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2018-06-28 Home Front: Culture Wars

Who Benefits from College Sports Programs ‐ and Who Pays?

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Posted by Besoeker 2018-06-28 03:38|| || Front Page|| [6 views ] Top

Some students 'paid' more than others. No mention made in this article of the Sandusky-Paterno student victims.

Posted by Besoeker 2018-06-28 03:47|| 2018-06-28 03:47|| Front Page Top

#2 ...I graduated from the University of South Carolina in 1997, and for about ten years afterwards, the fundraising letters always managed to find me even with five moves in the meantime.

They finally stopped when I sent back a note that pointed out that the USC football coaches (it should be pointed out that all of them during that period were decent men who did work hard to get their players educated as well as win football games) made more than every single elected official in SC combined. Haven't gotten a letter or call since.

Mike

Posted by Mike Kozlowski 2018-06-28 05:11|| 2018-06-28 05:11|| Front Page Top

#3 Long time past for the old regents graft game to end. Put oversight directly in the hands of the pols in the Statehouse. They can divvy up who gets what schools. Suddenly the cost to 'my' kid to attend a state university or college comes into direct focus without layers of excuses for inaction.

Posted by Procopius2k 2018-06-28 08:25|| 2018-06-28 08:25|| Front Page Top

#4 So they didn't consider how much the programs earned, nor the intangible benefits. They set out to prove something they already knew, and what do you know it worked.

Posted by Herb McCoy 2018-06-28 10:22|| 2018-06-28 10:22|| Front Page Top

#5 Really would need to see the Real Data because there is a smell of Bovine Scat here. At the Uni I attended there were two (2) different programs at work: the (#1) Semi-Pro Football/Basketball/Baseball Program that had its own funding stream and offered cut price tickets to student ID holders to attend games. They also depended on money from Bowl Games, product endorsements, tickets, and donations** for their revenue stream -- they were basically an independent entity on the financial side. And where there is money there is going to be corruption and, yes, it is going to stink.(**One Interesting *Donation* was that Alumni were offered progressively better seat locations for higher $donations$...)

Then there was the Second (#2) Group of Amateur Student Athlete Programs that had facilities for everything from Tennis to Swimming to Rugby to Chess -- this was supported by levies on the "Student Activity Fees" (i.e. the Student's pockets) and 'some' money from the "Semi-Pro" Athletic Department. But if you want to go play a game of Tennis *someone* has to pay for the upkeep, eh?

So it is a little more complicated, isn't it? I recommend that the authors go watch Chariots of Fire(1981) and fuel their nostalgia about how rich students could indulge in "student athletics" as a hobby in Ye Gold, Olde Dayes.

Posted by magpie 2018-06-28 10:35|| 2018-06-28 10:35|| Front Page Top

#6 With the demise of the NFL and 'legal' college sports betting? It's trickle-down economics!

Posted by Skidmark 2018-06-28 11:00|| 2018-06-28 11:00|| Front Page Top

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