Article does not mention that only 2 college sports make a profit, football and men’s basketball. Should we pay those college athletes and not the others?
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.
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...