Men’s college basketball players making twice as much as women

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12 thoughts on “Men’s college basketball players making twice as much as women

  1. So the men make twice as mich as the women.
    But I bet the men bring more than twice as much in revenue.

    Second, women can market themselves for compensation.
    They don’t have NCAA restrictions anymore.

  2. This is just one of many areas where the answer if obvious but political correctness prevents an honest discussion and acknowledgement of reality.

  3. This merely hints at (without directly confronting) the bigger question: if collegiate athletics were the embodiment of amateur competition, and now college athletes can cash in on their brand, what’s the point of the NCAA?

    As the others have indicated, there’s no real point in asking the gender pay gap question, because we all know the answer. However, my guess is, we’ll pretend we don’t know the answer so that NCAA has a new cause to champion (and a reason for being), which will help them rattle their collection jars and prompt the increasingly vestigial, irrelevant NCAA to clamp on to Title IX enforcement instead–something that’s just as divisive as amateur athletes cashing in. Or they’ll clamp on to transgender athletes in women’s sports–something that’s MORE divisive than amateur athletes cashing in.

    And, in time, the NCAA will become even more the puppet of the elites and less a representative of workaday athletes–particularly those in sports like fencing or lacrosse, which lack the visibility or clout for their athletes to make bank on their name-brand.

  4. As the ole saying goes “ Stay in school “.
    For athletes that won’t make it to the highest professional ranks
    such as the NBA, NFL, or MLB, then why not stay in college ten years
    playing and cashing in on your brand and talent.

    There is no such thing as the student athlete. It’s just an athlete
    competing on behalf of the school for compensation”

  5. I was thinking the same thing; what’s the point of the NCAA? They’re loosing power day by day. NIL deals were dangerous and now we can’t go back. This whole social media influencer, college athlete, getting better deals thing, feels like the show Black Mirror, season 3, episode 1. It’s called “Nosedive”. That’s where we end up.

  6. Are you kidding me “worthless article” didn’t you see the expert testimony from The Loughborough Institute of England and the Drake Group?

  7. Wow..what a surprise. The market pays more for some performers than others. Football pays more than water polo. Female models get paid more than male. We need equity among everybody in life. Bring everybody down to the same
    low level, except for those that pass the equality laws.

  8. In a related story, athletes at Ohio State, Michigan, Auburn, etc. make 2-3 times more than athletes at Ball State, Anderson University or Illinois State.

  9. I pay the Ops manager at my company (a female) 4 times what some of my lower-level male employees make. Feel free to contact me for additional information and possibly a big story.

  10. The tournaments are NOT structured identically. A simple look at the brackets would help. Men play on neutral courts, women’s first and second round are hosted on home courts. Men have four regional sites, women two.

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