it’s pretty simple. Sports are great fundraising for schools. Not just at ticket booths but as fundraisers for alumni. Some schools go too far with it and they are nearly bankrupting themselves just to win games, it some schools do it right, make money, and raise the prestige of their school in the process.
Sports are not the reason why tuition keeps going up. It’s because of federal student aid. Years ago, students had to actually pay for school with savings and some loans. Now there are grants and loans are given to anybody who signs their name. In other words, universities were able to raise their price because the market was no longer dictating the price. Most colleges have lowered their standards so that just about anybody can go to college now.
Too many people are going t0 college. They are getting worthless degrees and finding themselves in huge debt and still without any real skills. There are now tons of college graduates who are going to trade schools to learn to weld or cook, because it’s a marketable skill un;I,e their degree in some bullshit liberal arts area.
This push to pay athletes will backfire, as do all liberal ideas. If you are truly on the side of the poor athlete, the shouldn’t your goal be to see that there are as many scholarships as poss9ble? I know that the scholarship gets pushed aside as nothing, but in reality, that is the real payment. It’s on the players if they’re don’t take advantage and get a good degree.
When they start paying players, many of the smaller schools will start dropping some sports programs, particularly football which is expensive. Poof! There’s 85 fewer kids getting scholarships each year. For what? So that the fewer number of athletes get some walking around cash.
yes, it will be a great deal for the student athletes that remain. But isn’t it a huge net loss if that mean that literally thousands of kids who would have gotten a free education, are now not in college at all because so many programs were cut?
