If they're good, then they'll get paid when they 'graduate to pro'. Paid better than any other field I can think of.

 

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Do you really need an accounting sheet to see that 100k people every single week coming to Michigan/Ohio State/Florida(Really any BCS school for that matter) helps the rest of the school and allows other lesser-watched sports to exist?

And that doesn't even include the TV deals, licensed equipment sales, etc...

http://espn.go.com/ncaa/revenue/_/year/2009

2009 Alabama had 123 million in revenue.

Of course in your opinion, none of that helped anybody but the football team right?

No, absolutely not for several reasons.

1) There is this grand idea that athletics (especially football) causes schools to just rake in boatloads of cash and that's simply not true. In fact, most schools lose money because whatever money football, and for SOME schools basketball, brings in they use to fund all the others. Field hockey and volleyball aren't exactly getting coverage on ESPN.

2) Legally speaking, if you pay the athletes of the most profitable sports, you have to pay all of them. You cannot discriminate. So football players will have to be paid the same as womens field hockey players.

3) Supposing that you DO pay all the school's athletes the same, who is to say what is appropriate? $2,000 per semester might be fine with donors at Texas but would absolutely break the bank for a school like Middle Tennessee State. The second that this becomes something the schools can decide for themselves, you will only see the rich getting richer. Programs like Texas, USC, Ohio State, and Alabama will absolutely dominate year in and year out. That doesn't work for most people in this country who have affiliations elsewhere and would be able to do little, if anything, to help their own schools.

4) Whenever athletes now are getting their hands on some money, it's never used for the things these people preach about. Everyone wants to make some SOB story about how they're supposed to buy books and clothes while in school, but whenever players are busted it always involves jewelry, cars, or dozens of pairs of shoes. It's all luxury items.

Like who? It becomes a catch 22 because the more money you have, the more successful you are, and the more you're on the hook for travel costs, big bowl game appearances, etc.. look no further than the annual stories of teams elected to BCS games that lose millions of dollars by going. It's a financial pitfall.

nah no salary for the students....


look at penn state, they are paying for there sports program now

 

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MForce knows nothing about this subject and is basing all the crap coming out of his fingers on speculation and assumptions.

 

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I think college sports programs should all be shut down and the funds be reallocated towards scholastic programs.

 

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Is that why you didn't post anything resembling an *actual* response? You're not refuting anything I said. If it's so easy and so out there, do it. Either support yourself or go back to posting about your balls.