What is happening to college sports?
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If we watch it, we fund it…🤔
💯 correct! If this country watched our politicians and their voting records the way they watch football and stat records think what we could get done…
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This^
Not now, I'm watching the GAME(S) 😫
College ball is all I will still watch. For now. I know it's all rigged. I have bread. Occasionally I need circus. Only the Texas Lonhorns and the playoffs. This financial corruption will taint it the rest of the way. I liked to pretend it's at least a little more honest than pro ball. I will no longer be able to pretend that.
For one thing, they are not college kids who are good at sports, they are RECRUITED for SPORTS and have to attend classes so they don't get kicked off the team.
Some are both.
I am so confused about this. Yes athletes should benefit if their name makes money for the university they choose to attend, but that money should be placed in trust and passed to them once they graduate. So many things wrong with this.
The NCAA making billions off of their hard work is what was wrong in the first place. These young men not only have to work hard in the classroom, they have to work even harder out of it. For what? Most of them won't make the NFL. Some will get injured and have their careers cut short. I say let them get what they can get while they can get it. Besides, it's been a bit of a joke that the NFL has used the college football system as basically their farm system for 100 years.
The best solution, to keep college athletics "amateur", is for the NFL to step up and start a minor league system. They would never do that, though. So, here we are.
I say screw that. A free $400,000 dollar tuition is payment enough.
Why should it be placed in trust?
Shedeur Sanders is a "prime" example. Lame pun is unavoidable pun.
To secure his or her future. Millions of dollars given to a young person, with no history of managing that kind of money......the sharks will circle him until they have taken it all.
That is what his parents are for, to protect him and potentially screen for a proper professional to help him manage.invest those funds.
Lets be real , how many people , even those with a college degree have had a history of managing that type of money?
Typically the highest paid public employee in every state. Is a football or hockey coach from a state university
TWO Things...College Football is the NFL's Minor League. IF these players get injured, or are not performing, they lose their Scholarship. The whole thing is a farce. In addition, the colleges are making $ off of this left and right.
Yes - they will likely lose their scholarship if they are not performing. Just like someone loses a job for non-performance.
Losing a scholarship for injury generally doesn't happen - at least in a money sport, and on teams that care. I've seen football players with really bad knee injuries keep their scholarships, stay in school and graduate (maybe even get a masters degree). One that I followed was Blaine Irby from the University of Texas. I still had season tickets back then. His story is very inspirational, and he remained on scholarship while he rehabbed for 3 years - even though he only had a 2-5% chance of ever walking again.
https://texaslonghorns.com/sports/football/roster/blaine-irby/3541
dec - Not sure IF there is a Hard and Fast rule-RE: Scholarships for the injured, or if it is the schools decision. I have heard all sorts of stories (Good AND Bad) but let's face it - THEY ALL have made it a Business.
Oh I know. I don't believe there is a rule, but good schools will keep the player on scholarship usually. Fan bases can get pissed when someone they root for gives their all, gets injured, and is then tossed away like trash.
All sports have become business. My perspective is limited though. I only follow college football after giving up on baseball and NFL years ago. Since I live in Texas I follow the Longhorns, and even had season tickets for 10 years so I could have daddy-daughter bonding time while she was still a kid and enjoyed going.
Most schools don't make money from their sports, but Texas Football makes enough to fund other sports and kick millions back to the academic departments as well. That is very rare. If it is going to be a big business, at least it is self-sufficient and also paying for other non-football stuff as well. I can get behind that model. That could also be how they can keep injured players on scholarship.
They are a good example! I wonder IF they are one of the exceptions, and not the Norm??
It's hard to tell because the monetary breakdowns from big programs are usually not very clear. Texas' was because they had that Longhorn Network in partnership with ESPN for over a decade, and ESPN would pay them something like $15M a year.
Note - I didn't go to UT. I joined the Air Force instead of college. I just liked going to the football games with my kid when I lived in the Austin area.
If other schools do kick money back, or pay for the other sports, it is likely just a dozen or fewer. There is also often a big year-to-year difference in the amounts depending on things like coaching searches, stadium renovations, bond payments, etc. Texas will be hit by that because they have to shuffle some things around to build a new medical school and complex (UT Dell Medical School).
They just finished demolition on the Erwin Center in May. That was a big concrete bldg (looked like a drum) in downtown Austin where they played basketball for over 40 years. A big medical complex will be built there by 2030. They allocated $25M for a non-explosive demolition and came in under budget. The medical center will dwarf that though with early estimates around $2.5B.
They also scored a deal for a new $300M arena (to replace the Erwin Center) at zero cost to taxpayers, donors, or the school in a special deal. It also gives Austin a new place to have concerts or other things when there are no b-ball games. Very Cool. https://www.statesman.com/story/sports/college/2022/04/19/moody-center-built-300-million-no-cost-taxpayers-boosters/7358394001/
You are correct - they are a good example. If schools can use the business aspect of sports to expand their research, curriculum, and public facilities so that it benefits not only the school but everyone else it is a win/win. If their new medical center is as good as their #1 rated (in the USA) MD Anderson cancer center in Houston it will be huge. It will actually house an expansion from MD Anderson, along with a specialty hospital among other things.
Here is a nice chart on the business earnings topic. The chart shows 2023 earnings and expenses, and as it turns out I nailed the number in the beginning of my comment. It looks like 12 schools didn't take money from the university for sports funding in 2023. I'd like to see more but that is a higher number than I remember from a few years back. I love it when what is often thought of as a nasty business is turned around to do great things.
https://sportsdata.usatoday.com/ncaa/finances
Agreed -dec- Maybe we should put the Longhorns in charge of College Sports..AND especially the BOWL season...You know you have gone too Far..When the Tostitos Bowl game, the 25th game of the day is on!>!?!>!?!
Eh - maybe on a committee. The Longhorns are hated enough by other schools - they don't need more reasons.
As for the bowls - most of them suck bad, but they do give the kids a fun trip, and super fans a reason to travel somewhere they may have never gone. They also give us a reason to not have to sit and make small talk with relatives we can't stand when they visit during the holidays.
Honestly? Business happened. The NCAA took in close to 1.3 Billion last year. With Hundreds of Millions of Dollars being distributed to Schools and Divisions that are members. And that income is set to increase this year.
College Sports became a very profitable industry all on its own. With it becoming a major source of Revenue for Colleges and Universities and a Primary deciding factor of students attendance at the institution. As opposed to just a side thing that was offered. While the courses and classes served as the main attraction.
And they always want the Alumni to donate money.
Sad part is that only a handful of athletes will be getting NIL deals like the rest of players either get NIL as a group (little money spread out) or nothing (unless a player like Underwood shares the love. Then you have the Portal that screws the entire College Sport world up because if coach doesn’t play me I’m bouncing. Reason Saben retired from football. Used to grow men no babysit whiners.
College Football is now circling the bowl and about to join the ranks of the NFL.
This is sickening stupid. Love of money os the root of ALL evil.
Removing this, please stay on topic