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[QUOTE="Scooch, post: 5203314, member: 628"]
I respect anyone who walks away when they're on the young(ish) side.  Just as I lose respect for people who hang on, and on, and on, and on.

In all honesty, if schools don't have the revenue to pay their athletes and maintain programs, then maybe they should be getting out of the business of collegiate athletics.

I'm thrilled that kids have the opportunity to use sports as a means to attend college.  My own kid is going to do so at the D3 level next year.  But that doesn't necessarily mean they should be getting full-ride athletics scholarships, and the university should be funding expensive, money-losing sports programs, if they can't afford it.

I hate to say this, but if SU doesn't have the money to pay its players, then the obvious solution is to not field those teams.

Re: my Celtics point... Obviously, ticket revenue is one of the diversified revenue streams that enables a pro team to pay its players, along with media deals, sponsorships, merchandise, and the like.  Players are [I]guaranteed[/I] a percentage of team revenue to receive in salaries per their CBA.

The price of a ticket, like the price of a t-shirt, is an exchange of value between buyer and seller.  A team doesn't solicit their fan base to donate money to pay players they can't otherwise afford via their revenue streams.  That's preposterous on its face, and yet it has become [I][U]the model[/U][/I] for college sports.
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