I don't buy that mid-majors aren't getting crushed by NIL, and the NCAA tournament shined a great light on that. Upsets were at an extreme premium. I see the talk around my mid-major, Butler University, and they're hurting to compete. Despite having an absolute mecca of college basketball in Hinkle Fieldhouse, the paradigm has shifted from recruiting for education and basketball prowess to recruitment for a job at the school in the form of NIL payments. NIL has tainted hoops, no doubt. I'm not saying it isn't justified, but the game has changed dramatically. Same goes for football. I have had huge respect for Coach Prime but it's hard watching the show at Colorado.
As for federal funding to the Uni's. Forget about it. Let them compete.
Since the athletes are getting paid no more scholarships let them pay their own way and give the money to a more worthy student. And as far as aid to colleges most of the big schools have billions of dollars in there endowment funds. All's they are is an indoctrination school just like the public grade and high schools are. No more federal money until they clean up their act. Look at the Chicago public schools the students come out and cant even read or write. They spend billions of dollars on them and they come out stupid!!!!!
It would be interesting to see if a university can have a competitive sports program while at the same time having a competitive and sought after educational program(s).
Forgot to put this in the post. If I am a decent college player and I am not good enough for the pros but still very very good, why not transfer to a place like Northwestern and get into the MBA program?
Absolutely. There used to be a famous race car and engine guru named Smokey Yunick. His principle areas of expertise were NASCAR and road racing. One of his mottos for racers was you need a pair and a spare engine. One engine to qualify, one to race and one to shoe into the car if your primary race engine blew up. So always have a backup plan or two if your primary plan fails.
"But, taking a step back and examining trillions of dollars sent to them isn’t a bad idea when the country is running a massive budget deficit" Examining trillions sent has nothing to do with our deficit. Money spent poorly is always bad no matter if we have a deficit or surplus.
Now that we've acknowledged that college sports are professional (everyone from players to coaches to trainers to athletic directors are now getting paid for their performance), let's take the next step, just as we do for the major professional sports --
-- tax them.
Pro players pay taxes. Pro sports teams pay taxes (at the very least, they find ingenious ways not to do so). When ESPN forks over a couple billion to a pro sport, that money is (theoretically) taxed. So now it's okay to tax (theoretically again) the money ESPN forks over to broadcast a college bowl game or the NCAA 64.
Players now receive NIL? Introduce them to FICA.
College sports are no longer amateur sporting contests. Tax them.
They are taxed. It's income. Pro athletes see big contracts, but no one sees that they pay an agent a percentage, an accountant a percentage, and they pay local tax. When a team from Florida plays in Cali, because the money was earned in Cali they pay Cali income tax. Same probably goes for college. California has said they don't want their schools playing in states that have anti-LGBT or pro-life laws...wait until athletes on teams say they don't want to play in Cali or NYC due to taxes
Are college bowl games, Final Four, etc., taxed? My understanding is that the conferences, NCAA, universities, etc are not taxed on their income because they are (har-har) "non-profit". ESPN pays them but they don't pay taxes. Under my proposal that would change.
The NHL has a big problem with players shunning Canada due to the taxes. Zero tax states like FL, TN, and TX have a leg up on the NHL salary cap. A player could accept a slightly lower contract in a zero tax state simply because of the tax advantage.
Stop the hifalutin, grant research grift. Dismantle the student loan subsidy. Tax the Universities’ endowment earnings. Do away with the transfer window.
Penalties being levied against universities are at least as much, if not more so, about failures to deal appropriately and effectively with anti-Semitism than the DEI ignorance, which unfortunately also reinforced anti-Semitism and anti-white and anti-heterosexual male teaching. In that regard I must give a lot of credit to Representative Elise Stefanik, returning to Congress or staying in Congress rather than accepting the position as our UN Ambassador, and Rep. Virginia Foxx, both of whom had very receptive staffs when I reached out to them over the past year and a half to fight campus anti-semitism. Foxx is responsible for heeding my calls and the calls of friends of mine to bring forth President Michael Schill of Northwestern and absolutely rake him over the calls in front of Congress for slow walking an investigation into the assault of a Jewish student on campus.
Obviously, you know the success that Stefanik had destroying the Presidentsof Colombia and MIT and others.
I will do my best to hold them accountable for allowing conservative speakers on campuses without harassment, but I'm not exactly holding my breath, based on my experiences with the career DC beltway hack politicians.
We do have the right to demand universities refrain from teaching certain subject matters. When a professor teaches that it's okay to incite violence, that is wrong. It has been taking place and it still is taking place.
I don't buy that mid-majors aren't getting crushed by NIL, and the NCAA tournament shined a great light on that. Upsets were at an extreme premium. I see the talk around my mid-major, Butler University, and they're hurting to compete. Despite having an absolute mecca of college basketball in Hinkle Fieldhouse, the paradigm has shifted from recruiting for education and basketball prowess to recruitment for a job at the school in the form of NIL payments. NIL has tainted hoops, no doubt. I'm not saying it isn't justified, but the game has changed dramatically. Same goes for football. I have had huge respect for Coach Prime but it's hard watching the show at Colorado.
As for federal funding to the Uni's. Forget about it. Let them compete.
Since the athletes are getting paid no more scholarships let them pay their own way and give the money to a more worthy student. And as far as aid to colleges most of the big schools have billions of dollars in there endowment funds. All's they are is an indoctrination school just like the public grade and high schools are. No more federal money until they clean up their act. Look at the Chicago public schools the students come out and cant even read or write. They spend billions of dollars on them and they come out stupid!!!!!
There should be year end tournaments for colleges that don’t pay NILs. Fans would watch, and I think it would be fun.
This would be like weightlifting events for weightlifters that don’t use steroids.
I think they call that Division 3. But the broader point might be levels of NIL and segment tournaments
Ha ha! Let’s rename it the Amateur Division.
It would be interesting to see if a university can have a competitive sports program while at the same time having a competitive and sought after educational program(s).
Forgot to put this in the post. If I am a decent college player and I am not good enough for the pros but still very very good, why not transfer to a place like Northwestern and get into the MBA program?
Absolutely. There used to be a famous race car and engine guru named Smokey Yunick. His principle areas of expertise were NASCAR and road racing. One of his mottos for racers was you need a pair and a spare engine. One engine to qualify, one to race and one to shoe into the car if your primary race engine blew up. So always have a backup plan or two if your primary plan fails.
"But, taking a step back and examining trillions of dollars sent to them isn’t a bad idea when the country is running a massive budget deficit" Examining trillions sent has nothing to do with our deficit. Money spent poorly is always bad no matter if we have a deficit or surplus.
https://x.com/ThomasSowell/status/1911108488442290602 Students walk out to protest Trump...
Now that we've acknowledged that college sports are professional (everyone from players to coaches to trainers to athletic directors are now getting paid for their performance), let's take the next step, just as we do for the major professional sports --
-- tax them.
Pro players pay taxes. Pro sports teams pay taxes (at the very least, they find ingenious ways not to do so). When ESPN forks over a couple billion to a pro sport, that money is (theoretically) taxed. So now it's okay to tax (theoretically again) the money ESPN forks over to broadcast a college bowl game or the NCAA 64.
Players now receive NIL? Introduce them to FICA.
College sports are no longer amateur sporting contests. Tax them.
I like this idea, but aren’t taxes already levied on NILs? It can’t be free money.
They are taxed. It's income. Pro athletes see big contracts, but no one sees that they pay an agent a percentage, an accountant a percentage, and they pay local tax. When a team from Florida plays in Cali, because the money was earned in Cali they pay Cali income tax. Same probably goes for college. California has said they don't want their schools playing in states that have anti-LGBT or pro-life laws...wait until athletes on teams say they don't want to play in Cali or NYC due to taxes
Are college bowl games, Final Four, etc., taxed? My understanding is that the conferences, NCAA, universities, etc are not taxed on their income because they are (har-har) "non-profit". ESPN pays them but they don't pay taxes. Under my proposal that would change.
do not know about bowls etc
The NHL has a big problem with players shunning Canada due to the taxes. Zero tax states like FL, TN, and TX have a leg up on the NHL salary cap. A player could accept a slightly lower contract in a zero tax state simply because of the tax advantage.
Stop the hifalutin, grant research grift. Dismantle the student loan subsidy. Tax the Universities’ endowment earnings. Do away with the transfer window.
Penalties being levied against universities are at least as much, if not more so, about failures to deal appropriately and effectively with anti-Semitism than the DEI ignorance, which unfortunately also reinforced anti-Semitism and anti-white and anti-heterosexual male teaching. In that regard I must give a lot of credit to Representative Elise Stefanik, returning to Congress or staying in Congress rather than accepting the position as our UN Ambassador, and Rep. Virginia Foxx, both of whom had very receptive staffs when I reached out to them over the past year and a half to fight campus anti-semitism. Foxx is responsible for heeding my calls and the calls of friends of mine to bring forth President Michael Schill of Northwestern and absolutely rake him over the calls in front of Congress for slow walking an investigation into the assault of a Jewish student on campus.
Obviously, you know the success that Stefanik had destroying the Presidentsof Colombia and MIT and others.
I will do my best to hold them accountable for allowing conservative speakers on campuses without harassment, but I'm not exactly holding my breath, based on my experiences with the career DC beltway hack politicians.
We do have the right to demand universities refrain from teaching certain subject matters. When a professor teaches that it's okay to incite violence, that is wrong. It has been taking place and it still is taking place.