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lol pro-bowel

And the problem is.........?

Agreed, those are excellent. Maybe they just rename it the CFA Fresh-Spun Peach Shake Bowl.

Insulting someone's parenting skills is an insult, regardless of whether they are actually good parents. Cut and dry. Similar to if you walked up to a mentally handicapped kid and called him stupid.

What is this "socialist" crap you're talking about? Saying that someone who dislikes when rich get greedy suddenly turns them into a socialist? There is absolutely no reason to start arguments on this board about politics at all.

And what the hell do you mean by "your kind of people"? If you're trying to toss that "socialist" tag at me, good try. I'm a libertarian through and through. The only reason I spoke up was because your insult was out of place on this site. I come to this site because it is a mostly civil place to read and discuss news about something I enjoy. I don't want to see personal attacks launched at other members, let that stay on the rest of the web.

Also, I just want to point out that most of your "absolutes" that you listed off about rich people don't really apply to most professional athletes.

Is the $6 Billion figure revenue or profit? I think it's revenue (just basketball revenue if I'm remembering the original post correctly), so it doesn't mean that the NCAA has $6 Billion sitting in a bank somewhere. One page I looked at a couple days ago broke down how NCAA Revenue was used (2012 numbers). 60% went back to the member institutions (It broke down heavily in D1's favor with 53% going to D1 schools, 4% to D2, and 3% to D3). 13% was listed as distributed to championships, which I assume means that it is used to fund championship tournaments, 19% went to a category called "programs and national office services" which I'm unsure exactly what it is, but I'm assuming it would be other projects like PR, get kids health initiatives, and the like, 4% went to central services which was defined as building operations and salaries and 4% went to other services which included the eligibility center.

One of the more interesting items for me was that if you divide the 2012 revenue ($10.6 Billion) by the number of student athletes (420,000) you end up with a little over $25,000 in revenue per student which is pretty close to the average cost of attendance listed below, and this is before you take out the 40% that isn't sent back to the schools. I wasn't able to find a number of just D1 athletes since I think it would be a little more useful to look at just the $5.6 Billion of revenue sent back to D1 Schools per athlete. D1 (FBS and FCS) schools are 24.5% of NCAA member institutions though and if you assume that student athletes are spread evenly across Divisions (I would guess that D1 schools are more likely to offer more programs and thus actually a higher percentage of student athletes than the 24.5%) then there would be 102,900 D1 student athletes and a little less than $55,000 in revenue returned to D1 Schools by the NCAA per student athlete. If this number is anywhere near correct (and I think its probably a little high), then schools aren't exactly making a killing off of student athletes. I think the oft repeated number is that all but 20-25 programs actually lose money on athletics each year.

For comparison's sake, in 2012 the average Total cost of attending a 4 year college was :
$17,131-------------in-state public
$29,657-------------out-of-state
38,589--------------private

The source website also suggested adding an additional $4,000 for " textbooks, supplies, transportation and other expenses."

I don't really come down on either side one way or another, I don't think that student athletes, or at least those on scholarship are being taken advantage of in most situations as far as the benefits they receive for participating in college sports, but I also think there are instances where the NCAA rules can be counter productive and the ISTP in me hates red tape in general.

Edit: The numbers I found are very different than the numbers that smittyvt32949 found above, I'm guessing that my numbers include revenue for each school as part of the total NCAA Revenue while his only had revenue that comes directly to the NCAA, since the page I found had about half of the Revenue coming from Ticket Sales

American Heritage ATH Isaiah McKenzie will take an official visit to Virginia Tech this weekend. Hokies might pull off the coup of the year.— Dieter Kurtenbach (@dkurtenbach) January 31, 2014

Not a model citizen? Huh? Taylor was a thug at SCUM and was a thug as a pro. The canonization by Snyder and the skins fans bordered on both the ridiculous and the sublime.

Why.... why wouldn't you?

My senior year an ice storm shut down our power and water for several days. I hung out at a brother's crib in Terrace View where we cooked out on his grill. Made pancakes one morning. On the grill. It was epic!

As a former resident of 7300-H Foxridge, I'm saddened by this news!

I Live in Foxridge and heard a ton of sirens for a good twenty to thirty minutes. Wanted to go walk over and check it out after I got word. Hopefully everyone is okay.