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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If American style football scholarships started to all go to foreigners, there would be an uprising on campuses and the general public.  Because soccer doesn't bring in the dollars, the NCAA just lets it go. [/quote]
That’s absurd. If foreigners were better players and would help their teams win, colleges would do it in a second and it would be applauded. College basketball teams have been recruiting internationally for years and it’s not an issue. [/quote]

Basketball teams might have one international player on the floor.  Some of these soccer teams have 8 or 9 internationals starting. [/quote]
Yeah because they are better players. Why is that a problem for you?[/quote]
It's a problem because other countries don't treat higher education the way we do here.   In our current system athletics does allow certain people to go to college who may otherwise have been unable to.   [/quote]
Still not seeing what your problem is. Is it that people are getting to go to college only because they are athletes and you are against that? Do you think they are taking spots away from people who are worse players but more deserving of college? I’m honestly curious and trying to understand why international soccer players on college teams is bad.[/quote]
Who do you think is funding the athletic scholarship?  Most athletic departments are $$ losers for their university.  Internationals can go to college in their countries their country pays for that.  [/quote]
The “country” does not fund scholarships. They are funded by university revenues, which comes from tuition payments of non-scholarship students, football/basketball programs which actually make money, and alumni donations. [/quote]
State and federal taxes do go to higher education in this country.   Even if it's not specifically earmarked for a scholarship an international student is getting access to facilities and everything else.  Student fees go to the athletic departments.  So every student at that school is paying more when you have an international student on scholarship rather than not.  The primary goal of college should be education.   We should be wanting to educate Americans first. [/quote]
It’s complicated. Colleges do get some tax dollars (much less than they used to) and their mission is to educate. But they are also run as businesses, in competition with each other for students and research money, and marketing and athletics play a big role in attracting students who pay full tuition. International students generally pay full tuition and bring in more than money than they give out to a few international athletes. Expanding a college’s brand internationally is good for bringing in tuition money. [/quote]

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