re: 32 DI Olympic sports teams have been cut since the House settlement

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I'm talking about entire university systems dumbfrick.

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Which are entirely separate from athletic departments and athletes dumbfrick.

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I understand that every athletic department in division I college athletics is bloated.

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No they aren’t. You have no idea what you are talking about. Most of the workers at G5 schools are vastly underpaid compared to their peers in the private sector and work ridiculous hours. The burnout rate is incredibly high at that level of college athletics.

There is no comparison between the athletic operations at a P5 school and a G5 school. Every G5 school is funding the administration to the bare minimum so funding can go towards, coaches, facilities and the athlete experience.

Once again, you have absolutely no idea what you are talking about.

I'm sure those sports cost a fortune to run

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Still waiting for you to tell us how all of this was unconstitutional too

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The courts have already done this, dozens of times at this point. It’s all public, you can go read it

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The NCAA was created by the schools to organize and standardize collegiate athletics. The schools agreed to the rules set forth by the governing body THEY created. The players, when they signed their NLI with the school they chose, AGREED to those rules. That was their choice. No one forced them.

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And when the NCAA was created college football and basketball was not a multi-BILLON dollar entertainment business.

The schools and conferences have been signing ever more lucrative media ("TV") rights deals for the last 40+ years. That led to the salaries of coaches, ADs, conference commissioners, etc skyrocketing. Nevertheless, the share the players received of the ever-increasing revenue remained largely the same (basically 0%).

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Only Congress has the ability to regulate interstate commerce. Yet the federal courts have seen fit to inject themselves into a debate where they should have zero jurisdiction.

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This I actually kind of agree with, but the courts have been doing this for decades at this point.

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Am I supposed to be upset about losing sports like college tennis? Not sure I ever watched it or can name who the top teams are

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It sucks for the athletes and not all interscholastic athletics should be judged on profitability

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This isn’t a gotcha

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Correct. It’s a fact.

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it’s incredibly easy for people with a brain to understand what I said, especially in the context of the conversation that was being had.

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Yes. You said the players got nothing in a conversation about compensation. Words are easy.

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You, however, are not a people with a brain so I get it

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You think a new office is built every time an employee is hired, and that a $50k/year employee will incur $50k in payroll taxes and benefits.

You also think $100k/year can fund an entire college sport.

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It is flattering that you saved a photo of my postings to make yourself look like an imbecile though

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The photo is just proof that you’re a lying bitch, that’s all.
Remember how you said athletes were getting nothing prior to all of this?

I do not




The guy that believes athletes were getting nothing before nil

I never said that. You’re putting words in other peoples mouths to validate your own feelings

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You think a new office is built every time an employee is hired

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I never said that

Idiotic shite like this invalidates anything you try to say in earnest. Which may be nothing anyway

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This is a business.

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Should it be though, that’s the question