When football and basketball athletes get paid, I will give up my season tickets. Heck, they are barely students now.
Once they become professionals, their ties to the actual academic part of the University will be virtually nonexistent.
Paying athletes is a ridiculously stupid idea. All done and the name of socialist fairness. It is the ruination of college athletics and is on the horizon.
The quest for fairness. Once again causing disaster.
cwtcr hokie wrote:How do we pay all the athletes (pay them as employees) if the school is so broke?
We don't...[/quote]
It is hard to have it both ways, right? The schools in division 1 are making buckets of money and should have no issue paying the athletes that are on the sports teams or the schools are not swimming in money and have to beg to get enough funds to run it.
I have some background with the state of VT finances anyways and the budgets were always tight, the school is not swimming in cash.[/quote]Then you know the athletic dollars and academic dollars are separate.[/quote]
Not totally seperate, the university, any university has to pay for the sports teams as with any other program. If the athletic dept. creates a surplus it goes into the same university pool that funds the rest of the university. Yes, pledged dollars for specific say construction projects can be only used on that project. Same as when giving to VT for instance you can designate what dept. gets the funds.[/quote]
No it doesn't. Athletic department surpluses stay with the AD.[/quote]
So what happens when the athletic dept. is in the red? fire coaches? or staff? Keep in mind that most stats you look at there are like less than 10 schools nationwide that show any kind of surplus ever.[/quote]