U Minnesota Adds $200 Student Fee at Twin Cities Campus to Help Pay Student Athletes
“Twin Cities undergraduate students will also have to contend with rising tuition for the upcoming academic year”
Have you been wondering how schools are going to pay student athletes? Here’s one way.
CBS News reports:
University of Minnesota adds $200 fee at Twin Cities campus to help pay student athletes
The University of Minnesota is adding a $200 annual athletics fee for Twin Cities campus students.
The university’s Board of Regents approved the move last month; the $100-per-term fee will go to pay student athletes and help with “general cost increases” within the athletics department.
A federal judge signed off on a landmark NCAA settlement in June that will let each school share up to $20.5 million with athletes over the next year. Schools can also share $2.7 billion over the next decade to thousands of former players.
The Twin Cities campus does not currently have student fees related to athletics. Other campuses have a student fee which funnels some funds to the athletics department of those sites.
Twin Cities undergraduate students will also have to contend with rising tuition for the upcoming academic year: 6.5% for in-state students and 7.5% for out-of-state students.
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This would piss the hell out of me.
and they still find another way to keep the tax payers as the gravy train
State legislators not being there to deal with this right now is a disgrace. Luckily Minnesota has local problems like Trump’s foreign policy worked out right?
At the risk of sounding reactionary in the 20th century local issues always dominated voters minds and this would be an immediate giant issue.
Video production houses in the vicinity need to wake up and offer coupons to local ambulance chances for late-nite TV ads. This one’s the mother lode.
Now, wait a moment. For as long as I can remember, the story has been that the reason why universities, which are supposed to be places of higher learning, spend insane amounts of money on athletics is that athletics makes money for the university. The reason why the University of Minnesota pays its head football coach $6 million a year was supposed to be that the football team not only pays for itself but funds the academics.
But no, now we find that the sports teams have to be subsidized by the students! And still the football coach makes $6 million/year!
That would be a good trivia question. Name the state in which the highest paid .gov employee isn’t the football coach. I am, off the cuff going to say that there isn’t one, but, there are a few where the basketball coach might make more. Not that that is good news.
The sooner that all of these Div 1 teams are privatized, the better. Then the Universities can get back to educating, or indoctrinating, or whatever it is that they do these days.
One result of being a nation of jock-sniffers.
I would like to see universities getting back into the education business. This includes athletics for the ordinary student. I was a member of the rowing club when an underclassman. We got almost all of our support from a sympathetic alumni and virtually no support from the university even though in some cases we competed with varsity teams of other universities. There was nothing from the university in the way of: coaching, support for physical conditioning, uniforms, or equipment. The university’s athletic attention was on football, basketball, baseball, swimming, and track. Whereas a more general educational approach to athletics would give some opportunity for professional coaching and physical conditioning to all students that desired it – particularly or primarily the club sports. Years later my university initiated a women’s rowing varsity team – the men’s rowing was still left out in the cold with no coaching, equipment, conditioning, etc. My university is not unique in this regards. We need to get back to the ideal of well rounded student which includes physical conditioning and competence in some sports. That is not achieved by getting support from most of the student body to professionalize athletes in so called revenue sports.
I would like to see universities getting back into the education business. This includes athletics for the ordinary student.
Athletics provide a good balance. I would not have gotten through my final semester of engineering school— seventeen credit hours including a 5 credit hour lab that took 20-30 hours a week—without clearing my mind every day with a 3-5 mile run and a weekly soccer match.
The amount of time that big-time athletics take up prevent student-athletes from being real students. I have read some articles that say that a football player in a Big Ten(12?) program devotes 40 hours a week to athletics.