VICE: Does racial resentment fuel opposition to paying college athletes?

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In 2006, former Kentucky coach Tubby Smith made $2.6 million. In the decade that followed, as Kentucky athletics earnings climbed from $68 million to $132 million, pay for the leader of its flagship team skyrocketed. In 2016, John Calipari made $8.6 million, an amount Kentucky officials justify as fair market value for a coach whose team will generate tens of millions of dollars.

But as more money has surged into Kentucky athletics, records show, Calipari isn’t the only coach cashing in, as the athletes remain amateurs. From 2006 to 2016, pay for Kentucky’s track and field coach climbed from $108,000 to $429,000; men’s tennis coach pay jumped from $122,000 to $230,000; and gymnastics coach pay rose from $112,000 to $252,000. Every coach made more than the school’s average full professor’s salary. In a phenomenon playing out across the country, salaries are soaring for coaches of lower-profile college sports largely subsidized by lucrative football and men’s basketball, whose annual national tournament opens Tuesday.

In 2016, John Calipari made $8.6 million, an amount Kentucky officials justify as fair market value for a coach whose team will generate tens of millions of dollars.

This part stood out to me as well. People in this thread keep asking "how do we determine their value" or "how much should they pay them"? as an excuse for them not to be paid. Yet somehow they've figured out the "fair market value" for their coaches (including coaches whose sports don't even turn a profit) but when it comes to their players all of a sudden they'll become retarded and not know how to calculate that.

 

[Walt]

This part stood out to me as well. People in this thread keep asking "how do we determine their value" or "how much should they pay them"? as an excuse for them not to be paid. Yet somehow they've figured out the "fair market value" for their coaches (including coaches whose sports don't even turn a profit) but when it comes to their players all of a sudden they'll become retarded and not know how to calculate that.

It'd be a fukkin laugh riot if it wasn't such brazen plunder and exploitation. The program I referenced is paying like $9 million and all kinds of benefits just to one man, his family members, and a couple of his close friends. Really sit with that number. The program isn't even a top program in its conference. No protests, no anger, no notable public rebuke. But the mere idea that a player might get a meager stipend? This is unfair and too complex and amateur and what about jealousy and it will all fall apart and I can't believe the entitlement. You'd think more of these parents and students might be concerned about why tuition money is going toward facilities they'll never use, coaches who'll never so much as pat them on the head, and not toward improving classrooms, libraries, science labs, etc. Then again...

 

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Even fukkin Missouri managed to find $21,000,000 for their basketball coach



Source: Martin accepts 7-year deal at Mizzou

 

[superunknown23]

People here are actually trying to justify this blatantly racist ripoff?

 

[The Amerikkkan Idol]

Even fukkin Missouri managed to find $21,000,000 for their basketball coach



Source: Martin accepts 7-year deal at Mizzou

But no man, they're all losing money & are paying these coaches millions out of the goodness of their hearts

 

[Walt]

Flush with TV money, Big Ten is giving commissioner Jim Delany a $20 million bonus

Big Ten commissioner Jim Delany is set to receive $20 million in bonus payments.

USA Today Sports, which received a copy of the conference’s newest federal tax return, estimated the amount of the bonus based on a comparison to returns from prior years. And according to the Big Ten, Delany deserves that compensation based on the market value of his leadership.

Here’s a statement by Minnesota president Eric Kaler, chair of the Big Ten council of Presidents and Chancellors to USA Today.

“Commissioner Delany has provided invaluable leadership for Big Ten member institutions while delivering first-in-class performance during a time of great transformation in college athletics. He has not only successfully balanced the missions of academic achievement, student-athlete development and athletic success, he has successfully developed the resources necessary to strategically position the conference for success well into the future. His compensation is market-competitive, based on an independent third-party analysis, and reflects the value and impact of his leadership.”

Market value. Hmmm, where have we heard that term before when discussing the big money involved in college athletics and the romantic idea of amateurism?

Let’s start with how Forbes estimated that the market value of NCAA athletes, who receive just their scholarship and in-kind services, is worth several million dollars, yet one study showed 85 percent of high-major football and basketball players live below the poverty line. We also recently learned how the media attention around Gonzaga’s run to the NCAA Tournament title game is valued at $406 million to the school.


You can’t ignore how much cash college athletes bring in, at least in revenue sports. Yet the NCAA has thrown money all over the place to research how to help its athletes instead of just distributing that money to the athletes themselves.

A recent poll showed about 40 percent of people think college athletes deserve compensation beyond their athletic scholarship, which is more than ever before. Meanwhile, the Big Ten reported nearly $500 million in revenue on its new tax return, which is more than double what they made in 2010. The league’s new TV deal with ESPN and Fox should push that number even higher in future years.

Let’s remember where all that money is coming from.




Derrrrr... How will dey pay da players? Derrrrr... do yoo know da schools lose da money every year? Derrrr.... if dey pay da players da sports will end! Derrrr.... Dey get da education so it wouldn't be fair if dey got da money!

 

[No Sleep]

Flush with TV money, Big Ten is giving commissioner Jim Delany a $20 million bonus

Where the clown @MontanaMurphy?

 

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Flush with TV money, Big Ten is giving commissioner Jim Delany a $20 million bonus

Big Ten commissioner Jim Delany is set to receive $20 million in bonus payments.

USA Today Sports, which received a copy of the conference’s newest federal tax return, estimated the amount of the bonus based on a comparison to returns from prior years. And according to the Big Ten, Delany deserves that compensation based on the market value of his leadership.

Here’s a statement by Minnesota president Eric Kaler, chair of the Big Ten council of Presidents and Chancellors to USA Today.

“Commissioner Delany has provided invaluable leadership for Big Ten member institutions while delivering first-in-class performance during a time of great transformation in college athletics. He has not only successfully balanced the missions of academic achievement, student-athlete development and athletic success, he has successfully developed the resources necessary to strategically position the conference for success well into the future. His compensation is market-competitive, based on an independent third-party analysis, and reflects the value and impact of his leadership.”

Market value. Hmmm, where have we heard that term before when discussing the big money involved in college athletics and the romantic idea of amateurism?

Let’s start with how Forbes estimated that the market value of NCAA athletes, who receive just their scholarship and in-kind services, is worth several million dollars, yet one study showed 85 percent of high-major football and basketball players live below the poverty line. We also recently learned how the media attention around Gonzaga’s run to the NCAA Tournament title game is valued at $406 million to the school.


You can’t ignore how much cash college athletes bring in, at least in revenue sports. Yet the NCAA has thrown money all over the place to research how to help its athletes instead of just distributing that money to the athletes themselves.

A recent poll showed about 40 percent of people think college athletes deserve compensation beyond their athletic scholarship, which is more than ever before. Meanwhile, the Big Ten reported nearly $500 million in revenue on its new tax return, which is more than double what they made in 2010. The league’s new TV deal with ESPN and Fox should push that number even higher in future years.

Let’s remember where all that money is coming from.




Derrrrr... How will dey pay da players? Derrrrr... do yoo know da schools lose da money every year? Derrrr.... if dey pay da players da sports will end! Derrrr.... Dey get da education so it wouldn't be fair if dey got da money!

 

[Walt]

Meanwhile, in the Big 10, Iowa, which pays its head coach 4million + a year to often finish 5th in the conference and lose games to powerhouses like North Dakota State and Northern Illinois, and Northern Iowa, is being audited for impropriety: APNewsBreak: Critical audit another blow for Iowa athletics

This, after the AD just cost the University $1.4 million in a gender discrimination lawsuit.

It's graduation weekend there. Think there's a group of parents and students protesting this colossal waste of University/state funds? But let a black kid ask for a minor stipend for helping to generate all this income and they'll be writing vituperative editorials and calling into radio shows foaming at the fukkin mouth.

 

[David_TheMan]

Black athletes are the cause of their plight, fukk them.
They want to be coddled and love the system to the point none of them want to take steps to fight it and force an issue, so fukkem.