Texas offered Saban the max-$100million plus :ohlawd:

[unit321]

athletic boosters only care about athletics, the other alumni are for the rest of the school

Yeah I know. It's like they don't have anything better to do with thousands of dollars.

Oklahoma State football had boosters giving money to player/athletes. Straight up cash.
OSU has a whole cute page on booster activity rules. http://www.okstate.com/compliance/boosters.html
Boosters danced around the rules. Hiring players to mow the lawn or not even anything. Just pretend they did a job and pay them.

 

[L&HH]

But the ones directly profiting from it shouldn't have to pay the labor?

If the school feels that their "scholarship" is reimbursement enough and the athlete agrees to that, then that's totally fine with me. Both parties reached a mutually agreed upon exchange. Now obviously there will be schools that would offer money on top o the scholarship, and that's totally fine with me as well. All I'm saying is it just shouldn't be against any rules for athletes to accept money or gifts from anyone, whether it be the school, booster, sponsor or whomever. It should be wide open.

 

[unit321]

Well some of them do put money towards the academics. The business school is named after McCombs. Also some of that athletic money is used to support other programs. Not the booster money, but the booster money helps bring in athletic revenue which then can be allocated elsewhere....im assuming..

I know about booster programs and non-booster programs. I'm just saying its kind of a travesty they don't put more towards academic financial aid.

 

[unit321]

"Blue Chips" is a fun movie about college basketball and boosters. It's an old movie so it may be hard to find.

 

[L&HH]

I know about booster programs and non-booster programs. I'm just saying its kind of a travesty they don't put more towards academic financial aid.

I'm going off topic here but, I believe the purpose of college has long been b*stardized anyways. The values of the educations have gone to complete shyt and the entire purpose has been screwed up greatly.

 

[Field Marshall Bradley]

well maybe they should take college serious then

yeah traveling for free playing other colleges and fukking every girl u see and they should get paid

 

[unit321]

I'm going off topic here but, I believe the purpose of college has long been b*stardized anyways. The values of the educations have gone to complete shyt and the entire purpose has been screwed up greatly.

I don't agree with that 100%.
For non-athlete students, it's all about education.
For student-athletes, even at Div III schools, there are certain concessions that the schools allow in order for the student to comply academically. Like if you are part of a who-cares Div III diving program, the school doesn't give a rat's booty about you. You need to go to class, do your homework and take your tests. If you are part of an illustrious ice hockey program, the professors let your test scores be based on a different scale and homework assignments can be handed in whenever. In Div I, you don't even need to take tests, attend classes or anything. Just sign up for the class.

 

[L&HH]

I don't agree with that 100%.
For non-athlete students, it's all about education.
For student-athletes, even at Div III schools, there are certain concessions that the schools allow in order for the student to comply academically. Like if you are part of a who-cares Div III diving program, the school doesn't give a rat's booty about you. You need to go to class, do your homework and take your tests. If you are part of an illustrious ice hockey program, the professors let your test scores be based on a different scale and homework assignments can be handed in whenever. In Div I, you don't even need to take tests, attend classes or anything. Just sign up for the class.

Let me clarify my point. I don't really care about athletes and what they're "learning" because in general I don't believe there's any real "learning" going on in college anyways. It's pretty much just become an everyman free for all. Do whatever you have to do in order to get what you want to get out of it. Whether you actually care about expanding on your education, networking, just want to get a job, just need something to get your parents off your ass, etc.

 

[gho3st]

These things should go without saying. It's play money to these guys. Sports is a great american pastime. As a sports fan, I know if I was worth 100s of MM's I would donate to my schools athletics so we can win as well. I'm sure a majority of people on thecoli would do the same if put in that position.

I got no desire to live vicariously through athletes

 

[hood b. goode]

the texas athletic department has more money than 75% of african countries, it's insane

 

[L&HH]

I got no desire to live vicariously through athletes

Then why do you post in this section? Are you not a sports fan?

 

[gho3st]

Then why do you post in this section? Are you not a sports fan?

It doesn't cost me any money except 20 minutes

 

[wheywhey]

I don't agree with that 100%.
For non-athlete students, it's all about education.
For student-athletes, even at Div III schools, there are certain concessions that the schools allow in order for the student to comply academically. Like if you are part of a who-cares Div III diving program, the school doesn't give a rat's booty about you. You need to go to class, do your homework and take your tests. If you are part of an illustrious ice hockey program, the professors let your test scores be based on a different scale and homework assignments can be handed in whenever. In Div I, you don't even need to take tests, attend classes or anything. Just sign up for the class.

Not all non-athletes are in college for education. Many go to party or base their decision on the level of sports available. On a pre-med forum there was a person choosing med schools that were affiliated with Div I football and basketball. The pre-med student said she couldn't go to Penn State because their medical school was not located in State College where the games were.

It's well-known that some people want to get into elite universities simply to network and make connections.

Even serious students just see college as a trade school. They aren't there purely for the sake of learning, which is what the original intent of college was. They get bombarded with info that college grads make $1 million more in their lifetime over high school grads, so that is why many people are there.

 

[unit321]

Let me clarify my point. I don't really care about athletes and what they're "learning" because in general I don't believe there's any real "learning" going on in college anyways. It's pretty much just become an everyman free for all. Do whatever you have to do in order to get what you want to get out of it. Whether you actually care about expanding on your education, networking, just want to get a job, just need something to get your parents off your ass, etc.

I have two degrees, business management and computer science. I got the business degree first. Later on, I went back and got the computer science degree.
I'll say that I learned more real world stuff from the computer science education than the business management education. The business degree felt like I learned jack squat. I looked at all my accounting major peers (after graduation) and knew I lost because they had learned real stuff and they got real jobs afterwards. In management, you learn how to manage depending on your industry, it's all about experience. Everything is management classes was fluff. I took some hotel management classes as electives. Those were even fluffier/BS classes. If you couldn't get an A, you were straight up retarded or lazy. And that's where I saw how ice hockey players got treated. My school had a pretty good program. They made it to the championship game in my freshman year, as in Div III ice hockey teams across the US. Professors letting them goof off in the back of the classroom like it was high school.
We also had a so-so basketball program. They sucked. Free games, no tickets to pay for. Stands were less than half full. Those student/athletes got zero-preferential treatment.

 

[L&HH]

It doesn't cost me any money except 20 minutes

So you don't buy jerseys or any team merchandise or memorabilia? Tickets to watch the game? Hell you watching your team on tv means your spending money.

These rich guys have the means to give up their money. I understand if you're not balling like that, neither am I. But I bet if you had 100 million you'd be doing no different than what these guys are doing.