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The money has gotten obscene in college athletics

305_separatist said:
You're the one who sounds like they got your talking points from The Party. Those are questions the market literally answers everywhere else just fine. It boggles my mind that college sports is somehow some crazy exception that we need the guiding hand of the NCAA to run for us otherwise chaos and inequality will rip apart the fabric of our fragile society.
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Oh, there's no question that the market will provide the answers. But those answers will include having a 20-team college football league while the rest of the schools, which can't afford to pay players, go by the wayside. And we would be one of those.
 
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I’m not sure where or if Miami would make this list but we will never know because we are a private school and that information isn’t readily or voluntarily available.
 
Tetragrammaton Cane said:
First of all … and this will be a view that’s not widely held on this site … I’m at the point of eliminating sports in education - especially on the high school level. Yup, almost there. So I don’t care about sticks and short ends.

Second … maybe there doesn’t need to be 100+ D1 programs, maybe there should only be 60.

Lastly, schools have the option of stepping up or dropping down/out.
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Very few schools make the "billions of dollars" that prompt this debate to begin with.
 
Tetragrammaton Cane said:
First of all … and this will be a view that’s not widely held on this site … I’m at the point of eliminating sports in education - especially on the high school level. Yup, almost there. So I don’t care about sticks and short ends.

Second … maybe there doesn’t need to be 100+ D1 programs, maybe there should only be 60.

Lastly, schools have the option of stepping up or dropping down/out.
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So are u stating that sports should be away w on the amateur level? Are you proposing clubs v. school teams? Just trying to understand the angle.
 
Tetragrammaton Cane said:
What I’ll be doing 20 years from now… you can’t predict.

1. You don’t know that opportunities will be take away.
2. The opportunities will be different (like Title IX brought about more opportunities for women at the expense of some men)
3. The current “opportunities” have not impacted poorer kids (inner city, rural, mountain…) as positively as many believe. Revenue sports money, made on the backs of middle class poor kids, has poured into fully funding Golf, Water Polo, Equestrian, Crew, etc… sports that don’t have high participation rates in those communities.
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Except that the opportunities are given directly to those kids.
 
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jackbenimble71 said:
@321>CANES<305 billion dollar industry that gives kids with "blessed talent privilege" to get an education paid for so if they don't make it in football they can get a job, an opportunity to showcase their talents FREE OF CHARGE to make it to the NFL, an opportunity to get better coaches, better nutrition, to build their talent so they can make millions in the nfl. sure wish I had that opportunity.
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Mannn, Who hurt you? lol


Thanks for posting though ... and Go Canes!!!
 
Tetragrammaton Cane said:
It’s not tough, again, it’s a stupid question. You seem to produce a lot of them. The sad part is you don’t realize how stupid it is. Now, I’m just laughing at you.
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And again, you don't have an answer, so you fall back on the "ur dumb" logical fallacy. High school juniors learn about that in Logic class.

No one pays to watch minor league sports that aren't affiliated with a college.
 
Tetragrammaton Cane said:
I didn’t act like anything. You’re just so vested in pushing a narrative of scholarship athlete hate that you refuse to acknowledge that I addressed your post. You just seem to be reasoning dyslexic.
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More straw man!!!

Do you think you're going to insult me out of the discussion without ever contributing anything of substance?
 
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Tetragrammaton Cane said:
I have an answer, it’s you that don’t have an answer so you keep saying I don’t; it’s puerile. It’s stupid. I’ve never in my life used ur for your or you’re...proving that you’re dishonest in discussion and not very bright.

So stupid is an accurate description. But, admittedly, I just happened into that with your “help”.
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You just keep doubling down. When given the opportunity to tell us how you're going to invent the first successful minor football league, you come back with more insults. You're the kind of guy who has all the solutions until someone asks the first question. Then you don't know what to do.
 
I think they should allow the players to profit off their likeness. In all sports. The stars will make decent money, even the depth players can do autograph sittings. And it doesn’t affect the school’s bottom line.

It’d be easier to argue that education is fair compensation when players have other means of making some cash.

Obviously the boosters at the larger schools will leverage this rule to pay recruit, but they already do. At least this is out in the open, and Miami has a chance to compete with our market size. (A lot of businesses who might pay a player for an ad)
 
This argument is always made to show the players as victims. Does anybody realize what paying these kids would do to colleges and tax payers? Boosters alone aren’t gonna foot this bill. State institutions are gonna put it on the tax payers. Private institutions are gonna push this on the regular students by way of rising tuition costs.

And to think activists will allow only men to get laid is hilarious. People are up in arms that the USWNT doesn’t get paid as much as men even though facts and numbers show they get paid a higher percentage of profits than the men do. This would ruin college sports and they would cease to exist if it is ever allowed
 
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