[sammyg2]

I agree we can eliminate sports from the university arena, right after we stop using taxpayer's money to give "some" select students a free ride on everyone else's dime.

Here's my suggestion:
No athletic scholarships. No TV money to the schools, period. No advertisement revenue, no sponsorship revenue, no alumni support of athletic programs whatsoever.

Instead the NCAA or whatever organization takes all that revenue generated from the sports or having to do with sports in a given class (div 1, div2 etc) and evenly distributes it to all schools competing in that given level of sport.
But the money must be used to equally lower the tuition rates of all students attending that school and for no other purpose. No increases in the coache's salary, not one penny going to faculty, only to reduce tuition and fees. For ALL students, not just the ones favored by racism.

The TV revenue has created a monster that needs to be killed, but I will not downplay the importance of athletics in the educational setting.

I played sports all the way from age 5 to senior year in high school. Same with my brothers and their kids, same with my daughter, and will be the same with my son. Actually two brothers played in college, one went on to play for the atlanta braves but that's a side track.

Organized sports taught us very important life-lessons you can't learn from some poser wanna-be endumacator who hasn't BTDT.
They taught us the spirit of competition, that hard work is it's own reward, that worthwhile goals can only be reached with hard work and sacrifice, and you only deserve what you earn.
And you know what? It worked.

My ultra-lefty uncle on the other hand, suggested many years ago that I keep my kids out of sports because sports are bad for children and teach them all the wrong things, and that I should put them in somethnig creative like drum-line instead like his kids (whatever the heck drum line is).

My brothers, myself, our kids are sucessful while my uncle's "non-competitive" kids are always in and out of trouble, and haven't held down a reasonable job in their life and are living off the gubmint.
Sports are very important.