Originally posted by cockhornleghorn:
Originally posted by CofCougar08:
Originally posted by Mox94:
I think the girl playing the least watched sport will get the same thing an all-American football player gets. If not, they will be getting sued before the sun comes up tomorrow. I really am not sure how I feel abiut all this. On one hand you feel for kids that come from nothing and don't have enough cash in their pocket to go get a pizza. But on the other hand I fear that once you Crack the door a myriad of problems will follow and you will never get it shut again.
You're absolutely right. When 85,000 screaming fans show up to watch the women's collegiate sewing circle team cross-stitch their way to victory, then maybe they should get that stipend....
Otherwise, stipends should be reserved for the revenue sports. Make money, get money. And before some new-age lib-activist comes on and starts throwing SAT prep words at me, let me just say: I didn't make the rules. Capitalism is a wonderful thing. People pay for what they are interested in watching. Hint: by-and-large, it ain't title IX sports.
In some ways capitalism is good, but it's also selfish and greedy. Those who throw comments out like the above are only concerned about making money.Why is this so hard for people to understand?
That is why there are non-for profit institutions like universities. People don't seem to get that Non-profit institutions are allowed to make profit. Making a profit just can not be it's primary purpose. The primary purpose of a university, which is a non-profit business, is to further education. They money for improving their university and improving educational opportunities. That is why they give scholarships to student athletes in non revenue sports. That is why they give them scholarships and don't simply hand them a pay check. Universities are doing this so that can get some gifted athletes to sit their rear ends in a classroom. Now if a young person being offered that opportunity doesn't appreciate the academic opportunity and are all about playing their chosen sport in front of a large audience, that is not the fault of the University. That is a perk of the deal. That is not the substance of the deal. The deal is to get an expense paid education. The scholarship is not some kind of compensation because you put in time on a field or a court and the school makes money. The scholarship is offered because the scholarship is the entire point of even having the sport in the first place.
Now if you want to talk about pay based on profits earned. That doesn't even work in the for-profit business world. For example: say a company makes Gizmos and Sprockets. Gizmos make 200 times more profits than the Sprockets are making. That doesn't mean all the workers in the Gizmo factory make 200 times as much as the workers in the Sprocket factory.
