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Big Ten Commissioner Jim .. umm .. Delany (official thread)

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Buckeye86 said:
being a student athlete only matters when we are trying to justify not giving them some of the billions of dollars they make for other people
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But they don't generate billions of dollars for other people. Net profitability for all combined FBS college athletic departments--and to a lesser extent--even the football programs alone is negative. Only a minority schools operate their football programs in the black and only a sliver of that number operate their entire athletic departments in the black.

You want to pay these guys, fine. But then they get NOTHING else. Their tuition comes out of their paychecks. The whole charade of tutoring and "success centers" is shut down, they want to be "employees" "working their way through school" then fine. They can do it just like I did. And, they apply to the university on the same basis as every other student. Mr. 5* linebacker doesn't have a 28 or 29 on his ACT. Enjoy Kent State, motherhoker.
 
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Just because the schools spend the money on athletics, facility upgrades, stadium expansions, coaching searches, million dollar assistant coach salaries, six figure salaries for coaches who's sport doesn't generate any income, etc, doesn't mean that the football players don't generate plenty of money.
 
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BUCKYLE said:
Just because the schools spend the money on athletics, facility upgrades, stadium expansions, coaching searches, million dollar assistant coach salaries, six figure salaries for coaches who's sport doesn't generate any income, etc, doesn't mean that the football players don't generate plenty of money.
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The TV contracts are worth billions by themselves.
 
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buckeyegrad said:
Perhaps it is my job, which at times requires me to help student athletes (Division III) work their travel schedules around their classes, but it makes me sad that of all the dumb reasons to do this (i.e. tv $$$$$) and all of the good reasons not to do this (high school football, game day atmosphere), there is no mention of the student athletes having to miss more classes due to travel for a Friday night game vs. a Saturday game.
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The NCAA doesn't give two hoots about the student athletes. All the NCAA cares about is the monopolization of student athletes.

The kids at Northwestern et al are doing it wrong. They don't need a union. They need to file an antitrust suit in federal court.
 
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