This got me thinking... is there any other nation on earth that has such an extensive, revenue-driven, athletic system in their universities?
Carleton University in Ottawa is a private university that actually has more students than SU. They were "The Powerhouse" in men's basketball in Canada up until the last season orvtwo. In some years they possibly would be good enough to win a few rounds in March Madness. They play in a gym similar to most high schools in CNY.
Just about all state schools have to have separate fundraising for athletics. Not very many of the non-P5 sports are playing in new stadiums, unless a sugar daddy/mommy has paid for them. their non-revs play regionally. The MAC schools, for example, don't fly their field hockey teams out to play Iowa, like UVa did one time. Their support facilities are not as good as the P5's. Private schools are a totally different animal. How sports and sports facilities are funded is their prerogative and no outsider is looking over their shoulder to question it. I believe posters here have said the indoor practice facility is one of the first major facility upgrades paid for with ACC money. I think there are a lot of things not obvious to those not currently on campus that SU can now have with the ACC money that they didn't have before, like better food, weight rooms, more than one strength and conditioning coach, etc.
It still was not a national speed limit as some states said, "keep your money" and kept their speed limits. The speed limit was still set by each state; just most states acquiesced to the federal demand to lower the speed limit in order to get more federal funds.
In addition to what TexanMark said, universities in other parts of the world don't have the competition levels we do partly because of the extensive club system for sports in their countries. I would hazard a guess that soccer at Oxford is barely above the intramural level here because anyone with any soccer ability approaching what we have at our collegiate level is either playing for a low division pro/semi-pro club or in the academy system of one of the EPL teams.
Similar to the pressure congress put on states to raise the drinking age to 21.
But as Carolina proved - the colleges aren't meeting their end of the bargain in providing the education. The players haven't created this mess in my opinion. The schools did because they got addicted to the money and didn't see or anticipate the gravy train running out. Also, the school may be putting out enormous amounts of cash on players with the legal benefits allowed, however it obviously is worth it as they keep doing it and are fighting tooth and nail to keep the status quo. Sonny Vaccaro was right - schools are greedy. They can act as if they are taking the high road but they would reach down to save a nickel just like everyone else.
I can't wait to see the legislation that includes a provision about "ridiculous" profits. Courts are going to love interpreting that! Or maybe you can draw a line, and then people will know they had better not generate one dollar more in revenue, else they'd be in the ridiculous category.
When I write a legal filing/response trust me I wouldn’t talk the way I do when I post.
I want a media reporter(hint Syracuse.com writers who read here for their stories) to verify that Jim Boeheim statement.
How about those kids get actual full scholarships since lacrosse scholarships are typically split up.OK - it's a start
How about lax? There are kids all over Northern Virginia wearing Syracuse lax gear, wearing #22. Outside of a random UVa kid, you don't see anything else. How does Chase Scanlon do in the marketplace next to the kid who left SU for Notre Dame?
Don't know about the other grants, but Lax has 12.6 scholarships to distribute to the entire team. There's not that much money to give anyone a total free ride.
So basically the players can’t go to dining halls. They have to have food provided by the AD and use the meal money given to them to pay for anything else.
