I agree with the sentiment here, but there are incredibly good schools with high profile/high earning teams.
But the teams don’t get the money, just the school and the coaches.
That true. But the coaches? The coaches make insane money.
Same. At my Uni, zero tuition dollars go to boys’ football or basketball.
And if the two highest paid public servants in your state are the University football coach and the State football coach, what sort of government is it?
Ball is government. Ball is life.
What happened to Shrek? Does he play ball?
On the other hand if most of your school’s money is in some investment firm, instead of invested in the wellbeing and learning of your employees and students. And you have a investor as the person with the highest salary.
Then your “school” is more of a financial institution than a school. And probably should be taxed as such.
Looking at you, Harvard: https://www.reuters.com/world/us/harvard-posts-investment-gain-fiscal-2023-endowment-stands-507-billion-2023-10-20/
Exceptions will be made if having a behind-the-scenes money fountain means tuition is basically free.
Still looking at you, Harvard.
Not controversial, just plain true. This university sports thing from the US is crazy
Nerd jealous of the jock that brings more money into the college.
If money is the metric, it’s all downhill from there.
You must be a bit confused from all those concussions in your football games. Leave education to people who can at least read.
Never played and tested out at college level for reading in 5th grade. I’m just not bitter or delusional about “for profit” colleges paying the people who make them the most, the most money. Look at the Florida Gators. They spend like $12 million a year on coaching for a program that gets $40 million in profits to the school. No professor is going to bring in that. No professor is going to help a college that much. A profitable sports team brings in more money for a college than anyone else.
/r/iamverysmart
It’s perfectly possible to have a great sporting franchise and a great education at the same school. As they say, porque no los dos? This comment is clearly bitter towards sports for no reason.
The OP never said that the education wasn’t good, only that it was the side hustle
Like the other guy said: work on reading comprehension, you sound like an ex football player from HS who took one too many shots to the head and is now perma angry when he doesn’t understand basic sentences in English anymore
User you are replying to wasn’t replying to OP?
Maybe my reading comprehension is bad, but it seemed obvious to me user was replying to a specific comment seeing how it was a reply to that nerd comment instead of OP and post used the phrase “this comment”.
Just so you know, the complaint isn’t towards the coach, rather the institution.
Its a bad theory. The university near me loses money on sport. Like 1-2m a year. The coach is the highest paid, of course. The annual budget of the universal is 900m. Sports is small potatoes compared to everything else.
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