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Racial prejudice is driving opposition to paying college athletes. Here’s the evidence.
The Washington Post ^ | December 30, 2015 | Kevin Wallsten, Tatishe M. Nteta and Lauren A. McCarthy

Posted on 01/02/2016 1:31:43 AM PST by MinorityRepublican

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To: GilesB

You’re such a racist. A big meanie dog whistle. It’s people like you who keep Oprah from making three billion dollars instead of only two.


21 posted on 01/02/2016 3:38:01 AM PST by heye2monn
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To: MinorityRepublican

Free the slaves!

No More People of Color on the College Sports Team plantation!

Let the NBA & NFL find & pay for their own players.


22 posted on 01/02/2016 3:39:04 AM PST by BwanaNdege
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To: abb

Indeed, let’s hear them bitch and moan to Kingdom Come when these poor deprived athletes have the academic standards raised to normal levels

And let’s see how many of the complainers ever get the choice of accepting a scholarship and benefits worth tens of thousands, if not hundreds of thousands

Since many of them were “affirmative action’d” admitted, then maybe we can end all the unfairness by raising standards and having true ‘student athletes

Think they authors would be happy then? No more “expolitation’ no more hard work to get an education


23 posted on 01/02/2016 3:47:52 AM PST by A_Former_Democrat (If you're "offended" by "Merry Christmas" then you have much bigger issues)
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To: Caipirabob

THAT is the 64 trillion dollar question.
If college & universities are allowed/required to pay athletes, I can almost guar-n-damn-tee they will raise tuition and other fees to “cover the cost”.


24 posted on 01/02/2016 3:49:32 AM PST by Tupelo (Honest men go to Washington, but honest men do not stay in Washington.)
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To: xrmusn
I recall the fits the NCAA types had when Moses signed.

I thought, "Finally, someone smart. He can afford any school he can get into if he wants to, if he retires or gets injured."

That wouldn't work if a student athlete gets injured. He's done. Stick a fork in him. No pro career, and maybe no degree, either.

Now that former athlete would be just another undergrad trying to make ends meet.

Maybe he's the one who should get compensation.

See, I'm not really a sports fan. I wasn't then, and I'm not now. Not since the Superbowl was numbered in only Vs and/or Is

When I look at the relative fortunes spent on athletic programs when I was at University versus the amount we scratched together to keep a seismograph running, to have enough microscopes and other equipment, or fuel for field work--and we were just one science department--the amount spent on academic pursuits was a pittance by comparison to that spent on sports.

I have to ask, what is a university for?

Training camp for sports teams?

Small wonder STEM is hurting.

25 posted on 01/02/2016 3:52:28 AM PST by Smokin' Joe (How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing.)
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To: Smokin' Joe

Rules are different now. At least for the NBA and NFL.

NBA you must be 19 y/o.
NFL you must be three years out of high school (21 y/o)


26 posted on 01/02/2016 3:53:59 AM PST by EEGator
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To: EEGator

Those rules changed to keep the NCAAs monopoly on just-out-of-High School players. No better deal in town, if they can’t play pro ball.


27 posted on 01/02/2016 3:57:17 AM PST by Smokin' Joe (How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing.)
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To: MinorityRepublican

This is like saying that “racial prejudice” against whites, Chinese, and Indians causes the pathetically low wages of graduate student instructors and contract faculty.

Simple economics is sufficient to explain both situations: the universities want to take in as much money as possible and pay out as little as possible.


28 posted on 01/02/2016 3:57:25 AM PST by Tax-chick (Maximizing my cultural appropriation.)
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To: Smokin' Joe

I agree completely. I’m just stating they can’t do it anymore.

If you can vote, go to jail forever, and go to war and die, you should be able to play ball. The idea that the leagues are concerned about their safety because they haven’t fully matured yet is BS. The colleges/NCAA get their money, and the pros get to see how they pan out. It is most certainly a racket.


29 posted on 01/02/2016 4:04:39 AM PST by EEGator
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To: MinorityRepublican

read a story today that viewership to this years Bowl games is down 36 percent.
5 and 6 win teams going to the nothing bowl?


30 posted on 01/02/2016 4:13:52 AM PST by Joe Boucher (Rubio is a liar, Jeb is worthless, Go Cruz ,Keep stirring the pot Donald.)
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To: cherry

That was my first thought as well. My second thought is this: There might be a point in there somewhere, given how worthless a liberal college education is these days.


31 posted on 01/02/2016 4:20:23 AM PST by Lee'sGhost ("Just look at the flowers, Lizzie. Just look at the flowers.")
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To: Joe Boucher

There were a lot of blowout scores such that a lot of casual viewers would have bailed out by halftime.


32 posted on 01/02/2016 4:29:34 AM PST by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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To: MinorityRepublican
The University gets the "benefit" for only 4 years, but the student gets the benefit of an education for a lifetime. At least, that's the way it used to work.

Now, schools are just feeders for the pro leagues and no one cares about education (at least as far as the Athletic Department is concerned).

33 posted on 01/02/2016 4:35:38 AM PST by cincinnati65
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To: MinorityRepublican

They are getting an college education free. How much is that worth? $20-50k per yr.?
If they want to be paid, pay them. Then charge them the going rate to go to college.
One other point. Many of them would never pass any scholastic entry requirement.
If you ask me they make out pretty well.


34 posted on 01/02/2016 4:36:10 AM PST by Vinnie
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To: abb

If big-time sports were banished from some of the
campuses then where would the students ever learn about
capitalism, the business schools?


35 posted on 01/02/2016 4:41:07 AM PST by Sivad (Juan Corona would vote for Democrats)
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To: cherry
the athletes need not play in college....they can go directly to some pro sports team

Only partly correct. Players do not have to go to college but they can no longer go directly to the NBA or NFL. The NBA requires players to be out of high school for a year before being eligible for the draft. For the NFL it is 3 years.

36 posted on 01/02/2016 4:53:59 AM PST by Straight Vermonter (It's not a "tragedy" it's an atrocity.)
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To: MinorityRepublican
When whites believe that a policy mainly helps blacks, their opinions on that policy are inevitably colored by their feelings towards blacks as a group.

The entire article hinges on that sentence for which the authors provide not one shred of evidence.

37 posted on 01/02/2016 4:57:17 AM PST by Straight Vermonter (It's not a "tragedy" it's an atrocity.)
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To: Smokin' Joe
Those rules changed to keep the NCAAs monopoly on just-out-of-High School players.

In the case of the NBA that rule changed because teams signed so many high-school kids to big contracts that simply couldn't play. The NBA was protecting themselves from themselves.

38 posted on 01/02/2016 5:01:24 AM PST by Straight Vermonter (It's not a "tragedy" it's an atrocity.)
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To: abb
I really wonder if it would be a good thing if big-time sports were banished from campuses

It would. The incestuous relationship between money-making sports with rosters containing many unqualified "students" getting scholarships and the fake students only looking for a ride to multi-million dollar pro careers makes a mockery out of college education. Pay the athletes? Their scholarships are pay...it's to play sports, not to excel in the classroom. Baseball's minor league setup which keeps preparation for the pros out of college is a much better setup.

Perhaps football doesn't belong in colleges at all. Let the programs be run by the private sector in affiliation with the NFL.

39 posted on 01/02/2016 5:09:54 AM PST by grania
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To: abb
I really wonder if it would be a good thing if big-time sports were banished from campuses, and colleges could then get back into the business of educating young people instead?

Agreed. Move big-league athletics off-campus to a totally community-sponsored venue. Make the teams legally into what they are de facto right now - farm clubs.
40 posted on 01/02/2016 5:25:38 AM PST by Montana_Sam (Truth lives.)
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