How Big-Time Sports Ate College Life

Ohio State University has 17 National Academy of Arts and Sciences, 3 Nobel Laureates, 8 Pulitzer Prize Winners, 35 Guggenheim Scholars and MacArthur Prize Winners. However, sports rules

"No," Oh, yeah, Ohio State University, that is a wonderful physics department. "This is football," said Gordon Oberbrecht, ohio physics professor.

Last month, Ohio State University hired Urban Meyer and joined the $ 4 million football award annually (an additional $ 25,000 in the B.C.S. National Championship, a graduation rate of over 80%, a value of $ 150,000). He personally uses a private jet

Dr. Aubrecht stated that there was not enough funds within his budget to cover the cost of attending the meeting. "From a business point of view, he knows why he hired Mayer, but said that the package contained further evidence that the tail is waving his head.

• As we all know, college sports has brought great benefits to American universities. In particular, the main contributors are soccer and men's basketball. So are these sports players of great value, or are they satisfied with the scholarship for college degrees? But then a water ball player, baseball player, or all women's sports team. Now consider the amount you pay for the powerful quarterback of the football team compared to the girls basketball point guard. I made this comparison to explain the following points.

There is also a question of what a small university will do. Four years ago, I thought that the cost of university sports increased in college days, so that in small schools we will rethink football's role. This is an expensive sport. I may think that they may decide not to highlight sports anymore, they are probably part of the first part and I do not think they are competing with the Power 5 conference. However, I found out that I was wrong. After the attendance fee was approved, universities other than Power 5 almost agreed that they still succeeded in paying the players despite their strict sports budget. If you set a salary limit, you will find methods of payment at universities other than Power 5. I do not think that this is the best result, but the net profit due to the payroll limit exceeds it.

Television is welcome. Murray Speer, author of "Beer and Circus: How the University Times Breaks College Era College Education" Murray Speer stated that more and more professional university sports are attracting more non-athletes It is. "Media coverage entered the heads of children," he said. "When they are ready to pick a university it will be a bigger factor than history." Over the past decade, the number of ESPN channel college football basketball games has increased from 491 to 1,320. This does not include games indicated by competitors. Big 10 Network, Fox, CBS / Turner, Versus, NBC. All of these programming means large games scheduled this week, television staff on campus, deadlock, and rear campus.