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Originally Posted by chiefzilla1501
I can assure you Mizzou is not actually in the red because of football. If you don't believe me, give them the death penalty and see if that affects the university's endowment any. Colleges are not struggling to make ends meet because of football. And lots and lots of people except athletes are profiting off these players.
Athletes have major restrictions on the kinds of jobs they can get and how much they are paid, and the amount of work and time that goes into football makes that even harder to do.
I think it's silly to claim that college football players should stop playing the game if they don't like the rules. What rules? We are talking about a nonprofit sport that doesn't pay their employees, and then has masses of people profiting off their work. This conversation wouldn't be happening if there weren't people abusing the privilege of getting these players to work for free (and yes, I get that "free" includes tuition and basic expenses).
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1. Re-read the numbers again please -
Mizzou's athletic department was in the red for 2012. That is not debatable. ~$16M in the hole.
You are getting lost in the football numbers but ignoring the sports that are nothing but money pits ( almost everything else ). So when you say 'lots and lots of people are profiting off these players', only in the sense that (a) coaches & ADs get paid and (b) TV gets theirs... and always will. TV is a yin & yang thing - without it, the program isn't taking in the money that it is. Coaches and ADs... are you going to say they don't deserve to get paid?!?
2. Being a former collegiate athlete, I can firmly attest that you are overstating the restrictions on employment. The jobs are approved & monitored to make sure
some work is getting done, but the pay is very good and the labor is usually minimized ( ie. 'cushy' jobs ).
3. So 'fair pay' isn't silly but participating in a market by choosing where to work is?
Student athletes are compensated with the
best scholarships in the country. Low GPA requirements, tuition paid, housing paid, food paid, some miscellaneous campus items paid ( on campus card program for extra meals or bookstore supplies ), loaner books, setup with a well paying summer job, free tutoring, free continuing education for your bachelor if you leave early for the NFL, free health care via personal training staff, and if they make a bowl game, free gifts such as shopping sprees, TVs, $400 headphones, MP3 players, and video game systems.
Yeah... they are sooooo taken advantage of...
But obviously, suggesting that if they don't like those accommodations that they can pursue the Arena league, Canadian league, SemiPro league or special exemption to enter the NFL early, that's just crazy talk!
