The scene with Cartman in the Prexy’s office is ROFLMAO hilarious. If you have not watched it, you must.
A major inspiration for this and hot topic on big football campuses is the Big Ten (and now SEC) consideration of whether “student athletes” should receive additional spending money. Since the imposition of scholarship limits, the big schools have suffered some loss of athletes to smaller conferences. This would allow these bigger schools to make more generous offers than some of their competitors in smaller conferences, and regain some of their advantages.
While I can certainly understand the argument that these semi-pro athletes are being ripped off by the universities, the payment would largely be a transfer of funds from two sources–students, through their tuition and athletic fee subsidies, and taxpayers, through the tax subsidies provided to the NCAA and universities.
Can we allow students and taxpayers a vote about this?
June 1st, 2011 at 6:01AM
The scene with Cartman in the Prexy’s office is ROFLMAO hilarious. If you have not watched it, you must.
A major inspiration for this and hot topic on big football campuses is the Big Ten (and now SEC) consideration of whether “student athletes” should receive additional spending money. Since the imposition of scholarship limits, the big schools have suffered some loss of athletes to smaller conferences. This would allow these bigger schools to make more generous offers than some of their competitors in smaller conferences, and regain some of their advantages.
While I can certainly understand the argument that these semi-pro athletes are being ripped off by the universities, the payment would largely be a transfer of funds from two sources–students, through their tuition and athletic fee subsidies, and taxpayers, through the tax subsidies provided to the NCAA and universities.
Can we allow students and taxpayers a vote about this?