What this article DOESN'T say is that men's revenue sports also pay for basically all women's athletics.
Liberals are so funny, aren't they? They only believe in capitalism when it benefits one of their designated groups of oppressed victims.
https://www.cnn.com/2020/09/08/us/ncaa-student-athletes-equal-pay-trnd/index.html
They need to stop redistributing the wealth. Make every sport sink or swim with their own revenue!
Ronald Raegan wrote:
They need to stop redistributing the wealth. Make every sport sink or swim with their own revenue!
I guess track is out....
It's not incorrect, but a lot of things are unable to stay financially viable without subsidization from other sources... like the arts, non-profits, or charities. Doesn't mean they're not of value, but the author clearly has a prerogative to disparage people that don't play basketball or football because it fits the "woke" agenda of late. This too shall pass.
Just cancel all college sports. Sometimes you have to give people what they want. Just cut them all, even track & field. If it is considered labor and the athletes aren't benefiting, it is cruel to make them participate.
Time to Kill College Sports wrote:
Just cancel all college sports. Sometimes you have to give people what they want. Just cut them all, even track & field. If it is considered labor and the athletes aren't benefiting, it is cruel to make them participate.
This right here
More BS propaganda from the left. If the poor black football and basketball players feel oppressed then they should not take part in college athletics. No one has a gun to their head to live the life of a king, be treated better than anyone on campus and receive a free education. Sounds really tough.
How about the fact that the money these players are supposedly generating is mostly coming from white fans. Let's stop with the race insanity and searching for oppression where there is none. It demeans the people that are actually oppressed in this world.
Let's take this foolishness a step further - why are blacks disproportionately represented in football and basketball? Are the white student-athletes being held down by racism?
I think that blacks should have to fund the sports on the basis that they are represented for scholarships. So if 50% of basketball scholarships go to blacks, 50% of the funding must come from blacks.
Pretty much the entire university funding model is built on disproportionate funding from affluent families of any race. If everyone got out exactly what they put in the college system would look entirely different. For example, look at all the income med schools generate. The students/residents aren't being treated fairly there either. Look at the schools with large endowments that came from affluent famies. That disproportionatly benefits others.
The insane premise of this report is that black athletes do not benefit from these athletic scholarships (last I checked, the vast majority of scholarships on the men's side went to football and basketball, which are overwhelmingly black athletes). There are tons of black athletes on scholarship in non-revenue sports. Why do they publish drivel like this during a year where the revenue sports aren't even really competing and thus not generating revenue for their respective programs? The handful of athletic programs in this country that actually turn a profit are quite rare, and none of them are turning a profit this year. It's not like they just pulled the scholarships from all the athletes because of COVID. Without these athletic scholarships [black athletes (particularly black male athletes) participate in D1 and D2 sports at a rate roughly double their percentage of the population] a lot of these individuals would not get the benefit of a college education (which is a huge asset long term in terms of lifetime earnings).
What they should do is eliminate athletic scholarships all together. These college teams don't generate revenue because people are tuning in to see individual players, they generate revenue because people are tuning in to watch their school's team play. People would still tune in and watch if all of the pro caliber athletes decided to forgo collegiate athletics and enter a minor league. I've watched plenty of college sports games and even some minor league baseball games with my kids without knowing the name of a single player on the field. When it comes to college sports, the name on the front is far more relevant than the name on the back.
WFH mileage wrote:
Ronald Raegan wrote:
They need to stop redistributing the wealth. Make every sport sink or swim with their own revenue!
I guess track is out....
Yep, track and cross would be out.
The racism in your comments is amazing. You must recognize that their are affluent
Whites in tennis, golf and swimming that receive "not needed" scholarships; because of the revenue produced by Big time football programs !!
Pokey Thomas wrote:
Let's take this foolishness a step further - why are blacks disproportionately represented in football and basketball? Are the white student-athletes being held down by racism?
Talent?
But his point was that the funding comes from whites. Those are facts. Your tone is racist while his post was factual.
Pokey Thomas wrote:
Let's take this foolishness a step further - why are blacks disproportionately represented in football and basketball? Are the white student-athletes being held down by racism?
Lol at the triggered white people. It's so hard being a white student-athlete. Golf, squash and sailing all matter!
Pokey Thomas wrote:
Let's take this foolishness a step further - why are blacks disproportionately represented in football and basketball? Are the white student-athletes being held down by racism?
Errr.... No! White people are not subject to racism so any areas they are not dominant in is due to other factors! I can't believe we have this level of ignorance
The answer is easy. Eliminate all college sports. It is the only solution. Plenty of clubs around.
Wow, man, if I were being exploited that badly I'd quit. Unless I were getting some kind of benefit .... hmmm.
Over the past few decades, collegiate athletics has given millions black people the skills necessary to earn a good living after college - whether it's with a college degree or developing the students into professional athletes.
Without college athletics, many of these athletes may never go to college. Many would never leave their home town. Most would earn a low wage at a dead end job. Many might get involved with drugs or gangs.