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I hate it when Doyel makes me agree with him

Discussion in 'Journalism topics only' started by hondo, Sep 29, 2010.

  1. Mizzougrad96

    Mizzougrad96 Active Member

    Interesting that they dropped baseball after both new conference members come in with no baseball team. I think every other school in the Pac-10 has one.
     
  2. Ace

    Ace Well-Known Member

    They could pay students by refunding their student athletic fee. Some places they charge the students at large hundreds of dollars every semester.
     
  3. Azrael

    Azrael Well-Known Member

    Two alternatives suggest themselves.

    One is to create a gigantic college sports bureaucracy shot through with exponentially more corruption than the current system.

    Or just dismantle the whole rotten for-profit apparatus and let students go back to playing for the fun of it.
     
  4. SoCalDude

    SoCalDude Active Member


    ????????
    Utah and Colorado both have baseball teams. Oregon re-started baseball 2 years ago, making all 10 schools with teams.
    Cal should be thrown out of the conference for this. Totally ridiculous. It's BASEBALL.
     
  5. hondo

    hondo Well-Known Member

    No, he actually made sense for a change.
     
  6. micropolitan guy

    micropolitan guy Well-Known Member

    The Pac-10 could have solved this easily by making baseball a prerequisite for conference membership, like football, volleyball and M & W basketball.

    Utah plays baseball. Colorado does not.

    Evans Diamond will be a parking garage for Haas Pavilion within the decade.
     
  7. Rhody31

    Rhody31 Well-Known Member

    It's not borderline unconstitutional. Can you be a doctor without a medical degree? No - and you can't play football until you've been out of high school for three years, or whatever the rule is.
    I'm actually shocked the major sports leagues have never made it a rule that a college degree is required to play professional sports.
    The NFL, NBA and NCAA should just cut the horseshit and offer Football and Basketball as a major at every university. Kids go to class to learn what it takes to be a pro athlete - speaking classes, business courses, etc. - and take other classes to learn how to work in the sport if it's not on the field.
     
  8. JimmyHoward33

    JimmyHoward33 Well-Known Member

    In addition to free education, free food and free rent, athletes get free clothes and those high priced goody bags if they make a bowl game. Paying them would be completely insane. If done fairly and way it would need to be legally, you're not talking about enough money to deter the guys who are "cheating" anyway.
     
  9. JayFarrar

    JayFarrar Well-Known Member

    Actualy the way to pay student athletes is through merchandising. Take a dollar from every logo sold and put into a fund that would then distribute stipends monthly.
    it wouldn't be piles of money but it would be something and stipends are what gets every other scholarship kid by.
    schools could also do appearance fees that would then go into a fund for players.
     
  10. HanSenSE

    HanSenSE Well-Known Member

    I'm wondering why they couldn't demote it to quasi-club status, like they did men's rugby. Cal has a huge baseball tradition, dating back to playing in the first College World Series vs. George Bush and Yale. And Pac-10 baseball is huge.

    In case anyone really cares, also getting the ax are men's and women's gymnastics and women's lacrosse.
     
  11. Ace

    Ace Well-Known Member

    I think he'd rather bully you into agreeing rather than winning the argument.
     
  12. tapintoamerica

    tapintoamerica Well-Known Member

    Read somewhere -- Forbes, I think -- that the average college grad earns $400K more in a lifetime than someone with less than a college degree. That's enough to justify non-payment of athletes right there.

    My retort to those who claim the scholarship is insufficient compensation: If you think it's such a pittance, why accept it in the first place? Why waste your time?
     
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