There is no financial advisor worth his/her salt that would ever recommend a top 5 player foregoing the NBA for a year.
I think you are trying to make fetch happen. It won’t.
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I think you are trying to make fetch happen. It won’t.
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It may be obvious in practice to everyone that they are, but legally they are not. And it is important to the schools that they not be, which is why they fought so long for their amateurism model.
I'm not following here. In either scenario - injured or not injured - Caleb makes more money in the pros. There is no scenario in which the college contract for less guaranteed money helps him. And in any event. Caleb would not get a big extension after two years in the NBA. NBA teams have team options for years 3 and 4 (that get picked up approximately 100% of the time for top 10 picks) and he can't get the extension until year 5.
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look at who's won national championships over the years... it's the same schools.
Why should someone step in if the schools are willing to pay it, the kids will accept it.
This will stop when it becomes a bad deal for the teams... it's clearly not a bad deal for the teams.
Did college sports ever help the education budget?
Seriously, which universities receive money for the academic side of the campus from the athletic side?
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Pretty much never
Granted many rich folks that are attracted to sports give to the "library" or whatever when asked
But no
Never
The largest donor to the Smith Center, Walter R. Davis, Elizabeth City and Texas oil tycoon, was usually reluctant to donate big money to athletics.
He was the largest donor to what became the Walter Royal Davis Library.
Skipper Bowles and others prevailed upon Davis to donate $1.5 million to the Smith Center. They succeeded. Davis was more generous to academics than sports.
The Cone Family in Greensboro donated more to academics and arts than to sports. The patriarch of the branch I knew (several grandchildren in Chapel Hill) donated to the Rams Club and to the Smith Center so that his grandkids had great seats (2 in Row F/G in Carmichael directly opposite Coach Smith’s nose) and 2 in the row immediately above the break in Carmichael (also directly opposite Coach Smith). The patriarch donated $25K to the Smith Center; and, that bought the rights to 4 seats about 20-25 rows up at about mid-court.
The Cones donated many multiples of $25K to UNC before and after the Smith Center fundraising campaign.
The Hanes?
CD Spangler?
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Indirectly, I would say yes.
Schools that win championships or have great seasons in the big sports can definitely generate monetary value on the education side. Winning seasons can boost application numbers which allows schools to be more selective, which increases reputation and prestige. Its called the Flutie Effect. Alumni donate more. Merchandise sales spike. Schools receive greater media exposure and brand value. I wouldn't say the bump is consistent or even that significant, but I think traditionally college sports was viewed generally as school marketing.
Tell the University of Chicago that it should “invest” in sports to increase donations and its endowment.
Northwestern has poured 10’s, maybe 100’s of millions into sports and it continues to suck in revenue sports; but, donations to its endowment keep increasing and its prestige as a university is great.
Williams, Amherst, Bowdoin, Wellesley, Smith……still elite colleges.
The Ivies. Still the Ivies.
Kill off professional college sports and the elite academic schools stay elite.
“Bama could win 20 straight national football titles and it would still be ‘Bama academically.
Ditto for UK in hoops.
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I love Carolina Sports
I love the Academic side more Because the avg Joe in NC can attend a really top quality school-and increasingly the Financial Aid is catching up with the poor counties
It is the Crown Jewel of our State-I do fear it is under attack
I love the Academic side more Because the avg Joe in NC can attend a really top quality school-and increasingly the Financial Aid is catching up with the poor counties
It is the Crown Jewel of our State-I do fear it is under attack
I would say athletics can definitely impact the academic side of the university, even if it’s indirect.
Didn’t Dean Smith say something along the lines of the basketball program being the front porch for the university? App State is a good local example. What would their application numbers look like without all of their football success in the last few decades?
Didn’t Dean Smith say something along the lines of the basketball program being the front porch for the university? App State is a good local example. What would their application numbers look like without all of their football success in the last few decades?
Your fear is justified.
The University is under attack.
The UNC System is under attack.
Each institution within the UNC System is under attack.
The last thing Art Pope and Phil Berger and Thom Tillis and the MAGA Pantheon want is an educated populace.
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To be fair, the question I responded to was not whether a school like Chicago should invest in sports to increase its endowment, or whether colleges can become elite without sports or if winning in sports improves a school's academic quality. It was has college sports ever helped the education budget. So my response was narrowly focused towards that.
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No doubt Athletic success equals increased applications-and therefore often higher standards etc
The $ in Athletics today is getting to be in a"burden" category to the University?
So, an isolated App State or ‘Bama with rare success in athletics can blind us to underfunding academics overall?
Not what I’m suggesting at all, but nice try.
What are you suggesting?
If you’re too stupid to understand my simple original comment then I can’t help you.
And, overall, college sports has sucked money away from college academics.
Has college sports “ever” helped a school’s academics? Likely.
Overall, pursuing the d00k or ‘Bama path is a losing path.