Buckeyes and Gators wonder if they deserve a cut of BCS cash [Archive]

ChronicTiger

01-06-2007, 10:14 AM

For most of them they should spend more time wondering what they are going to do when they find they cant make a career out of playing football......They should spend more time wondering what the free education they are getting can do for them.......

Here a few points from an article by some clone.........

1. College and universities are for education first. Athletics is secondary. The majority of the student population is not made up of athletes, but of young men and women who value that degree so much that they pay thousands of dollars to obtain it.

2. If you pay the athletes, do you also pay the cheerleaders, the water boys, the equipment guys, the stat keepers, chess club, physics club, honors society, and the list goes on.

3. The majority of money brought into the university system is not from athletics but from tuition and state coffers as well as lottery money. The money that is brought in helps to pay for the athletic travel, coaches’ salaries, administrative expenses, and facilities management. None of these are needed without athletics.

4. If you pay athletes, tuition will go up for the rest of the student population. Most schools are not in the black with their sports programs. Some women’s programs siphon money from the men’s programs but because of Title IX they have to exist.

6. The NCAA is not “pimpin” athletes; it is the other way around. Athletes use the university system to get a free education and the exposure that comes with it to impress NFL, NBA, NHL, and MLB scouts. Where else would you get free publicity and an opportunity to showcase your talents and earn a degree at the same time?

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