Posted on 03/20/2018 8:08:43 AM PDT by rktman
“They [the NCAA] just got a contract from CBS (and TNT), $8.8 billion, and if you are making that, I think you have to share some revenue. You can’t expect people to continue to work for nothing on a false hope of, well this is about education, we are getting you an education, we will feed you. It sounds a little like 400 years ago, like slavery. Stay in your hut. Stay in that little house. We’ll give you some food. You do all of the work. All of it. And I am telling you that I will take care of you."
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What is disturbing is that Stoller and Glickman were the only two athletes on the US Olympic team that saw no action at all. Brundage, not Hitler, was responsible for that.
Fees just keep going up. It is worse for private schools.
Fees go up because there are plenty of foreign students willing to pay them.
Brundage was a real POS.
nobody is forced to play basketball..
besides tuition, our private university pays its college womens bb players $500 a month...I imagine the male players get much more.
Can you tell us who the”basketball great” is?
Was this person forced to play college hoops?
Someone with a partial brain could have had a scholarship to study, instead it is wasted on dumb fools trying out for the NBA.
the NCAA is totally corrupt....they've made college sports into a business...no question about that...
the NFL/NBA should form post HS leagues, so the guys that just want to play and go do it for a paycheck....
let college players play the games, like it should b...
If they were paid it would put the NBA out of business. If they were paid there would be no need to give them an education for free. How about they pay for school like others do and then give them a small wage to exist on campus.
Wanting to be in the NBA should mean a person has to invest something for the chance to win an NBA slot.
The collegiate sports system at the top is a scam. These kids get a free education, but the athletics departments own them.
At the lower levels there is less scholarship money...but there is more of a focus on academics and graduation.
The NCAA is bureaucratic and top heavy. Having had to work under their rules every postseason since 1999, I can tell you that there is little money to be made from those games.
The NBA should do what the soccer clubs do. Set up academies to develop talent and have them progress through the various youth leagues until they’re ready for the Big Club.
Totally agree. They won’t do it though!
More and more NBA players are products of European Basketball academies.
Many people don’t realize that big soccer organizations like FC Barcelona, also have a basketball team.
...the cotton picker was invented over a period of years beginning in the late 1920s by John Daniel Rust... wikipedia...
It's been almost a hundred years since cotton picking machines were invented. This basketball player must be very, very, very old... or he's doing a victim pity party... Imagine some Irishman saying how he had lived in Ireland and he knows what it's like to see everyone around you starving to death because of the failed potato crop. I mean come on, give us a break.
And more importantly the ease of getting federal loans allows colleges to keep raising tuition. There are about 900,000 foreign students in the US.
College hoops = Slavery? Then end it.
That is the why they were playing in the NIT...
But you still can’t go directly from HS to the D League. It was set up for players who are drafted, by an NBA team out of college, but are found to not cut the mustard, but who may have enough talent if given some time.
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