(12-08-2017 02:00 PM)Wedge Wrote:  

(12-08-2017 01:47 PM)JRsec Wrote:  Except it won't be, and really can't be treated severally. I could see it divided out with other revenue sports, and AllTideUp suggested that tax liability be reduced by the amounts that subsidize non revenue sports so I could easily see that as well. But ArkansasStFan said a mouthful when he noted the 100 plus smaller schools which for the sake of basketball made the move up to grab cash they really didn't earn.

That farce should have been addressed ages ago. But as with any bureaucracy the NCAA utilized that socialism to make their endowment 1 Billion & growing and used it to justify staff increases.

What it boils down to is the conclusion of that article I linked to above: The powers-that-be who have it good under the current system (successful programs, lots of revenue) "would rather wring their hands and live with a broken system than do the work of changing it."

And that's why I said it would take the nudge of the Feds with regard to taxes to make it happen but if / when it does we are all better off for it. Sports are healthy and important to the development of character and the integration of keeping the body in shape with the mind. For profit sports certainly doesn't participate in the philosophy of keeping both the mind and body in shape, and non profit sports are way over emphasized without having the funding support in their own right.

Taxing the revenue sports will shine a spotlight on a century old hypocrisy. We use the brawn of the less academic to support the athletic niches of the more academic. Both positions are wrong. Let the parents of the non revenues help to support them and tax those who make their sport a profession.