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Edgar Mkhitaryan
11 October 2020 - 13:24 PM
From my perspective, when we're talking about revenue sports, like basketball and football, yes, schools should pay the athletes, however they should also quit pretending that they are also full-time…
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kennedy croft
6 August 2018 - 06:16 AM
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The End To Amateurism In The NCAACollegiate athletes are undoubtedly some of the most industrious human beings. Not only are they expected to excel in the classroom, but they also…
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Kzandra Kehrer
5 December 2017 - 19:29 PM
i do not think that we should be paying them because some
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DukeNukemDesign .
4 December 2017 - 12:17 PM
The entire college system spends about half a trillion dollars annually. How exactly is that going to be free?
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DukeNukemDesign .
4 December 2017 - 12:13 PM
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Bit late to this party, but few debates have left me so infuriated with how disingenuous a debater is. This one left me infuriated with how disingenuous two debaters are.…
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Jeremy Anderson
21 November 2017 - 18:16 PM
Consider it imagined. Now realize this, college isnt free for everyone and this liberal wave you are expecting to take power probably wont give us free education any more than…
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Paul Hutton
8 November 2017 - 06:40 AM
Make college free? It is well believed that if you made college free you, unless you used an access qualifier (like they do in Japan), where there are colleges for…
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Joseph Rudmin
6 November 2017 - 16:32 PM
Thank you for your inspired reply, Patrick McGinnis. Yes, we could all live better without the plunderful military industrial complex. The least the US can do is accept immigrants and…
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Roberto Duffy
6 November 2017 - 15:44 PM
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Mr. McGinnes, your "what if" is as big as the Grand Canyon. We are dealing with today's reality. It is what it is.
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Patrick McGinnes
6 November 2017 - 07:45 AM
Ok. Imagine this. Full ride college education for everyone for 70 billion, for the low low price, of only bombing as many people as Obama bombed, and not how much…
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Patrick McGinnes
6 November 2017 - 07:41 AM
Imagine this. College education is now free for everyone.What happens to your opinion now that education and athletics are uncoupled and there's a ton of money floating around?
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Patrick McGinnes
6 November 2017 - 07:39 AM
Ok we make college free... and what happens to your opinion now? Now suddenly sports aren't adjunct. Now they aren't a huge issue. Now someone can do 5 class hours…
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Patrick McGinnes
6 November 2017 - 07:36 AM
What if they just make college free? What happens to the money then when the money is now freed up to do any number of things?
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Patrick McGinnes
6 November 2017 - 07:36 AM
Are you still for abolishing Football if college was free? Rounding errors in waste being rerouted and a possible progressive populism wave in 2018 can make this a reality.What happens…
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Patrick McGinnes
6 November 2017 - 07:32 AM
Imagine we were going to make college free for everyone within the next 5 years from next election (2018 has a progressive/liberal wave of challengers that makes the Tea Party…
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Patrick McGinnes
6 November 2017 - 07:30 AM
What happens when college is free?
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Patrick McGinnes
6 November 2017 - 07:29 AM
Well do I have a treat for you. I am going on a rant and commenting on every discussion about free education for all, how easy it could be to implement,…
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Patrick McGinnes
6 November 2017 - 07:25 AM
We could easily, absolutely 100% easily just make college free. We authorized 70 billion dollars more in spending every year for a decade, and estimates are every man woman and…
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Patrick McGinnes
6 November 2017 - 07:17 AM
I'm just shocked there was no talk about what happens when college is made free. Hilary ran on it. Bernie ran on it, we can EASILY afford it without negatively…
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Patrick McGinnes
6 November 2017 - 07:13 AM
Not sure why it gets rid of paragraph formatting. Sorry for the wall. Glad I use my line method with the TL:DR at least.
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Patrick McGinnes
6 November 2017 - 07:11 AM
Below the line is merely justification for the stuff above it can be skipped unless you want to fight my premise in the top portion.TL:DR version - What is the…
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Tom Huffman
3 November 2017 - 02:04 AM
There were a couple of points that didn't get made well. 1) Not all college athletes get a scholarship, let alone a full ride. Many college athletes receive $500 per…
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Roberto Duffy
29 October 2017 - 20:00 PM
No problem that belongs to a system can be solved in isolation. …
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Nicholas Peck
28 October 2017 - 19:22 PM
That is one of the points the FOR side can use as well. The fact that there are universities that exist with a for profit athletics model should be detached…
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Phil Hahn
25 October 2017 - 17:06 PM
The AGAINST side never mentioned the most compelling reason not to pay athletes, which is, that every dollar the institution pays to athletes is not going toward the education of…
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Ezra Taylor
25 October 2017 - 00:14 AM
Simple question. Why not let the student chose if he/she wants a financial or other type of payment?
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Yazan Madanat 1
24 October 2017 - 23:12 PM
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Anthony Crudup
24 October 2017 - 22:47 PM
What I will say is schools use athletic department(college basketball/college football especially) as marketing arms to drive up attendance for academia and drive up donations to academia. And the same…
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Keith Grace
21 October 2017 - 15:57 PM
Roberto Duffy, not Robert, my apologies...
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Keith Grace
21 October 2017 - 15:52 PM
I’m a big college football fan... but I cannot in good conscience disagree with you Robert Duffy. Football especially is a plantation system rooted in social injustice.
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Keith Grace
21 October 2017 - 15:50 PM
Big revenue sports like football and men’s basketball are run with a plantation mentality. The least that can be done is compensating them. Those who claim these kids already get…
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Paul Hutton
14 October 2017 - 05:22 AM
Do away with college football? Might as well give up Mom's Apple Pie and Halloween. There is nothing wrong with athletic competition between schools. It builds esprit de corps among…
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Roberto Duffy
13 October 2017 - 17:07 PM
Sorry my last post is impossible to read - Second Post – Let’s get real for a moment. No U.…
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Roberto Duffy
13 October 2017 - 17:05 PM
Second Post – …
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Paul Hutton
12 October 2017 - 21:09 PM
I oppose the proposition that paying student athletes is either justified or beneficial to the students. Based on the concept that college sports are an adjunct to the role…
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Mary Rotella
12 October 2017 - 23:12 PM
The question of whether or not to pay student athletes is not cut and dried. When we're talking about revenue sports, like Div I Men's basketball and football, then yes,…
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Roberto Duffy
12 October 2017 - 15:55 PM
I am not one to shy away from a debate, however, I have a more basic position –> …
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Joseph Rudmin
12 October 2017 - 15:41 PM
I strongly favor paying college athletes, especially since they put their bodies and brains at great risk. I would expect that most of them would focus exclusively on their sport,…
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Robert Lawson
6 October 2017 - 21:02 PM
College sports generates millions of dollars in revenue for the university, television networks, and a whole value chain of related businesses. As originally stated, coaching staffs benefit greatly from this…
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