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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]From: https://www.novabaseballmagazine.com/news/quick-hits-guyers-comeback-begins-in-puerto-rico

And thus we have another example of the many differences between public and private school athletics.[/quote]

This irks me...Pathetic.[/quote]

Um ... in public schools, taxpayer money pays the greedy coaches.

Big difference. I don’t care in the same way if they’re doing their unseemly stuff with private - not public - funds.  They’re scum either way but one is worse.[/quote]

Private schools benefit from taxpayer funds also—among other things from the tax exemption they receive due to their not-for-profit status. If they are using the school as a vehicle to personally profit through club programs, then that is a violation of their not-for-profit status and the public trust.[/quote]

I agree with this point. All the Catholic high schools are part of ADW and I haven't seen a separate set of financial statements for individual schools. Religious organizations don't have to disclose much to anybody. I think in this case the athletic department takes advantage of the inherent lack of transparency.  Running separate for profit programs under the auspices of the religious umbrella is not ethical in my opinion, and those programs should be separated so they can be taxed.[/quote]

This is a great post. Having some religious affiliation (any) means they don’t have to file an annual tax return. It’s a Petri dish for fraud. And it means no accountability. For example, wcac rules prohibit athletic scholarships, but St. John’s, DeMatha and Gonzaga - the conference big boys - give plenty of them, many full. The smaller schools in the conference can’t compete consistently. It’s a shame and wcac is a joke - their rules mean nothing.[/quote]

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