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[QUOTE="triplethrea, post: 139834, member: 1574"]
What pfister said. I don't think it's difficult to understand my viewpoint if you try.

What you brought up is completely different. Swimming does not generate the money basketball and football do. If it generates any profits from television, etc. I do believe the kids should be able to have some of it.

The degrees are valuable to a degree, of course. Maybe you get the impression that I think a college degree is worthless. I don't. I do believe it is less valuable than the people who claim "the kids should be happy with that". And it is getting less valuable as time goes by. Regardless of how valuable a scholarship is, if the player is worth more to the team than that scholarship, I believe the player should be entitled to more. Even if the scholarship is worth $1 million, if the player is worth $2 million to the team, he should get his cut.

If Syracuse generates $20 million more in profits this year than last year, and the difference being that this year we are #1, who is responsible for that added revenue? I say the players. Yet last year the players made 1 scholarship, and this year they get no raise, and stay at 1 scholarship. Where does that extra money go? You feel me? It's a dirty dirty dirty business. The fact that they hide behind morals like "purity of the student athlete" makes me sick.
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