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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The universities, whether they are public or private, should stop preferential admissions to legacies, athletes, donors’ children, celebrities’ children.[/quote]

Agreed.  I’d also like to see the big time college sports changed.  The kids on the football/basketball/baseball/hockey teams at these big D1 schools are generally not even vaguely student-athletes.  They should just have semi-pro teams related to colleges.  Never going to happen of course.[/quote]

OP - interesting thanks .

Who would this apply to? Big 10 schools? [/quote]

OP again -  I have heard mixed reports about value added by big sports teams at universities - that they bring in revenue and foster school spirit. I also heard that athletic recruits lose their scholarships unless they maintain good grades.

How do you think these top athletic programs are hurting college life? Are universities spending too much money and energy recruiting athletes rather than top scholars ? What are the downsides to you about D1 programs ?[/quote]

The vast majority of athletic programs run a deficit.

I’ll just re-quote what Cardale Jones, the national championship winning quarterback as OSU said - “Why should we have to go to class if we came here to play FOOTBALL, we ain't come to play SCHOOL classes are POINTLESS”

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Yikes that is a scary quote … it seems like more people agree with you and that you are right about expenses outstripping revenues … when coaches are earning so much more than top academic professors at universities - that is a big problem …

[b]Analysis: Who is winning in the high-revenue world of college sports?[/b]
By — Andrew Zimbalist, Econofact
Economy Mar 18, 2023 7:14 PM EST

Athletic expenses surpass revenues at the overwhelming majority of Division I programs. Due to longstanding rules of amateurism, the athletes themselves do not receive a salary even though some have an estimated market value of several million dollars.

The Issue:
The U.S. hyper-commercialized system of college sports, which does not exist anywhere else in the world, is in a period of overarching transition and deep financial crisis. A select share of Division I college athletes produce billions of dollars of revenue every year for their schools. Almost all of this revenue comes from football and men's basketball.

And yet, expenditures by college athletics departments are such that, with the exception of a small number of schools, athletic expenses surpass revenues at the overwhelming majority of Division I programs. The median salary of head football coaches in the Division I Football Subdivision (FBS) is above $3.5 million, along with handsome perks and bonus provisions.[/quote]

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