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The Associated Press, April 6:
“Texas is the largest athletic department, earning more than $165 million last year in revenue — with $109 million coming from football, according to Education Department data. The university netted $27 million after expenses.”
The full out-of-state cost for a year at UT-Austin — which includes tuition and fees, room and board, books and supplies, estimated personal expenses and transportation expenses — is projected at $49,842.
Multiplied by the total allowable number of football scholarships (85), that’s about $4.2 million a year. Or, 15.7% of the athletic department’s profits and just 3.9% of total football revenues.
And that’s in the absolute most expensive case, given that players aren’t allowed to except anything of monetary value beyond their scholarships, not even pasta.
Tell us again how universities are nonprofits giving their star (student) athletes equal educational value for the millions he brings in. Tell us again how (student) athletes aren’t employees.
We’ll wait.
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ThePreseason Amway Coaches Poll is out!
The time to stop talking about college football and actually start watching it is now less than a month away. But in the meantime, talking will have to do, and the preseason Amway Coaches Poll is always a good place to initiate discussion — or arguments, but we prefer to keep matters polite.
Alabama will enter the campaign with the No. 1 ranking, just as it did a year ago. The Crimson Tide were picked first by 49 of the 65 coaches on this year’s panel. Alabama has been ranked in the top five in every preseason poll since 2009.
The Morrison family of Clay, N.Y., presented a different side of Jim Boeheim that showed a man with a generous heart who loves his Syracuse community. Jackie Morrison told told Syracuse.com three hours before her father, Dan’s death, Boeheim called her dad — a die-hard Orange fan — over the phone while he was in hospice care.
“What was beautiful was he was trying to give my father something to look forward to,” said Jackie, who sent an email to the Jim and Juli Boeheim Foundation earlier in the week with the request for Boeheim to call, and crossed her fingers.
In 1906, the Intercollegiate Athletic Association of the United States, the forerunner to the NCAA, was founded to set rules for college sports. Well, “rule,” really. And that rule is “literally no kind of disgusting and/or criminal behavior is unacceptable so long as you do not pay your players.”
Fuck the NCAA.
