Skarp wrote:Sam wrote:Do the math, Skarp....A kid has $10,000 budgeted to go to college for a year....now the kid has a scholarship to pay for school....all of a sudden that kid has $10,000 to spend on coke and boob jobs....the scholarship puts cash in their pockets....its simple math.
The tournament prize goes to the team...the player isn't playing for a dime of cash that they can spend on coke or a boob job.
Nice analogy, though....really one of your better ones.
Analogy?? I didn't comment on (or analogize to) tournament prize money at all, genius. Read your own post. You claim that scholarships are equivalent to cash-for-play arrangements. I'm saying they aren't. Understand? Debating you is like debating most liberals (who respond to arguments they want you to make rather than ones you actually do make)--always an exercise in patience.
But please do tell--how many softball scholarship recipients do you think have $600,000 "budgeted," that they can then "put in their pockets" after receiving a scholarship at, say, Stanford? Your post assumes that scholarship recipients invariably have money set aside for college, when in fact many wouldn't attend college at all absent a scholarship. Scholarships do not necessarily put $$ in a recipients pocket, and in no event do they directly do so. They are not remotely analogous to cash payments or to CEO compensation packages, as you have claimed.
You describe the tournament as a "cash-for-play" arrangement, which isn't even close. The player gets no money...even if they win the tournament. You are putting forth an argument based upon the false premice that the players are getting cash for playing.
Next you come up with the argument about parents who spend $10,000 - $30,000 on travel ball don't have money budgeted for college....there are certainly a few...but not many. You are forgetting that I have been around this more than you have....I actually know a lot of people whose kids are going to college on scholarships. If you have $5,000 budgeted and your kid was going to have to work or get student loans, but your kid gets a $50,000 full ride to Stanford....you have $5,000 cash on hand, plus no student loans. Theres really not even any division or fractions here....its simple addition and subtraction....and a little touch of common sense.
Then you fail the math test again. Scholarships put instant money in a players hands and they put future money in the players hands....its the gift that keeps on giving. The IRS could easily deem the scholarship as income as either a gift or compensation....politicians decide not to do so.
When did I mention CEO's? I think I said corporate...