Matt Wickey <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
 
>        The NC$$ spends *a lot* of time and energy making sure student
>        athletes don't get preferential treatment over non-athletes.
>        Why, then, are they not concerned with college coaches
>        and even universities exploiting their public status for
>        monetary gain?
 
Coaches are professionals. They are in college athletics because it's their
job. The NCAA's goal is to ensure student-athletes are legitimate students.
Student-athletes should be attending college primarily to get an education,
not to use athletics as a stepping stone to get into the pros.
 
 
 
> Is it fair to other university professors
>        that the relatively uneducated basketball coach can make
>        lucrative endorsements for Taco Bell just because of his
>        popularity?
 
There's nothing stopping a professor from signing a lucrative book deal
or what-have-you. Alan Dershowitz is a professor of law at Harvard and
he gets a lot of notoriety for being tops in his profession.
 
 
 
 
 
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