Should college atheletes get paid? Options

[impala454]

Ok, so you laugh at my example of expenses of the Tech athletic dept, but that's only ONE of many.

well keep on goin then damn. you're all the way up to $24,000 for one football game, you've only got $1,476,000 left to spend to outweigh the revenues of just the single game tickets.

and you seemed to completely ignore the actual data I posted from the NCAA. you can theorize costs all day long but facts are facts. the NCAA data shows that 40% of division 1 schools turn a profit, and over the entire division 1 that average profit is 2 million dollars. unless you can show me some data that says otherwise I don't see how you can continue to tell me that there's only 3 or 4 schools in div 1 that turn a profit.

[Testm0nkey]

no

[pysex]

they already get paid with scholarships and other "rewards" for handling balls


not willing to raise tuition more and ticket sales more and city taxes more just so a college fuckjob idiot quarterback can have even more money

[theIncredibleEdi...]

well keep on goin then damn. you're all the way up to $24,000 for one football game, you've only got $1,476,000 left to spend to outweigh the revenues of just the single game tickets.

and you seemed to completely ignore the actual data I posted from the NCAA. you can theorize costs all day long but facts are facts. the NCAA data shows that 40% of division 1 schools turn a profit, and over the entire division 1 that average profit is 2 million dollars. unless you can show me some data that says otherwise I don't see how you can continue to tell me that there's only 3 or 4 schools in div 1 that turn a profit.

I ignored it because it was 4 years old.

So lets see....according to those OLD numbers, Division 1A schools made an average of $29,400,000....and had an average of $27,200,000 in expenses. That means that there's an average profit of $2,200,000 for the entire Division 1A. A little over 2 million is a lot to me, but to a large number of schools that's not shit. And there are how many schools in Division 1A of the NCAA? I believe it is 128. So, that's an average profit (when divided between all the schools) of $17,187. Wow! A whole 17 grand per school! Let's go build all new facilities!!!
While I admit I may have grossly underestimated the number of schools making a profit from their athletic programs, I still hold my position that a majority of programs DO NOT make a profit.

That same document says that the trend is more schools are making a profit, but the average profit itself is going down.

[moebary]

You just said the average profit was 2.2 mil, so taking that and dividing it by the number of schools means nothing, it already was the average. So on average, each school makes 2.2 mil, not 17,000.

This post has been edited by moebary: Feb 9 2007, 09:27 AM

[impala454]

yeah trainer you may wanna check your math there... the 2.2 mil is already the average

here's the graph from the paper. hopefully it will show the trend and allieviate your worries about four year old data. now if it's taken some dramatic downturn since 2003, cool, lets see the data that shows this.


and just for shits & giggles here's the one for div1 football..

[pysex]

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