What is the Point

[GoSU96]

I've never really understood why there are non-revenue college sports.

Revenue sports (at least in theory) make money that could be used for other needed things and promote the college.

Good lord

 

[Jcuse_44]

Winter of my Sophomore year. A 4-5 person extremely inebriated collection of miscreants decided to build a snow sculpture depicting an anatomically correct set of male genitalia on the Watson quad. In those days it was open on the University Place side. It was about 8 feet tall.

I may or may not have been involved. There is really no way to know.

Hence... "dick in Michigan"?

 

[Toga]

I've never really understood why there are non-revenue college sports.

Revenue sports (at least in theory) make money that could be used for other needed things and promote the college.

Dr. Gross would be appalled.

 

[SU68]

What I’m about to suggest will make some posters pass out, but I would be OK with going to class being officially optional for scholarship athletes.

Meaning, if you want to play a sport while simultaneously getting an education for free, then great it’s there for you. But if you’re someone like Melo or a highly paid NIL player who knows ahead of time he is just passing through for a year on the way to the pros, they can “opt out” of educational requirements and simply be an athlete that represents the university.

Carolina did that for years with their fake classes.

 

[Cuseregular]

Carolina did that for years with their fake classes.

Which always when this comes up we must post the greatest line in the history of the NCAA…………

That “the NCAA was so upset at North Carolina and the fake curriculum they created for their athletes that they gave Syracuse an extra six months of probation!”

 

[AlaskaSU]

"Not in my wheelhouse."

 

[djcon57]

I am not interested in Syracuse fielding a paid team. Why would these employees need to even go to class? They are not students. No other employees go to class. Why would an educational institution be in the business of minor league professional sports? If the pros want farm teams they should own them.

So don’t watch? Problem solved. Maybe it’s just not for you anymore….and that’s ok.