OK just read that Katie Hoff has gone professional. Not that this has any bearing on anything but I am bit bummed.
I really was hoping that she would break Pablo’s NCAA records for most wins in college. There is a part of me that
really wants to have swimmers be amateurs, but that is quickly blasted out of the water with all the DUAH! Why
wouldn’t an oober athlete get millions of dollars for their athletic talents --that is years overdue. Does any one think
swimmers will get to be “divas” or “divos” like some professional athletes?
Originally posted by Ken Classen
Anyway the NCAA/University monopoly makes billions off the Football and Basketball and quite frankly the colleges our getting off cheap by just paying the athlete just a scholarship
You have to realize that there are only a handful of sports at a handful of schools that actually make any money for the school. The NCAA, for all of its detractors, does provide funds back to the schools and does serve as a central administrative source for college athletics. You could call their packaging of the bowl games, the NCAA bball tournet, college world series, etc a stroke of brilliance when you consider how much those endeavors have brought back to the universities.
On the other hand, I do realize the NCAA has some big issues, recently highlighted by their idiotic attempt to make schools like FSU change their team mascot/name.
Originally posted by Ken Classen
Anyway the NCAA/University monopoly makes billions off the Football and Basketball and quite frankly the colleges our getting off cheap by just paying the athlete just a scholarship
You have to realize that there are only a handful of sports at a handful of schools that actually make any money for the school. The NCAA, for all of its detractors, does provide funds back to the schools and does serve as a central administrative source for college athletics. You could call their packaging of the bowl games, the NCAA bball tournet, college world series, etc a stroke of brilliance when you consider how much those endeavors have brought back to the universities.
On the other hand, I do realize the NCAA has some big issues, recently highlighted by their idiotic attempt to make schools like FSU change their team mascot/name.
