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Originally posted by j8ear
Concur. Those that do however, have an unlimited pool of slave labor to pull from (well not unlimted...but you get my point).
Some get VERY rich off of college athletics...and it's not the athletes that sell the tickets or create the bidding wars for the broadcast rights. To me it's unconscionable that the athletes are not compensated.
-bear
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well, the only part i won't agree with is the "unconscionable that they aren't compensated." i went to U of Mich, so I know about how much money they generate. i also knew some people on the football team, and they get "compensated" more than most people know. they get a lot of free clothes from sponsers, many get living stipends. if i remember correctly (4-5 years ago) one of the guys on the team told me that he got something like $400 a month stipend to go along with his scholorship that covered full tuition. now for a college student, that's a hell of a lot to live off of. so they don't "need" it. whether or not they should get more, be salaried even, i'm not one to say. i'm pretty ambivelent on the subject.