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WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 6, 2013
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
QUOTE OF THE DAY
"I used to be totally against it," Self told The Star. "I used to be totally against doing anything other than room, board, books, tuition and fees. But I've changed. And the landscape has changed also. It was always big business; now it's huge business."
—Bill Self as told to Kansas City Star
The University of Kansas athletic program brought in revenue of $74,850,203 in 2011.
usatoday.com
TRIVIA OF THE DAY
Q. In what year did the University's athletic program have the largest revenue?
A: 2008
THE MORNING BREW College athletes deserve compensation
Mario Chalmer's was robbed. After making the most memorable shot in Kansas basketball history, many reaped profits off his success. Not a dime went Chalmer's way.
I'm sure the $4 million that Chalmers pocketed last year made him more than well-off financially, but the man that played a fairly large role in the Jayhawks fifth national title was duped for quite a bit of money.
Sure Chalmer may not be up in arms about the whole situation, but other past college athletes are. Ed O'Bannon, a former UCLA basketball standout in the early 1990s, is currently leading a lawsuit gaining momentum against the NCAA—and it has the backing of big names like Oscar Robertson and Bill Russell. The lawsuit was formed against the NCAA on the grounds that college athletes should
have a right to pursue the revenues of rebroadcasted games. Last year, the lawsuit was amended to include live game broadcasts.
Last week, a California judge ruled in favor of the plaintiffs, denying an NCAA motion to prevent these players from seeking the revenues of live broadcasts.
The recent ruling has re-arused controversial conversation: should collegiate
athletes be paid? But before we get too indulged in the sight of Ben McLemore and #KUCMB swervin' in Benz-S on Jayhawk Boulevard, let's sort this out. College basketball and football programs rake in millions of dollars each year. The average Division 1 football program brings in $15.1 million annually while the college basketball program averages $10.1 million annually. The players' influence on the profits is obvious and inevitable. They affect ticket and merchandise sales. They attract national attention in the form of live game broadcasts. You watched Jimmer Fredette, not BYU.
Should Fredette have seen cash flow? What about Mario, or even Thomas Robinson, whose jersey hangs in about half the closets of all the university's students. Sell me a jersey without a name or number.
For the NCAA to fix player compensation at zero when the athletes are the main attraction—the reason money is being made—is wrong. As rich as they may become, it should be up to the players to decide what to do with money they are responsible for making. Do the players listed above need the money? Probably not. But as for student athletes now? Trick question. It's not for us or the NCAA to decide.
Edited by Brian Sisk
This week in athletics
Wednesday
Women's basketball
vs. Baylor
7 p.m.
Waco, Texas
Thursday
Men's basketball
vs. TCU
8 p.m.
Fort Worth, Texas
Track
 Iowa State Classic
 All Day
 Ames, Iowa
Friday
Softball
North Carolina State
12:30 p.m.
Miami, Fla.
Softball Florida International 3 p.m. Miami, Fla.
Saturday
Softball
Georgetown
9 a.m.
Miami, Fla.
Women's swimming
lowa State
6 p.m.
Lawrence
Track
Women's swimming
lowa State
10 a.m.
Lawrence
Track
 Iowa State Classic
 All Day
 Ames, Iowa
Women's basketball
West Virginia
2 p.m.
1 Lawrence
Sunday
Women's tennis
Tulsa
Noon
Lawrence
Softball
Bracket Play
TBA
Miami, Fla.
Men's basketball
Oklahoma
3 p.m.
Norman, Okla.
Monday
Men's basketball
Kansas State
8 p.m.
Lawrence
Tuesday
No events scheduled
TRACK & FIELD
CALVIN WHITNEY
cwhitney@kansan.com
Women's track and field team ranked No.1 in nation
On Tuesday, the U.S. Track & Field and Cross Country Coaches Association (USTFCCCA) announced Kansas women's track and field team as the No.1 ranked team in the nation. This is the first time for any Kansas
squad to be ranked No. 1. The announcement came a day after senior horizontal jumper
Geubelle
Andrea Geubelle was named Division I National Athlete of
the Week.
The Kansas women have seven athletes ranked on the nation's top-10 list in seven events. Geubelle leads the long jump with a distance 6.69 meters and holds the No.2 position in the triple jump with 13.45 meters. Senior long jumper Francine Simpson joins Geubelle in
the top-10 list at No. 6.
Senior sprinter Paris Daniels has two top-10 times, 7.32 in the 60 meters and 23.26 in the 200 meters. Daniels sits at No. 7 in the 60 meters and No. 6 in the 200 meters.
Junior pole vaulter Natana
Bartnovskaya has the third
best vault in the NCAA this
season after record placing performance in New York over the weekend. She had a vault of 4.30 meters. Junior pole vaulter Demi Payne stands with her teammate with the sixth best vault in the nation.
After breaking her own school record with a throw of 21.76 meters, senior Alena
Krechyk moved to the No. 2 spot in the weight throw. Sophomore Lindsay Vollmer had a score of 4,094 in the pentathlon at the Jayhawk Classic in Lawrence two weeks ago. She still holds the No. 5 spot.
Most of the No. 1 Kansas women will be competing Friday and Saturday at
the Tyson Invitational in Fayetteville, Arkansas.
Edited by Heather Nelson
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