Outrageous 5-year Rise of College Sports Spending

[vy65]

fair enough

[DUNCANownsKOBE]

I think the taxpayers whose money get spent on those ins utions should care. But they clearly don't which is how those schools find themselves in that situation.

This.

Also, to people who suggest paying college athletes, this is why that's a horrible idea. You start letting schools do that, B-list/C-list programs will start blowing millions on player salaries.

[FuzzyLumpkins]

This.

Also, to people who suggest paying college athletes, this is why that's a horrible idea. You start letting schools do that, B-list/C-list programs will start blowing millions on player salaries.

So? This isn't China.

[Blake]

No its not. You're not forced to go to any specific university, and have a breadth of choices. If you don't like how one is budgeted, don't go. Simple as that.

It would be an incredible breath of fresh air to find a 4 year school that does not force you to pay for fees not associated with your education.

but since I don't like it, maybe I should start my own university. I could bestow myself a doctorate in a 6 month program.

[DUNCANownsKOBE]

I am not conflating the two. Just saying that collusion so you don't have to pay kids and prevent their right to a free market is ed.

They have a free market. They can go play Canadian football for 3 years before entering the draft. No one is forcing them to go to college.

The thing I hate most about the topic of college athletics is people portraying the life of a college athlete as treacherous indentured servitude. The DoJ has a lot more important stuff to worry about than college kids getting a free education other people incur massive debt and pay thousands to get, when all the athletes have to do in return is play a sport most people play for fun.

The real ed up thing colleges do is not properly advise students who pay thousands to major in political science or philosophy that their major won't lead to any jobs.

[Blake]

This.

Also, to people who suggest paying college athletes, this is why that's a horrible idea. You start letting schools do that, B-list/C-list programs will start blowing millions on player salaries.

I haven't seen one single proposal to pay college players that doesn't badly fail in some way or another

[DUNCANownsKOBE]

What also could be done to help the profitability of college athletics is get rid of bull like le 9 rules that force schools to have female athletic programs that don't generate any revenue at all. Schools should have been allowed to drop those programs 3-4 years ago when tuition at state universities started flying through the roof.

[FuzzyLumpkins]

It would be an incredible breath of fresh air to find a 4 year school that does not force you to pay for fees not associated with your education.

but since I don't like it, maybe I should start my own university. I could bestow myself a doctorate in a 6 month program.

It's no coincidence that college prices started skyrocketing after Clinton started slashing funding to ins utions like the NSF. The schools need new revenue streams for their research programs. I get that but this way of doing should be illegal anti-trust statutes being as they are.

The NCAA is facing a collusion lawsuit from Ed O'Bannon about the trade practices of the NCAA.

http://www.al.com/sports/index.ssf/2...bannon_la.html

If the judge allows the case to become class action, the NCAA is ed. Let it be so...