re: Great read on why paying college athletes would NOT be doomsday

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Guess what? They could find the money. Without slashing women's rowing. Fact: sports are a small part of overall campus budgets. In 2009-2010, total expenses for non-revenue sports (that's for everything, not just scholarships) at Florida were $79.5 million -- approximately three percent of total campus revenue. At Michigan, the University of Maryland, the University of Illinois and UCLA, total non-revenue sports expenses over the same period were approximately one percent of the same. If schools truly value scholarships in sports like field hockey and track, they can find ways to pay for them

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many schools, especially state schools, are in budgetary crises. i wonder how they will "find the money"

...especially once the student loan bubble bursts

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Replace guarantee-game creampuffs with regular opponents. Let Plonsky go -- most schools manage to endure with a single, non-gender-specific athletic director. Cut Dodds' salary in half. Trim $300,000 from each of the remaining categories. Congratulations: you just covered the $4.2 million cost of all non-revenue sport athletic scholarships at Texas. All via savings the school could achieve right now, without waiting for the resolution of the O'Bannon case.

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this is just ridiculous

typical progressive authoritarian command

just like the assumption that the players choosing to go to college are not rational enough to make their own decision. ridiculous and a complete lie made just to make some point. classic prog behavior