I believe it was in the New York Times a couple days ago I read an
article reporting that small colleges were starting football teams as a
way of recruiting more students. As their enrollments dwindled, the
small colleges realized that they could recruit students without
sufficient skills to play on a serious team.
Carrol Cox wrote:
Seth Sandronsky wrote:
What of the private/public funding for sports venues as a factor increasing
the capital invested in pro sports? Consider this. The well-heeled owners
of the Sacramento Kings are angling via "the executive committee" for tax
dollars to build a new arena
Just think of the public's money that goes into training and selecting
pro athletes from grade school through college. Very few college
athletic programs come close to paying for themselves, and no
high-school program does.
Any team needs a large number of 'second-string' players for the varsity
to push around in practice. Without that meat in junior high and high
schools there would be no stars for the NFL, NBA etc.
Carrol
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Michael Perelman
Economics Department
California State University
michael at ecst.csuchico.edu
Chico, CA 95929
530-898-5321
fax 530-898-5901
