Wilfork Issues Statement on NCAA Investigation

[upstater1]

I don't think he did anything wrong personally, these guys do all the work and everyone else makes all the money and gets all the benefits? There's a word for that.

They do get something in return.

 

[patsfaninpittsburgh]

Just a Q: since TAs and others bring far more money to a university, will they also be provided with extras? Or is this money only for athletes?

I for one don't buy the idea that they make not enough money to live on. When all your books and food and housing is paid for, including a transportation allowance for getting to school, then surely you can get a 10-15 hour a week summer job to give you more cushion (the vast majority of players do get that summer job). Or heck, they are eligible for subsidized student loans.

It should be lost on no one that one of the chief complainers about not receiving money enough to live on was Chris Webber, complaining while he was raking in hundreds of thousands of dollars.

TA's?

Who cares. Where exactly are the stories about boosters giving money and priviledges to TA's?

How many TA's are on TV representing their university at a BCS TA game?

You also might want to delve into the history of athletes and "summer job" scandals that seem to surface rather frequently.

I guess you would want TA's deciding which car dealership jobs are bogus.

 

[xmarkd400x]

Alshon Jeffery, College Football, South Carolina Game****s - 08.18.11 - SI Vault

 

[NinjaZX6R]

Alshon Jeffery, College Football, South Carolina Game****s - 08.18.11 - SI Vault

Ok...what does that pic have to do with this topic?

 

[upstater1]

TA's?

Who cares. Where exactly are the stories about boosters giving money and priviledges to TA's?

How many TA's are on TV representing their university at a BCS TA game?

You also might want to delve into the history of athletes and "summer job" scandals that seem to surface rather frequently.

I guess you would want TA's deciding which car dealership jobs are bogus.

What a bizarre post.

I showed how I as a TA brought in $500k in income to the university through teaching. I was expendable though and that's why I agreed to it. Just like football players. Outside the university, my TA teaching skills were worth very little money (I could probably scrape by doing it in a variety of businesses). Inside the university, I was generating $500k. That's because the clientele is captured in a sense.

Just like a football player. Outside the university, no one would go to see him play.

The argument that people don't pay to watch a professor is more than bogus. As though $$ is only generated on pay-per-view TV. These football schools have people generating billions of dollars in research that totally dwarfs athletic income.

The point I was making is that the university exploits a lot of people in labor. Why are you making special considerations for football players when they bring in less money than others who are exploited. At every school in the nation, you have 60% of research dollars going into the general fund (indeed, subsidizing the cost per student of each and every football player), and on a great many of those subjects, you have research assistants doing valuable work, and earning relatively little compared to football players. The amount of revenue a school generates through patents alone again dwarfs athletics.