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This is how I feel about college athletics. Make a minor league and pay the players, don't spend millions of govt/tuition dollars on coach salaries that could b
by chessturk 8y ago
This is how I feel about college athletics. Make a minor league and pay the players, don't spend millions of govt/tuition dollars on coach salaries that could be spent on education and research.
- umanwizard 8y agoThis is how baseball works and it seems to be fine. College baseball does exist, but it's not a de-facto minor professional league like college basketball and football are. Even the lowest level of the professional minor league system is stronger than college baseball, and it's perfectly normal for strong enough players to be drafted directly from high school into the professional minors.
- LynxInLA 8y agoAs long as the athletic department breaks even or turns a profit, I don't have an issue with the coach salaries. According to this article, only about 1/4 of schools are running at a loss. That seems lower than expected though. https://sports.usatoday.com/ncaa/finances/ https://sports.usatoday.com/ncaa/finances/
- umanwizard 8y agoDoesn't change how unfair the system is for the players (specifically of men's football and basketball), who are prevented from earning a fair wage by the bizarre rule against paying them. And since NCAA is a cartel, they can't sell their labor on the free market without moving abroad...