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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