For the purposes of this conversation, everything in the NCAA besides football and men's basketball is generally considered a 'non-revenue' sport. They're the ones that the "keep 'em broke" crowd pivot their arguments to, whenever their initial arguments (usually something about 'they get paid with an education') fall apart under scrutiny.
Gotcha, I realized that's what you meant, but it's just that there does seem to be money for these sports outside of tv/ticket money because the elite athletes in these sports seem to rake in pretty good sponsorship money, they just have to make it to the Olympic or World circuits to do so.
There have been many American swimmers who have won Olympic medals while college students. I don't see anything unfair about it. Before the Rio Olympics, nobody outside of the swimming community knew who Simone Manuel was. She shouldn't now be prevented from swimming for Stanford just because she's really good. Ledecky is leaving the swimming team (after sophomore year) to turn pro, but will continue as a student.
Yeah, I'm not really swayed by appeals to "This has been happening for years." I've also got better things to do than argue with you about this so, if you don't see anything unfair about it, then you don't. As it happens, I do, but I intend to expend zero energy trying to change your mind.
I already knew this, which is why I said that Stanford had Manuel and Ledecky.
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