My reference was to Division I, as I stated.
The entire edifice of revenue-producing college sports is phony. “College degree?” Have you looked at the graduation rates in the Division I revenue-producing sports? They’re pathetic and the vast majority of those who graduate have majors that end in the word “studies.” IOW, utter crap. Athletes like Dexter Manley go to “college” for 4 years and come out illiterate. Do you even watch college basketball and football? Most of the players couldn’t put a grammatically correct English sentence together if you pointed a gun to their heads.
Then, there is the rampant criminality. A few years ago, virtually the entire Rutgers recruiting class ended up in the criminal justice system. Anyone who follows sports knows that SEC stands for “Schools Enrolling Criminals.” The mollycoddling of criminal “student-athletes “ at Southern schools is simply another example of its essentially bestial culture.
I know this is tough for people to understand but universities exist to prepare intelligent young people to take prominent places in society. They do not exist to provide entertainment to HL Mencken’s Great Unwashed.
Finallly, if we ended the fiction that giving “scholarships” to illiterate violent felons has value in the free market, the players could then earn the money they deserve. There is no good reason for the Duke basketball coach to make $9 million a year and the players to get bupkis. This is a government-created market inefficiency that should disgust anyone who is not a Socialist or a freeloader.
I have no idea what you're talking about with this. The NCAA is a private, voluntary association of schools. So what exactly is "government-created" about the coaches earning more than do the players?
There are more than 250 schools playing Division 1 football. At about 75 kids per team (which is low), that's 18,750 kids playing Division 1 football. About 250 get drafted each year. So again, the overwhelming majority of Division 1 players are not pro prospects.