[ralaw]

Originally Posted by futuristxen

College Basketball=Plantation system.

Poor choice of words?

College players get paid well enough when after graduation they have no loans to payback.

[Tragedy]

Originally Posted by ralaw

Poor choice of words?

College players get paid well enough when after graduation they have no loans to payback.

considering what they do for the schools, the amount of money a good team can bring in... psh.

Tell you what, for all the "free education is enough for college players" think about this.

Usually, well just about all the time, head coaches of college basketball teams are the HIGHEST paid people on that campus. Care to justify that?

[Peter Pan with a Tan]

You guys amaze me how you can find something wrong with every single action there is. Cheering is a GOOD thing. STFU trolls.

[futuristxen]

Originally Posted by ralaw

Poor choice of words?

College players get paid well enough when after graduation they have no loans to payback.

Slaves got a roof over their heads and free food for their troubles too. The massa took care of all that.
And sometimes if the master was a good master, he might drop a little petals of education on his slaves. Sounds an awful lot like college athletics to me.

College is a crock, and the athletic programs are a joke. For the most part big time college sports amount to little more than exploitation of poor people by rich fat cat advertisers.

[Peter Pan with a Tan]

Originally Posted by Tragedy

Usually, well just about all the time, head coaches of college basketball teams are the HIGHEST paid people on that campus. Care to justify that?

Somebody is paying the coaches. You are never richer than your boss.

[Peter Pan with a Tan]

Originally Posted by futuristxen

Slaves got a roof over their heads and free food for their troubles too. The massa took care of all that.

College is a crock, and the athletic programs are a joke. For the most part big time college sports amount to little more than exploitation of poor people by rich fat cat advertisers.

Wow, you're a pathetic troll. Relating college basketball to slavery. Pathetic. Sign off now and slit your wrists please.

[futuristxen]

Originally Posted by Peter Pan with a Tan

Wow, you're a pathetic troll. Relating college basketball to slavery. Pathetic. Sign off now and slit your wrists please.

That you act like this is a radical notion which has not been floated before is kind of a seering indictment of your own life experiences. Expand your mind and start seeing the truth of the world. Telling someone to slit their wrists just because of your own ignorance is kind of sad. If I had a prayer group, we'd pray for you.

[Tragedy]

Originally Posted by Peter Pan with a Tan

Somebody is paying the coaches. You are never richer than your boss.

Yea, someone is paying the coaches, and the guy cutting the check is usually making less.

Ex. Mike Jarvis (when I attented St. John's while he coached there) Made around 2-4 mil PER YEAR. The highest ranking school official made significantly less than that.

[futuristxen]

additionally how non-major sports and women's sports are treated by most schools is also deplorable and another reason to do your best to give college athletics the finger. They never make cuts to the football team. It's always something like women's swimming or track and field. Which just further illistrates how much about the money college athletics is.

[ralaw]

Originally Posted by Tragedy

considering what they do for the schools, the amount of money a good team can bring in... psh.

Tell you what, for all the "free education is enough for college players" think about this.

Usually, well just about all the time, head coaches of college basketball teams are the HIGHEST paid people on that campus. Care to justify that?

This happens in the world everyday 95% of the working world doesn't make 1% of what their empoyers make as an organization. Not having to pay $50,000+ dollars after graduation is a great benefit to have.

Another flaw in this argument is how would these players get paid from an amount standpoint? What about recruiting? I am sure Duke University or UCLA could pay it's student athletes much more than Showan . What about equal rights from a gender standpoint? Should football players get paid as much as the golf team or field hockey team? Paying money to college athletes would only complicate things. Bad idea!

Originally Posted by futuristxen

Slaves got a roof over their heads and free food for their troubles too. The massa took care of all that.
And sometimes if the master was a good master, he might drop a little petals of education on his slaves. Sounds an awful lot like college athletics to me.

College is a crock, and the athletic programs are a joke. For the most part big time college sports amount to little more than exploitation of poor people by rich fat cat advertisers.

Who cares! 99% of the athletes graduate and have to work in the real world like you and me, but the only difference is in some cases these athletes are getting an education they wouldn't otherwise receive for free.

[tone wone]

Moochie Norris/Mark Madsen/Mateen Cleaves rolled in to one.

He would fit right in with Houston's bench....they stand & cheer for every gotdamn thing. I still remember the first perseason game against the sixers...they were giving standing ovations after every basket