Posted on 08/12/2020 6:30:51 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
with any luck, the infighting between the power 5 conferences will break that cartel up. then, maybe college football can get back to being college football.
espn would have to be restrained from turning it back into it’s cash spewing prostitute, but at least there would be a chance.
Heh. True dat.
...Do we really need all these sports?
Sports, done properly, are a way to show that students can be far more than they think they can be, by pushing the envelope. Basic training is similar, because the reality of war is far harder.
It is the monetizing of sports that has gone all wrong...
These conferences are just as much about academics as they are sports. No one will be going rogue.
That one’s a keeper.
Thx!
What he and similar people do not grasp is that with rare exceptions, the vast majority of athletic departments are a net drain on their school's finances. For the other schools that do break even on their athletic departments, it is because football and basketball fund all the non-revenue producing sports.
So the bottom line is that if they try to push those schools into the massive administrative and legal headaches of dealing with unionized college athletes, a great many schools are likely to walk away entirely because it will not be worth the effort. As it is, a great many academics at many schools already believe that sports gets too much attention and emphasis, and would gladly hop aboard a movement to end them.
If that happens, the players who believe that a minor league consisting of players not yet good enough for the NFL will attract massive TV contracts and money even if they aren't affiliated with colleges are going to find themselves in for a very rude awakening.
I have a friend who was working on a masters degree in university management. He said that only three colleges in the country make a profit on their sports programs. In most football and men's basketball only partially subsidize their other sports. Now that didn't include calculations on donors who might not open their wallets for a sportsless college and dual use (recreation plus intercollegiate athletics), but it sounds like once they fire their athletic departments and sell the equipment they'll come out ahead.
Put Indiana, Eric Holcomb, in same class with DeWine. IU, PU.
.... Leftist brainwashing of the young.
Austin just selected the new head for the board of education. Her main goals are Social Justice and Equity.... Not a rip about education....
Yeah, I agree. So far this is a blue/red state thing. ACC is the one to watch now. Might Clemson leave the ACC and join the SEC? Democrats are playing with fire here. Their TDS is blinding them to potential destruction of their leagues and even the NCAA.
.... Leftist brainwashing of the young.
Austin just selected the new head for the board of education. Her main goals are Social Justice and Equity.... Not a rip about education....
They had mouth only maskers even back then. LOL
Too bad they couldn’t do it on a volunteer basis. No money in that however.
The schools and businesses should be absolved of liability and let people make up their own minds.
Athletic Departments have become incredibly bloated. It’s by choice if they “don’t make money.” Lots of accounting tricks, too.
Its all about liability and salivating trial lawyers.
The head of the BOE in Pittsburgh was busted by the press for having submitted a FAKE RESUME to get the job.
They hired him nonetheless. He’s the right color after-all.
The amount of small (and medium sized) businesses that depend on professional and college sports for the lion’s share of their income is an amazing thing.
I’ve been saying this for months - this lockdown is going to have catastrophic consequences. Sure, a lot of already weak businesses fell off fast, but there are a LOT of dead businesses walking right now. Many of them know they are doomed but are being silent, many are in denial, and many are about to be crushed and won’t even see it coming.
2021 is gonna be a year for the history books. Even more than 2020.
There’s basically no liability. 250 Covid deaths reported in the 14-25 age cohort in the US. Probably mostly cancer patients, etc. We have around 500 lightning strikes in the US every year. So these football players are more likely to be hit by lightning than die of Covid.
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