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That quote from the article did not answer the question for me from a legal sense.
In addition, the federal government financially supports both public and private universities, including through financial student aid, grants and tax breaks. From that lens, coaches handle federal resources and those coaches' salaries are partly subsidized through the federal government.
I'm with you so far. . .
Further, these coaches, as one of the complaints details, “have the ability to provide sports agents, financial advisors, business managers and others with access to the student-athletes they coach" and wield “enormous influence over the student-athletes who play for them, in particular with respect to guiding those student-athletes through the process of selecting agents and other advisors when they prepare to leave college and enter the NBA."
Again, I'm with you so far. . .
In at least an indirect sense, then, federal taxpayers are funding corruption in college sports.
Wait, what? When did we establish corruption? How did we get from being in a position of influence over young men (so is a youth group leader and an army commander) to "indirect corruption"? Are the coaches corrupting the young men?? Slimy, yes, but corruption to accept $ from people who want to pay you to be an influencer? They're not elected officials who are sworn not to do this.
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