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Maybe it’s time to end the hypocrisy of college athletics (And we know this really only about football & basketball!)! Lets the professional sports industry fund minor leagues in these sports. Get them off the taxpayer dole! Maybe the schools can make some scratch off it by licensing their names. That way associations can be maintained so alumni can do tailgates parties in order to fantasize about their youth

The taxpayer does not pay for colligate sports, TV revenue does. Those multi-million dollar coach contracts and fancy training facilities are paid for by donations and TV revenue, not out of a college's general fund. And in most big schools the TV revenue also pays for all of the non-revenue sports like volleyball and LaCrosse.

The NCAA recently started the Name, Image, Likeness (NIL) program to allow college students to make money from licensing their name while still playing college sports.

The original article in this thread is about extending NIL to high schoolers.

And what about Baseball, which is a College sport and also has a full Minor League system?

Myth!
“..The majority of universities in the nation’s top athletic conferences lost money through their sports programs to the tune of approximately $16 million each. ....”

“....But that still doesn’t mean all these institutions are making money from athletics. According to the NCAA, among the 65 autonomy schools in Division I, only 25 recorded a positive net generated revenue in 2019.....”

https://www.bestcolleges.com/news/analysis/2020/11/20/do-college-sports-make-money/

https://www.al.com/sports/2014/08/ncaa_study_finds_all_but_20_fb.html

I can post more examples!

The bottom-line question is:

“Is taxpayer financed entertainment more important than taxpayer financed education?”

Obviously you think entertainment is!

And at the high school level?????