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AZProgressive

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4. If you take an Economics of Sports class

Reply to LisaM (Reply #3)

Mon Jul 29, 2024, 11:56 AM

Jul 2024

You will learn the old model of not paying athletes fair market value doesn't really exist in other legitimate businesses. Athletes are labor that Universities & others make a boatload of money off of. It is only fair that labor is compensated fairly.

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NCAA sports deal set to transform college athletics [View all] RandySF Jul 2024 OP

cancel college inter school athletics. go back to intramural and let the rest be privatized for what it is. you msongs Jul 2024 #1

The highest paid public employee in most states is a football coach... Thunderbeast Jul 2024 #2

Those huge salaries aren't on the public dime. LisaM Jul 2024 #3

If you take an Economics of Sports class AZProgressive Jul 2024 #4