Maybe a strong word to use, but I don’t see those things as equal to the billions schools make off of athletics students.
Each school doesn’t make billions. I know that’s all the media says, “billion dollar industry". So is Pizza. Does that mean your local pizza joint has a billion dollars? Should Dominoes pay their drivers 100k per year since pizza is a billion dollar industry?
i guess i don’t understand this flawed logic that if you are involved in any anything that makes money, that you are then entitled to a ‘cut’ of that profit.
Women’s sports lose money. Should they have to pay extra tuition, you know, to pay their fair share?
It’s real easy to look at an Alabama and all the money they make but fact is, for every Bama, there are 3 teams like Tulsa, Akron, or Rice, that LOSE money on sports, even football.
Football is the only college sporg that makes money and not even every school does make money on it. Many lose because football is so expensive. Schools keep it at a loss because it is the best advertising they can get.
Every other sport loses money, even basketball. Sure, a couple teams like Duke, UNC, and the elite programs make a small bit on hoops but everybody else loses. Penn State loses money on basketball. They lose money on their national championship wrestling program. They lose on every women’s sport. And Penn State, backed by the Big Ten network money, is one of the top money making sports programs in the country.
Until you start adding up all the bills of the various sports programs.
Pay the football team and you have to fold up baseball or soccer or various women’s sports. Now there’s about 50 kids not getting college scholarships.
and why is it that the kids on smaller sports like wrestling or women’s field hockey seem to get by just fine on what the schools provide for free while football and basketball players spin tales of going to bed hungry.
I knew a guy who worked as a PSU football student manager. Basically a go-fer at the facility. These players have their own private dining halls. Their laundry is done for them by the team managers. They get firts pick at class scheduling. They get non-stop free shoes and shirts and bags and all kinds of swag. They have private tutors. And yes, they do get some spending cash.
they have it really really good and the only way an athlete goes hungry is if he skipped dinner. Then was too lazy to go buy his own dinner at one of they many on campus or off campus eateries. Or am i supposed to believe they are too poor to even buy a slice of pizza.
