17_daKid) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Wallace17_daKid\/status\/950759255619010560?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 9, 2018<\/a><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">This sparked discussion on his Twitter page regarding how much money is made from players.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">NCAA makes money off of:<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"> &#8211; athletes:<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"> * names<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"> * memorabilia<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"> * signatures<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"> * likeness on games<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"> * performance<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"> &#8211; ticket sales<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"> &#8211; TV<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Athletes make money off of:<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"> &#8211; &#x1f914;&#x1f937;&#x1f3fb;&#x200d;&#x2642;&#xfe0f;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cBut but but they get degrees\u201d.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"> &#8211; not all of them<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cBut they get paid in the pros\u201d<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"> &#8211; most wont\/don\u2019t <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/tYWOPwu5al\">https:\/\/t.co\/tYWOPwu5al<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">\u2014 &#8230;. (@sportsjunkie410) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/sportsjunkie410\/status\/950781310687162368?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 9, 2018<\/a><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Some raised the point that $180 should be plenty to live off of if you&#8217;re basic needs are met. Though the criticism was rebutted by the amount of money involved in college sports.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Wallace17_daKid?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@Wallace17_daKid<\/a> Idc what athletic scholarships cover..the pie is too big. We are talking billions with a B. Schools building 50 million$ facilities with put put golf..20 million$ jumbotrons ..stop it. These schools swimming in cash <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/CD0ZOAI2v7\">https:\/\/t.co\/CD0ZOAI2v7<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">\u2014 Michael Campanaro (@MikeCamp_12) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MikeCamp_12\/status\/950776254525042688?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 9, 2018<\/a><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Criticism over the monetization of college athletes is not a new topic and likely won&#8217;t be restructured in the near future. It&#8217;s an ideal situation for the <strong>NCAA<\/strong>, but leaves the athletes to scrape by.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/TheLocalVoiceLigature-25web.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"25\" height=\"16\" class=\"size-full wp-image-14544 alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/TheLocalVoiceLigature-25web.jpg?resize=25%2C16\" alt=\"The Local Voice Ligature\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mike Wallace took to Twitter to illustrate the large gap between what coaches are paid in bonuses, on<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":253,"featured_media":43865,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[283,7861,11463,2883,11462,642,4333,4063,7067,4,3,753],"class_list":["post-43863","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-athletics","tag-alabama","tag-bonus","tag-college-athletes","tag-georgia","tag-mike-wallace","tag-ms","tag-national-championship","tag-ncaa","tag-ole-miss","tag-oxford","tag-the-local-voice","tag-tlv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/2018-01-09-wallace.jpg?fit=620%2C349&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43863","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/253"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43863"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43863\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43865"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43863"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43863"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43863"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}