re: Georgia will adjust to new rule allowing required summer training, film study

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They are the entertainment in a billion$ industry. Why only minimum wage?

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Well, maybe we should clarify: would you propose to pay all D1 athletes, or just the sports that are in the black each year? After all, equestrian and golf practice sessions are considered mandatory, right?

Anyways, most student employees are paid right around minimum wage. Or are we going to say that athletes aren't students at all (thus classifying them as a different staff level)? What do you think would be a reasonable amount?

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the top coaches in the 1980s made $250k and assistants made $40 to $60k with $100k being significant. Now, top coaches make over $4M and assistants make over $1m.

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So, Mondo, why would Richt and his overall staff expenditures see such significant increases over the same period that other UGA employees did not see any increase?

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Colleges pay coaches top dollar because they can. Debating lower pay for college coaches is a different than trying to classify student athletes as employees for the purpose of paying them.

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Anyway. What about tuition? How much did tuition at UGA in 1980 cost a student compared to today? And what was his debt upon graduation compared to today? Also, was a graduate more likely to get a job using his UGA degree in 1980 than he is today? And how do the salaries of those jobs compare?

I was only a few months old back in 2007 when everyone was flipping houses and doubling-down on their mortgages and saying that real estate prices would never stop climbing. That your house would always increase in value every year...........and banks would give workers earning $25K/year a loan to buy a McMansion beyond their means right up until the days before the financial Collapse........

I'm sure though that nothing like that could ever happen in higher education though right?

It's not like the national debt has gone from an obscene 200 billion in 1980 to a deadly unpayable 17 TRILLION dollars today. Everything is fine. What could ever possibly go wrong? Surely, our best days are ahead of us at this rate? Right.

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All good questions, and excellent point about the nat'l debt.