re: Last Week Tonight With John Oliver hammered the NCAA

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Do we really think that coaches should be making $3M a year,

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the vast majority of those salaries are not paid by the school and are paid by individual donors via organizations like TAF

you can't use that in an argument about the NCAA. LSU pays les miles, for instance, something like $400k. the rest is funded via private donors

so for this discussion, you can only use the salary paid by teh school/athletic department

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The NCAA problem is they have two distinct member groups in CFB and MBB- one that is basically a pro training league, the other that somewhat resembles the student/athlete model they try to peddle. That they expect these groups to compete and play by the same rules is ludicrous.

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well the "student/athlete" schools sure don't mind using march madness money to pay for their entire athletic departments, now do they?

separate the 2 and they lose that money and then then have to scale back all their athletics. that means fewer scholarships for athletes (mostly non-revenue sports entirely subsidized by revenue sports). who loses? those kids