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This is an amazing room of beings that is based on the energy of the whole amazing room of beings that is based on the energy of the universe. Tphapl mass stay and thank you for having us. [applause] its how many earths are needed to provide the level of consumption where we are today. For the u. S. A. Its 5. 5 earths. For the u. K. Its three and a quarter. For france its three. For germany its 2. 5 and russia its 2. 5 and brazil its two and china its almost one. But thats going to change. So obviously none of this is sustainable and its only going to come from us by saying no and we can also boycott. Thats the radical approach is boycott. We did that against tuna that was catching dolphins. Guess what . They changed their practices because women said, im not buying it. Good so the deeper we go into the saying no and we can also boycott. Thats the radical approach is issues the more educated we are. Vote with your dollars. Thank you very much. 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Now a look at some of the issues effecting College Athletic programs from washington journal this is an hour. Learned talking today were taking a look at College Athletics programs. Joining us for the discussion reporter steve, good morning. College athletics how much of it is the program itself makes up the larger part of the university. Whats the role they play . Well, within the broader budget of the United States its a small piece of it just in terms of the finances. But in terms of the reknown and the publicity it draws its viewed even within College Athletics and within higher ed as being a front porch for the United States and getting its message out there and just sort of the way people interact with colleges generally is through the athletics. In large part in a large way is through the Athletics Program. How students are involved . In the broader basis within the totality of the ncaa across all three divisions about 450 and 470,000programs. Joining us students who are playing sports within division one which is the group of schools that are involved in the basketball tournament, march madness, abouts 180,000 students. Eight out of the ten earn bachelors degrees and 35 will go to post stkpwrad watt degrees. Are there issues the time demands of their sports and managing their time and being able to get through and go on to college. I mean, most of the attention is on mens basketball and football which is a big Revenue Generation sports and supports on television the most. And the time demands are greatest and where the academic backgrounds of some of the athletes are not sometimes not as good. You have to keep in mind the totality of College Sports runs across much broader spectrum and many in sports whether its in swimming or track and field or soccer or whatever where theyre there is a whole lot going on and a lot of those students who are heavily engaged in their academics and still have a lot of demands on them but there is not a lot of professional prospects out there for them so they are getting a degree and things. It doesnt mean that theyre not academically rigorous but some of this has to do with the interest of playing keep in mindsports. If youre involved with in sports you might have interest in sports or Sports Management or recreation or those sports oriented types of programs. Certain of these programs also are more its simpler to manage depending on the academic model of the university or what the academic demands are. Theyend to give students more freedom to pick and choose what their involved in. But no question theres been signs of sort of athletes being funneled toward certain academic programs. They raised some questions and whether or not theyre being able to major in programssports. If. Being involved in an engineering or premed program is a big Time Commitment for any student. Do go but there is a lot of advising given to College Athletes and 134 of that results in some decisions that athletes end up not being happy with when theyre done in school. Perhaps theyre not where they wanted to end up when they first started into school or maybe theyre not happy with where they ended up they got done with school but an incredible support network and completely different environment than it is for the normal student in terms of being able to access and advising and help with lining up major programs and so on. Again, time demands on the athletes are considerable and thats the reason why theyre set up but there is a huge scaffolding around the athletes to help them manage these kinds of things. Sometimes it works out and sometimes it doesnt and again its a question of whether or not are the students are the athletes ending up in programs they want to be or putting in programs simply to help keep them eligible and in some place it works really well and other places it has not worked well and there has been the university of North Carolina where there is a lot of publicity about an academic scandal there and and its proven and been shown not to be particularly rigorous or well monitored and a lot of problems like that. We had a chance to discuss big ten president s and the one of those was the head of Michigan State. She talked about her universitys perspective. Lets get some of her perspective and then you can comment on it. We have scholarship student athletes who are both men and woman whos grad race rates are the same as our student body. Obviously there are a few who come to the United States who leave a bit early to pursue their athletic interests, but we see all of our students no matter their athletic skills as athletes second and provide academic support for them to be successful. We also had programs to ensure that student athletes return to graduate and stay connected with us. Two examples currently might be a player who isinterests, but we see all of our students no matter their athletic skills as athletes playing hockey for the Detroit Red Wings who keeps emailing me hes within six credits of getting heu degree. And look at a person like steve smith who is a commentator for on basketball making a terrific income after his professional playing career who is finishing his degree and stayed connected to Michigan State and role model for almost every student athlete we of. The media focuses on the 1 of students who are really the student athletes who are not indicative of our set of students who receive scholarships as part of the Athletic Program i think there is validity to the focus of the media as it were but the 1 are the Football Players and the basketball players and those are the people who are involved in sports and people are most interested on the ones on television and so on. Youll hear this over and over again, with referring to the student athletes thats a term that is sort of evolved out of the ncaa itself to try to make it sound like theres its an equal deal and in the minds of a lot of athletes thats not the case. That in many instances for a lot of these guys athletics comes equivalent if not first because of the time demands that are involved. Is there a different role . Yeah, and theres theres no point in kidding around about it. The demands made are significant and in terms of or in terms of whats going on outside and things that are optional. Theyre optional to the extend you dont want to do them youre lose your position on the team to somebody who does. Whether or not theyre mandatory or optional its all the same. There are decisions that those guys make and that weve shown on crossexamination that theres plenty of down time that these guys spend playing video games or watching tv marathons. I mean, theres plenty of time to do things and their decisions are made. But the time demands that are made on these folks are considerable. And those not following the trial this this was a kiss at a resolved around the athletes names, images and likenesses and whether or not they were being appropriately compensated for that use through Live Television and rebroadcast of games and through all kinds of different uses. And ultimately what has happened at the District Court level the athletes were awarded it was made partially on their behalf that would open the possibility of athletes getting on a deferred basis compensation for their participation in sports. Your actual dollars as opposed to to a College Scholarship which is the cost to room, tuition and fees, the schools in Major Conferences will in january in all likelihood change that death is any things so a College Athletic scholarship will cover those things plus the cost of attendance which will be transportation back and forth from school and other incidentals. Lets hear from some people who have questions who are calling. An educate erb, youre up first, daryl. Go ahead. I appreciate it. Im an fc a character coach in the high school in new castl, pennsylvania, and ive just been introduced to this program in the last two years. Our Program Reaches into the life of the student athlete and try to support them and the support produces a more quality player and more quality student and we have volunteers. Do you find this in the colleges as well in high schools . Have you heard of any of this . In terms of what type of support are you provide something well, were providing academic support and providing emotional support and in other words my job and i always laugh they say, whats your job i said my job is working with the kid that comes off and starts dropping the fbomb and gets all excited and we try to bring him to control and then we find out that theres a problem at home. We find out that theres a problem in his studies and we find out we use the support to be able to help them and how im making this transition into what youre saying is that in colleges there is a lot of down time. So youre serving more like a mentor. Youre wondering if colleges have more of an incentive. Im wondering whether you checked into any of this and whats your opinion of that. Okay. I think there are considerable support programs that are put out there for the athletes that are both in terms of their academics as well as in their other areas of their lives. I think that schools do make an effort to try to support them in terms of their mental and psychological health. I think theres been a greater awareness of concussions and the impact of that thats kind of had i think theres also help thats offered for guys on an emotional level. There is a spiritual element in this in some programs. I think schools are making an effort and i think there are places where it could get better. We saw problems with year with how university of Michigan Football program dealt with concussions and athlete injuries. Are getting more and more aware of thats kind of had i think theres also help thats offered for guys on an emotional that just as professional sports are. But there is that kind of support available. A parent in abilene, texas, go ahead. Good morning. I was a player and a parent. My son plays at northwestern western. I played at ucla about 40 years ago and i think there is a lot of ignorance out there as to how athletic scholarship is paid for. I went at a college when all the ills were blamed on 100 football plays at northwestern western. I played at ucla about 40 years players in the world. Like you explained how College Scholarship is its really its not a scholarship the Athletics Department will run their own scholarship programs thats true. How are they paid for . The money that backs all the Athletics Programs is generated by the programs. Theres also subsidies that are put into the programs by the universities and the amount of money that goes into those programs through funding and fees varies from school to school and only seven programs in the most recent year that is available that received no type of subsidy. Is there is definitely involvement of athletic funds and fees through those kinds of skpraplz fees. That is what youre getting at . Hes gone but the concept of fees to students who arent involved in Athletic Programs have an option to say that id rather have my fees be put to Something Else than a Sports Program . There are fees charged specifically to support Athletic Programs. Those athletic fees in the vast vast majority of cases those are not optional. Theyre mandatory fees just like the fee that you get charged to help support the computer infrastructure and the phone system, the bus system, whatever else. Its part and parcel of the fee structure. How much of the revenue thats comprised especially in the ncaa comes from television . A lot of it comes from television. Either through the arrangements with the conferences make from football whichand also comes from the ncaa as a television contract. But the football Television Money is a much bigger driver in those conferences that have the bigger television contracts, the five Major Conferences atlantic coast, big ten, big 12. Good morning. Good morning. First and foremost thanks for disclosing all the information that you do. Its very helpful. Appreciate it. Thanks. No beproblem. I wanted to make a comment and hang up after that. I hear all of this stuff going on about ncaa and how athletes should be thankful for a scholarship. Being a former athlete its the biggest hypocrisy that i ever witnessed. You cannot tell me that these athletes cannot be paid money when i see a coach like nick saban having a 3 million home paid for and i see a coach like harbaugh getting offered 8 million and a kid getting suspended because he made a few bucks off his autograph. You can are cant make an argument about that when these universities are making hundreds of millions of dollars off their backs. It will never add up and never equalize. These kids for most of them have not asked to come to school. For the most part of it a lot of them are forced to come to school because they have to meet a requirement to become a professional athlete. When were talking about the 1 that that Michigan State president had the nerve to get up there and talk about, okay. Its a free marketing scheme. It helps the athlete being able to land on their feet and run as soon as theyre drafted. Can i ask you where you went to school and what sport you played . I went i actually went to school a few years ago i went to did you go on a scholarship yourself . I did. What did you play . I played a sport, im not going to disclose that. Okay, thank you. What hes raising are significant issues. There is a lot of conflict within the ncaa about whether athletes are getting in relation to the salaries that coaches are being paid and the amounts of revenue that is being generated bite schools. That is a big piece of whats going on in other litigations that are pending against the ncaa. There are and the conferences. We have a lifting of some of of those average fayepay for head coach. 3. 7 million. Big ten about 3 million. Major College Coaches are making in the neighborhood 2. 7 to 3 million a year in football. Thats serious money. And thats the reason why people are finding this sort of inequity in athletics in terms of what theyre able to receive and i think its something that is the schools in those conferences are eager to try to address. I think schools have gun to recognize in part because theyve been forced by these legal actions to recognize that the amounts of revenue thats being generated through these programs is so gigantic and the salaries are so gigantic that there is this imbalance that has developed over time. And they are trying to address that. Whether or not thats going to be sufficient remains to be seen. There is a movement to unionize ath