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Yeah the Non-revs need money but I bet they are not going to be dishing out all the money in the world when it doesn't make any $ in the first place. They give just enough money to keep it afloat and have a program.
And that's UNC's fault, they let the kids with low SAT scores and kids who couldn't read... but all student athlete's have to meet NCAA standards and pass through Clearinghouse which looks at SAT scores and other factors to determine if the kid is suitable for college. So in return the NCAA was looking out for themselves and nothing else.
I wasn't starting a pissing match until you insulted student athlete's everywhere with this comment " in more times than not, you have absolutely no business being associated with, which, for the 97% who don't end up a professional athlete" So with that comment you're saying that I shouldn't try to improve my education and just become a thug gang banging hood rat??
so you tight ropped a massive veiled insult at about 70-80% of the hard working student athletes that follow the rules,stay out of trouble, maintain a good GPA and make $ for the schools all to be told by YOU a non collegiate athlete that we don't deserve to be there.
stay classy
Less magical than "Tahiti", though.
My issue with this whole thing is yes, the NCAA execs make far more than the student athletes. But student athletes are still far, far more compensated than the average student ever is? 5k in debt? I consider myself lucky to have gotten out of college with three times that much debt. I was flat out broke during college too, and I worked my butt off to get the degree that I got, and I didn't have personal tutors helping me along the way.
I'm sorry, but the "plight of the student athlete" is lost on me. You don't want to be "taken advantage of?" Then don't play the game. Get a degree from college how most people do it, get a job, and work to pay back the debt you will accrue. But if you're lucky enough to have the talent and athleticism so that someone will offer to put you through college at reduced costs, and help you do it? I have a hard time seeing your complaints.
When I was an intern, I'd come back the next summer to do work and be told that the work I did the prior year was never even used. And they paid me to do that. So I can't imagine unpaid interns really helping make anybody that much money.
Stadium is at less than half capacity every game. Lower prices = sell more tickets = same or greater revenue from attendance plus increased sales of gear, food, etc.
We didn't say tickets have to be half cost, but a reduced rate from what they are, yes.
We have a basketball team??
I get the concept of it but the practice isn't quite that profitable. Interns screw things up and take man hours to supervise them and fix mistakes that happen along the way. If you net that all out you aren't in the billions.
Either way, it doesn't really matter in the grand scheme of this debate.
Exactly. With my golden hokie status (2,000-4,999) annual, I will now get a signed poster of the football and basketball team every year! For silver level, you only get the basketball team. :D
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# | Northwestern Football Players Take Steps to Be Represented by Union They would likely have to get a special dispensation from the NCAA to go above the 25 scholarship limit though and the NCAA would probably grant it.
If this happens than I say we should drop ecu and play Penn state or whoever nw plays
No, they do. Interns, both paid and unpaid, do invaluable hours of crap everyday grunt work so that the regular employees don't have to, which allows them to put in far more valuable time to their jobs and the businesses get more efficient work out of them, which, when you total it all up industry-wide, likely brings in billions over what they spend on the interns. Its a trickle-up effect that really saves companies a lot of money long-term.
Yep, 4.37 for both guys and 4.28 for Knowles. I never got a 40 time on Mangus, but you can see his speed on the field. Some guys run great 40 times but don't have that "football" speed. Remember Peter Warrick? Yes, we all do. He ran like a 4.6 or something but just had great football speed.
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# | Northwestern Football Players Take Steps to Be Represented by Union No, it will mean that Northwestern will just get new players on scholarship and lose another seven to ten games for lack of talent. Coaching staff would essentially have to start over.
Companies make billions off unpaid interns every year.
I think that's a pretty big stretch. Billions off of interns? Even our paid interns are viewed more as a a way to help them out then to crank up our profits.
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# | Northwestern Football Players Take Steps to Be Represented by Union If the NFL was willing to settle, then the NCAA could easily be brought to bear in some limited capacity. I do not disagree regarding high school and as we have seen (Friday Nightmare Tykes) even elementary school, but they will likely find some way to make the NCAA hold at least some responsibility.
If we have no reason to be associated with so called schools why are they recruiting us to play there? mhm mayeb because they make Millions compared to what it costs them to put us through school.
Because, if you pay attention to any of the studies coming out industry-wide based on this whole UNC thing, if you're a student athlete at a major school, especially in football or basketball, there is a very high chance you're only there based on athletic prowess, not academic capabilities.
And as for Louisville. Hey, great. Men's basketball made a lot of money. The non-revs of that Athletic Department need funding, and if they have no revenue streams, they have to be supported somehow. If you want to go down this path of directly compensating revenue generating athletes for what they do, well then bend over and kiss non-revs everywhere goodbye because there will be absolutely no way of financially supporting those sports, especially when a vast majority of Athletic Departments across the board can barely break even on an annual basis as is.
And another thing, I appreciate the term "buddy" that you're casually throwing around in a thinly veiled insult. If you want to get into a verbal pissing contest, may I direct you to TechSideLine. That site thrives on it.
So when the NCAA rules that the entire Northwestern team are no longer eligible to play football does that mean that the BiG will have to forfeit their portion of the revenue to Northwestern? Do all the teams that have NW scheduled get an automatic win from the forfeiture?
And get a cheaper coach to pay for it!
The Bahama Breeze runs like a 4.28 or something ridiculous like that.
I am liking that you keep working that theme in. We need to get that message out! Let's be COMPETITIVE HERE HOKIE CLUB!
...and with your $5 a month you will receive ________ in the mail. (Welcome packet, information for your local extension, and this lovely Virginia Tech chotzke worth about $5) Yes, it means they spent the first two months on you, but then they have the other ten months worth to hire coaches, etc)
I got it from a Forbes article, so my guess is that he is pretty close to being 100% right. But being an ex-athlete myself I can say that I was about 5-10k in debt when I graduated. so that's probably a generous #.
What are you talking about, never make anywhere near these totals? A large number of people here will at least have a family income this high sometime in their lives.
Anybody can earn this stuff if they're in a field capable of supporting it and they rise to the top of their field.
And that's what these guys are, the top of their profession.
Top tier college and then the only way up from here is NFL, so that's a total of ~120 Division 1 and 32 NFL OL coaches.
Heck a $50 increase in student fees most won't even notice and that is over a million a year.
Living only 20 minutes from the Burg we used to go all the time, but we quit buying tickets because,
1.)They are way to freaking expensive for what product is.
2.)They keep going up in price which I will not pay when the on court product is much like a high school AAU team.
3.)They do very little to engage the fans.
I guess what i'm trying t say is if you want people to be in the stands you need to stop charging a ton for tickets if the on court product is what you would find a lower level college, and do more for the fans. Have members of the team stick around to meet the fans. Just my two cents.