Interesting article on where facilities are going -
https://www.washingtonpost.com/spor...384dd4-a558-11e5-9c4e-be37f66848bb_story.html
https://www.washingtonpost.com/spor...384dd4-a558-11e5-9c4e-be37f66848bb_story.html
Facilities Going Over the Top
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It is an interesting juxtaposition of the other argument that is going on in parallel about student athlete's rights and whether or not they are compensated fairly, whether they can unionize, etc. I am not sure how one topic can be discussed without the other. Maybe in the end it is all a wash.. Players help bring in historically high revenues that they can't access directly (via paycheck), so in addition to scholarships and academic support, the schools built lavish resorts to hang out in. It is like having a job with a crap salary but awesome perks and benefits vs. a job with a good salary but no perks or benefits. Certainly does make it hard to view the players as victims when they are essentially picking a school based on such luxuries.
"That will leave room for the sand volleyball courts, laser tag, movie theater, bowling lanes, barber shop and other amenities planned in the $55 million complex that South Carolina’s second-largest public university is building exclusively for its football players".
I thought the athletes are to attend classes and study.
Like it or not- athletics is the "front porch" of just about every university not named Harvard or Oxford--
And even in those cases, examples abound where athletic accomplishments hugely raised the profile of those schools...
None of our esteemed wanabee lurkers would give a steaming crap about Saint Scissor Lift College of South Bend if it wasn't for the jocks...
And even in those cases, examples abound where athletic accomplishments hugely raised the profile of those schools...
None of our esteemed wanabee lurkers would give a steaming crap about Saint Scissor Lift College of South Bend if it wasn't for the jocks...
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