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Originally Posted by habernac
No, it isn't enough. Not when the schools are making boatloads of cash.
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As PIM already said, schools simply aren't making boatloads of cash.
Start paying football players and say goodbye to every other sport at the school, unless those athletes find a way to pay for it themselves. Football, and to a lesser extent men's basketball, finance entire athletic departments and make it financially possible for those other teams to exist.
Here's another question for you, how does this work at a place like Duke? The football team draws flies (relatively) and is most likely not profitable, while the basketball team is the hottest ticket in town and almost certainly profitable. Do Duke football players get paid? Duke Basketball players? What about hockey players at a school where that sport turns a profit? Is that how this works, your sport turns a profit so you get paid?