At 07:21 PM 2/19/2003 -0800, you wrote:
--- Dan Minette <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > What is the income generated by a winning football > program? Dollars to > donuts, even with the high expense generated by the > football program, the > football program generates a lot more revenue than > expenses. The _real_ > crime is that there are so many athletes who are > paid in lies for five or > six years of work. > > Dan M.You lose, Dan :-) There was a good article in the NY Times Magazine a few weeks ago that argued (very convincingly, in my opinion) that few, if any large college football programs run at a profit for the school. The small handful of really elite schools - Notre Dame is the classic example - might, but for each one of those, there are a hundred that aspire desperately to do the same and fail miserably, wasting millions of dollars. I agree with you about the lies, however. The fact that the NCAA manages to get a large number of (disproportionately poor and black) young men and women to generate considerable revenues for their school and turn a blind eye to conditions that make it impossible to get their promised education while receiving no compensation whatsoever in return, and somehow maintain itself in a position as some sort of moral arbiter, is one of the eternal mysteries of American life. I would suggest, as a simple solution, that every athlete who plays a Division I varsity sport get _two_ years of full scholarship for every year he plays on the team. This would acknowledge the impossibility of studying in any meaningul sense while giving the athletes some sort of reward for their efforts. Gautam
Can you tell me when the article was published? I can't belive that only a handful of programs are making money. Heck, some of what were once weak schools, like Miami, built their programs by playing punching bag for powerhouse programs and getting paid for it.
And I don't agree with your view of the lies. I'd say that the thousands of kids who do take advantage of their opportunities and graduate in four years, or less, far outweigh the few who say 'the system failed me' because they didn't do their work. Some schools sports programs have better graduations rates than the general student body. Yes some have far far worse.
Kevin T. - VRWC
Time for bed, more tomorrow
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