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. _____________________________________________________________________ Ryan Robbins "Nothing in fine print is ever good news." University of Maine -- Andy Rooney _____________________________________________________________________ [log in to unmask] ____________________________________________ http://maine.maine.edu/~rrobbi32/____________________________________ HOCKEY-L is for discussion of college ice hockey; send information to [log in to unmask], The College Hockey Information List.