tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8152901575140311047.post1562276618051566981..comments2024-03-28T08:49:51.975-04:00Comments on Musings on Markets: Amateur AthleticsAswath Damodaranhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12021594649672906878noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8152901575140311047.post-15490249483966398642010-11-16T23:51:29.248-05:002010-11-16T23:51:29.248-05:00@Aswath - Not really! I still see some hope! If yo...@Aswath - Not really! I still see some hope! If you can educate children to participate in sports for the joy of it, it might as well work. I am involved in few such initiatives and see a hope there!Balajihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05803231037673033871noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8152901575140311047.post-28817612320660165792010-11-16T06:32:26.088-05:002010-11-16T06:32:26.088-05:00If you are pining for the days of amateur sports, ...If you are pining for the days of amateur sports, that train has left the station. It is the equivalent of wishing that television was an educational medium, that children would read more and that life would slow down. This is exactly the nostalgia that is being used by commercial interests to make significant money of the rest of us.Aswath Damodaranhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12021594649672906878noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8152901575140311047.post-83723760858141383562010-11-16T04:12:22.423-05:002010-11-16T04:12:22.423-05:00Hi, Prof. Damodaran:
I can't agree with your p...Hi, Prof. Damodaran:<br />I can't agree with your points here.(About other subjects, I can't agree with you anymore). The propsition you raised up could eliminate the spirits of sports. In my homeland, our education adminstry sets up some authetic-orentied colleges for some students with excellent physical talents. Their puspose is aimed to build up a well-facilized place for our semi-professional players. However, the policy enternally goes into the astray. The subsidiary authorizations force most young children into all day long authetic practices at sacrifices of their rights to basical subjects. And, they also convey them with the thought that it will be prosperous after being as a national player. But we all that not all of them have the chances to be the worldwided-regonized players. Some failing in the half way, with lacking the basical understanding, will gernally lose the social judement on something right and something wrong in the follwing life or even are legitimately gulity. <br />I tend to let the sport thing be the sporting way in the college campus. We all know what excites us is the competitions and spirits in the games, not the money I hardly gets, right?magic19https://www.blogger.com/profile/18234092576741197759noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8152901575140311047.post-59712941313519578752010-11-16T01:48:57.388-05:002010-11-16T01:48:57.388-05:00I don't think you are addressing the right pro...I don't think you are addressing the right problem. The problem is of excess commercialisation which has killed the spirit of sports and games. Whatever, the system may be, you will see the agents, PR managers, administrators sponsors exploiting the sportsmen for their personal benefits.Balajihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05803231037673033871noreply@blogger.com