The ultimate answer to everything. Bring in the lawyers.
Notre Dame and UNC tried to open-up and it only took a week for both to shut down and close both campuses.
The only good idea I have seen is the bubble. It has certainly been successful for the NBA. And while the NFL is not going total bubble, it did allow players to op-out.
And if I am a college player how has a good shot at the NFL, do I op-out and go for the draft?
And then you have growing groups like the parents who have kids playing at Nebraska who are saying if they donāt get the right answers they are going to file a law suit.
I think this circus still has a few more acts to play out.
Film at eleven.
This is the perfect time to do what I have long supported.
END all varsity college sports End all sports scholarships. Let each and every professional sports leagues recruit from a farm system as Major League Baseball does.
Get colleges out of sports and purely focused on education.
I would permit purely intramural sports that are more focused on the recreational and physical fitness aspects for the student.
There is something just plain ā ā ā ā ā ā ā wrong about the fact that in a number of States, the highest paid public official is a Head Football Coach.
Iām truly clueless in the financials here, but the football mafia has convinced me that their revenues prop up the whole system.
Locally, our $175 million dollar downtown stadium addition continues at speed. Takes up all that space, gets used a few times a year.
A few years ago there was talk about moving the football stadium and basketball arena 10 miles east into open land, and placing an expanded medical school in their place. Nearly all factors said that was a great idea, except the ābut muh football goes thereā factor.
I agree with what you say, but I have no concept of how it could even be possible.
The Longhorns program had more than $219 million in annual operating revenue and total operating expenses of just over $206.5 million during its 2018 fiscal year, according to its new annual financial report to the NCAA.
Well, hell. This might be easier than I thought. Owning hospitals and land is way better than more football.
You mean like having class online like colleges are doing? Or the fact many off them already have private tutors? But even if they donāt have those things, how is now being out more and less access to medical facilities better?
In principle it sounds bad but . . . . Alabamaās football program brought in 111 million in 2018-2019, 48 million of which was pure profit (meaning this number comes after paying Nick Sabanās nine million dollar salary). Find a professor anywhere at any college who brings in 48 million in pure profit.
To use a less extreme example from my state. Boise State brought in 4.5 million in pure profit after their coaches 1.5 million salary (heās the highest paid in my state). Once again find a professor who brings in 4.5 million in profit.
Colleges only survive off of football. The sheer amount of profit most of them bring pays for a whole lot at the school. It keeps all the athletic programs afloat because outside of some mens basketball teams they all lose money, especially female athletics. It pays for many salaries of professors and other employees at the school.
Pay your coach less and you get a lesser coach and you then win less which means less revenue. Which then means cuts across the board.
That would pretty much be the end of my sports interest. Huge college football fan with very little interest in the pros and even less this year with all the nonsense going on.
