Posted on 01/02/2016 1:31:43 AM PST by MinorityRepublican
With the money made from college sports increasing every year, the way colleges treat their athletes has become controversial.
That’s because college sports is a tremendously lucrative business for everyone but the athletes. The National College Athletic Association (NCAA) will receive $7.3 billion from ESPN for the right to broadcast the seven games of the College Football Playoffs (CFP) between 2014 and 2026, and $11 billion from CBS and Turner Sports to broadcast “March Madness†over the next 14 years.
Individual colleges also make out well: The University of Kentucky’s men’s basketball team’s trip to the Final Four this year, for example, brought more than $8 million in revenue to the universities of the Southeastern Conference (SEC). Each of the “Big 5†conferences will make an estimated $50 million from the college football playoffs this year.
And none of this counts the money made from concessions, merchandise and licensing fees.
Meanwhile, most college athletes are “paid†with scholarships that cover only tuition, room, board, books and fees — although in 2015, the NCAA allowed Division I universities the option of increasing this to pay the full cost of attendance. After adding up the time spent on practice, training and games, college athletes often “work†the equivalent of full-time hours for the universities they play for.
Many pundits call that exploitation
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Astute question. Even better, since the other sports lose money, should we charge the athletes in other sports more just to play?
This is a slippery slope. Be careful what you wish for.
The same is true for high school teams. They are tax-supported farm teams!
I suspect that one of several factors for consolidating high schools ( since the 1960s) into huge factories was largely due to the push by parents for awarding winning football and basketball teams.
It doesn't belong in high school or middles school, either! These teams are nothing more than tax-supported farm teams as well.
Remove jock itch from the campi.....
More “gibsmedat” from the gibsmedats.
Just rescind the “no agent” rule.
Hows about we just eliminate college sports, that would be fair.
Don’t forget the specific, individual training in their selected sport, and the commensurate life growth that such instruction from highly successful coaches would yield. Imagine the cost of their training under a $200k coach in the private sector.
Excellent point. These dopes assume all colleges and universities make a ton of money off their athletes. Many don't. Many schools just manage to break even or not make much of a profit.
If the athletes want to be paid, let them go pro. There's nobody twisting their arms to make them go to college. I would be a very large pct. of them couldn't get in based on academic merit.
http://www.acenet.edu/news-room/Pages/Myth-College-Sports-Are-a-Cash-Cow2.aspx
...The Chronicle of Higher Education recently estimated that college athletics is a $10-billion marketplace. What sets UGA athletics apart is that it can pay for its expenses without turning to the university for help.
Only seven other athletics programs at public universities broke even or had net operating income on athletics each year from 2005-2009, according to data provided by USA Today to the Knight Commission on Intercollegiate Athletics...
Not racism, just greed.
I know my Florida teams got spanked
I believe they get to wash the cars of deep-pocket alums for $10,000 a pop.
Make college sports a club activity, not paid for by the school. Let the clubs pay for tuition, living expenses etc.No affiliation other than name of team. Flunk out of school, no playing in sports.
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