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Message: [QUOTE="SU2NASA, post: 1100113, member: 800"] Your sarcasm meter is broken. These are non-profit universities. I've done research that's brought revenue to the school. I have zero problem with it since that revenue helps to build and improve facilities and the experience I got was invaluable for my career. By continually improving facilities you can do more and more ambitious work which increases the educational opportunities, brings in more and more talent, and raises the stature of the school. Athletic revenue does the same exact thing. Where do you think most of the this new revenue SU is bringing in because of the ACC is going? Things like the IPF, improvements to the Dome, locker rooms, football wing, etc. There are two people making salaries over a million in athletics. So outside of Shafer and Boeheim, who else at SU is getting so rich? Those are the people at SU supposedly getting rich off of the athletes. If you have a problem with that, then that's a debate over whether coaching salaries should be capped. That revenue allows SU to provide better facilities and infrastructure for its teams, and attract even better athletes. You can't consider anyone outside the university when discussing paying players. They're paying at the market rate, who it goes to is irrelevant to the debate. The question is, if you're going to pay players, what suffers? SU barely operates near the black. Do you cut non-revenue sports? Sacrifice in building and upgrading facilities? I maintain, if student athletes think there situation is so shitty, then don't do it. No one's forcing you to. You're getting a free education, free housing, free meals, which is more than the vast majority of students, many of whom are actually contributing to a useful skill to the university's mission with the same time that any athlete puts in. I've done it, I have zero sympathy for their supposed plight. If they want the money, give them what the cost to the university is and let them blow it how they want, but give them no access to academics. Boom, there's $75K per year. Do with it what you want and see what serves you better. [/QUOTE]

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