Sports are profitable for Universities.
49"You’re talking about 95 percent of colleges that probably spend somewhere between … $40 million and $5 million on college sports, and they lose money,” Baker said
61They never specified who they were. I can assure you that certain people make a ton of money.
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Which I can't really understand at all as an Englishman. A lot of universities here do have sports teams but they're mostly amateur. The only major event really is the Oxford vs Cambridge boat race which does get sponsorship.
34That’s the problem. They shouldn’t be worried about profit. The fact that education and health are completely focused on profit in the US really demonstrates how far we’ve gone down a wrong path. (I’m not a talkie or even a leftist for the record, just hate unfettered capitalism)
26Some sports are profitable. A lot of sports aren't.
A lot of the sports programs go back to a time when universities acted more like finishing schools for the wealthy and intelligent. It was thought that sports, especially team sports, were a good way to teach the soft skills of being a leader.
18Now, it’s profitable for the athletes. They should probably be paying their own tuition if they’re bringing in millions in NIL money.
8But isn't their goal to teach people things? I don't understand how silly games and money became their main focus.
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Give the ones most likely to get brain damage a shot to higher education.
The perfect ruse
30But no time to be educated. Also the education is the only form of compensation they’re allowed.
Seriously we need to end athletic scholarships and replace them with minor leagues for non baseball sports and need based scholarships.
12There a last week tonight episode about this I believe
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24k tuition? Are we living in 2015?
22I know this is a meme, but I do think it's worth mentioning most D1 popular sports costs like, coach's salaries, scholarships, facilities, equipment, and travel, aren't funded through the university.
https://www.upua.org/presidential-blog/university-budgeting-and-finances-what-about-athletics
It's still a pretty messed up system, don't get me wrong. Just pointing out the universities aren't giving scholarships to athletes instead of students... at least not directly.
12There's like three hundred million Americans, and I feel like nowhere near enough of them are passionate about how higher education and unpaid athletes performing for the commercial benefit of rich people should have absolutely nothing to do with each other.
12I would be passionate about it if anybody would listen to me decrying how ridiculous the entire shenanigan is. But I have a feeling nobody would ever listen to me.
If Elon musk or Bill Gates or
Steve Jobs...sry deador President Biden or John Cena were passionate about how higher education and unpaid athletes performing for the commercial benefit of rich people should have absolutely nothing to do with each other... then I think people would listen.1
still trying to work out the economics of paying for college, and having all my work published under them. And potentially not even owned by me.
Seems rather weird to pay for that.
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