Highest paid public employee makes 11 million dollar a year

[WildRose]

What percentage of HS and College athletes die as result of participating in athletics?

Provide a legitimate source please.

[WildRose]

If they want to get paid they don’t need to be playing “amateur sports”.

[Oryx]

@WuWei

They are getting a free college education.

Some are. But how much is a college education worth at a state school? 50k divided over four years? Meanwhile, the coaches are getting paid millions of dollars a year to stand on the sidelines.

[Oryx]

@WildRose

If they want to get paid they don’t need to be playing “amateur sports”.

The NBA won’t sign players until they’re 19 years old. The NFL requires players to have been out of high school for at least three years before being drafted.

[Eagle-Keeper]

@WildRose

Basketball and football pay for all of the others with a whole lot leftover.

I went to a small but very successful school where the football and baseball programs combined produced something like 25x what was required to run the programs.

The bigger the school and the higher profile their men’s Bball and Fball programs are the higher percentage of total revenues they produce.

I’m sure that varies from school to school. Nonetheless it is not smart business to run sports programs that lose the school money. All the extra revenue should go to making the cost of tuition more affordable. At least that is my view.