I agree that a lot of college football coaches are overpaid, but the programs also bring in lots of money. It would be nice if they spent more of it on the kids who risk their health to generate it, instead of making a national issue of whether someone got money for signing autographs. But the NCAA needs to maintain its image of integrity, or something. :/
The college sports (that can lead to a career in one of the major professional leagues) strikes me as a form of a lottery. A lot of young men are putting themselves at risk in the hopes that they'll make it to the pros and a big payday, and many of them don't have a backup plan. Guys like Detroit Lions wide receiver Calvin Johnson (who went to college for an engineering degree) seem like the rare exceptions who make sure to have a viable option in case they don't make it. And the ones who do often spend the money they earn with no consideration for their future. There are too many Andre Risons out there and too few Carson Palmers.
The college sports (that can lead to a career in one of the major professional leagues) strikes me as a form of a lottery. A lot of young men are putting themselves at risk in the hopes that they'll make it to the pros and a big payday, and many of them don't have a backup plan. Guys like Detroit Lions wide receiver Calvin Johnson (who went to college for an engineering degree) seem like the rare exceptions who make sure to have a viable option in case they don't make it. And the ones who do often spend the money they earn with no consideration for their future. There are too many Andre Risons out there and too few Carson Palmers.
"Well, evolution is a theory. It is also a fact. And facts and theories are different things, not rungs in a hierarchy of increasing certainty. Facts are the world's data. Theories are structures of ideas that explain and interpret facts. Facts don't go away when scientists debate rival theories to explain them. Einstein's theory of gravitation replaced Newton's in this century, but apples didn't suspend themselves in midair, pending the outcome. And humans evolved from ape- like ancestors whether they did so by Darwin's proposed mechanism or by some other yet to be discovered."
-Stephen Jay Gould
-Stephen Jay Gould
