Exactly, Tracy. And I wish I had answers. The rage this elicits in me seems to block me from rational thought into the matter.
On Thu, Jul 22, 2010 at 7:17 PM, Tracy Curtis <tlcurti...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > That all makes sense. It doesn't make a lot of sense to target Reggie Bush > as though he had power as a student. USC's former coach was the highest > paid university employee in the country at around $4.4 million when he > resigned. This hasn't hurt him. The NFL salary is more than $7 million. > But at least in public schools the box office from sports like football and > whatever else is major in the area pays for swimming, fencing, baseball, and > the like. What is there to do about that? > > > On Thu, Jul 22, 2010 at 5:50 PM, Martin Baxter <martinbaxt...@gmail.com>wrote: > >> >> >> Tracy, I don't really have a massive experience to correspond with this. >> The closest I've come to the sports-money experience was during my years at >> Virginia State, a measly D-IIA school. During football season my last year >> there, I was casually seeing a young lady who worked in the stadium office >> as an accountant trainee. After a game we played against Troy State (nothing >> big whatsoever, as we weren't in the same conference and were playing each >> other for the first time), she had to help count down the gate. It came to a >> hair under 1.1 MILLION. When I ehard that number, my first thought was to >> wonder what serious games, like Army-Navy, Ohio State-Michigan, Notre >> Dame-USC and Alabama-Auburn drew in. >> >> This entire farce regarding sanctions and punishments because the players >> get a tiny fraction of the gate SICKENS me. PAY THE PLAYERS. Sure, it ruins >> the spirit of "amateur athletics", some may say. IMO, it was ruined the day >> I sat outside that money room, looking at all of the worn bills being >> collated. >> >> >> On Thu, Jul 22, 2010 at 4:35 PM, Tracy Curtis <tlcurti...@gmail.com>wrote: >> >>> >>> >>> I am really curious about any experiences you would like to share with >>> the NCAA. I was an undergrad in a place where athletics didn't bring >>> revenue to the school; but I've been in places since then were sports matter >>> a lot. But I know that student-athletes have vastly different experiences >>> depending on whether their sport brings in money. >>> >>> >>> On Thu, Jul 22, 2010 at 2:58 PM, Martin Baxter >>> <martinbaxt...@gmail.com>wrote: >>> >>>> >>>> >>>> Wherein Brother Whitlock Speaks Truth to Power... >>>> >>>> >>>> http://msn.foxsports.com/collegefootball/story/jason-whitlock-expose-ncaa-not-reggie-bush-072210?GT1=39002 >>>> >>>> The NCAA rule book is not the United States Constitution. >>>> >>>> If anything, the rule book supporting the bogus concept of “amateur >>>> athletics” is akin to the laws that supported Jim Crow, denied women >>>> suffrage and upheld slavery. >>>> >>>> The architect of the modern NCAA, the organization’s former president, >>>> Walter Byers, spelled out all of this in his 1997 *mea culpa*, >>>> “Unsportsmanlike Conduct: Exploiting the Student-Athlete.” >>>> >>>> Byers wrote: “Today the NCAA Presidents Commission is preoccupied with >>>> tightening a few loose bolts in a worn machine, firmly committed to the >>>> neo-plantation belief that the enormous proceeds from college games belong >>>> to the overseers (administrators) and supervisors (coaches). The plantation >>>> workers performing in the arena may only receive those benefits authorized >>>> by the overseers.” >>>> >>>> Byers was not and is not a Jesse Jackson sympathizer. Byers is a white, >>>> right-wing conservative from Kansas. He was the NCAA’s first president >>>> (1951-1988) and sole visionary. He admitted creating a monster. His NCAA >>>> memoir was his repentance and call for a fundamental overhaul of a corrupt >>>> organization. >>>> >>>> >>>> -- >>>> "If all the world's a stage and we are merely players, who the bloody >>>> hell wrote the script?" -- Charles E Grant >>>> >>>> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQUxw9aUVik >>>> >>> >>> >> >> >> -- >> "If all the world's a stage and we are merely players, who the bloody hell >> wrote the script?" -- Charles E Grant >> >> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQUxw9aUVik >> > > > -- "If all the world's a stage and we are merely players, who the bloody hell wrote the script?" -- Charles E Grant http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQUxw9aUVik
