Rookie Salaries

[gd]

Was talking about this with someone the other day. JaMarcus Russel had a great college career, yet hasn't done anything in the pros. Yet, he still makes more money that many of the veterans in the league.

This isn't just about Russel, or even football specifcally, it's about rookie salaries in sports. Guys coming right out of college get paid millions upon millions of dollars and huge guaranteed signing bonuses without having done anything professionally.

Every year the salaries get higher and higher because you have to make more than the last guy who was picked in the same spot. I understand that these guys have shown that they are talented and deserve to get paid, but I don't think they should be getting the amounts of money that they are.

Obviously, this isn't going to change unless the individual leagues do something to regulate rookie salaries, something that likely wouldn't be very popular with players unions.

So, what do you think about rookie salaries in sports? Should something be done to change them, or are they fine as they are?

 

[People's Champ]

You hear it all the time, with the economy the way it is, owners don't want to be paying outrageous salaries for players who have yet to prove anything. This has been a huge problem in the NFL. As much as the unions won't want to do it the owners are going to push for it. And its the actual contracts that are the problems. Its the guaranteed money these players get. Russell for instance got 30 million guaranteed. That simply is too much money for a rookie to receive without having played a single snap. And baseball as well with that Nationals pitcher whose name I can't spell so I won't even try. He got a record signing bonus and all that good stuff. So I think the way the economy went down and seen fan attendence and sales go down has changed the owners view for good. It won't be easy but I see this being a big issue very soon.