I agree and yet it seems the powers that be might lose sight of this fundamental fact in the decades ahead. All those mid tier P5 programs maintain nice winning records thanks largely due to the current open ended P5-G5 system. Make it a closed system and you take away a lot of Ws. Take away those Ws and attendance and revenues may decline rather substantially.
Lol at calling Northwestern, the Washington Generals. It’s funny because it’s true.
I dunno. I am hard pressed to find an SEC program that has lost interest in last 20 years as the conference has proven to be head and shoulders above everyone. And don’t say Vandy, they’ve never been a draw and become less so every year now that they’re playing in a pro town.
Don’t disagree with the second part. That’s a different discussion.
What's nice is that even good programs already become deadbeats. This year's roster included Florida, Auburn, TAMU, Nebraska, Miami, Oklahoma
That's correct. It goes away with the Longhorns move to the SEC. Also the pending layoffs were announced back in February (whenever they did their earnings call).. so nothing really new there (I did see some reporting hinting that the 7000 announced in February was actually 4000 people + 3000 open positions being eliminated)
Yeah, your right- Benedict wants a straight employment deal with the athletes. In our current environment where anyone and everyone sues over wrongful terminations- our Universities running sports as paid labor will really go very well. How fast can we turn a 50m annual deficit to 100m- probably 24 months. But paying players will do one thing immediately- result in a steady reduction in coaches and coach salaries as there will be no room for the excesses we currently have there.
The thing that no one talks about is that paying players ultimately will severely reduce or eliminate non-revenue sports. There’s only so much money to go around in an athletic department. If you have to pay the players of revenue sports, it forces universities to make hard decisions about the sports that do not earn the money. Every time basketball and football take a bigger slice of the remaining pie available for nonrevenue sports is reduced until it is ultimately eliminated.
I agree with your point, but why should anyone care? What does the football coach make vs the field hockey coach and why? A lot of people get rich off the revenue producing sports and it isn't the players. Read this week Ohio State is paying 5 assistants over 1.5 million this year.
Because the pie is finite. So when people talk about oh let’s pay the players, what they’re missing, in my opinion, is that the end result of that is you’re going to disenfranchise a lot of other athletes. That’s the question I would like to see put to Dodd. “The endgame of your proposal to pay players in revenue sports is likely that that there won’t be adequate funds for non-revenue sports in most universities. Did you intend for that result or did you just not think the issue through before opining on it?”
Yes. Win more games out of conference
