A Change A’int Gone ComeMarch 31, 2011
The HBO Real Sports episode last night wasn’t much of a surprise. If you didn’t catch it last night it was a panel type joint with Jason Whitlock, Billy Packer, Rich Rodriguez, and former Ivy League athletic commissioner, Jeffrey Orleans with Bryant Gumbel hosting. The topic of discussion, NCAA college football and basketball debacle.
Like I said, it wasn’t much of a surprise. We all know the two big money cash cow college sports are just as corrupt as any urban crack field street corner. There’s lying, cheating, bribes, rouge law enforcers, etc. I don’t know of any death issues yet, but when you are offering up 80k – 100k plus sooner or later something really bad will happen. They talked about a few Auburn players cashing in on runners, boosters, etc. They also talked about street agents trying to semi-strong arm coaches into giving them jobs for players.
Now the corruption is no surprise, and neither are these numbers, but they still get your attention.
- The NFL and NBA get 57% of the revenue
- 2009 Texas football made 94 million, if they paid the players the players would have got 630k
- 2009 Duke basketball made 27 million, if they paid the players the players would have got 1.26 million
- 2009 Stanford bball coach made 300k because Nike was the shoe sponsor. Players got $0 for wearing the shoes
- 2009 Bama players would have been paid 500k…if they were paid.
- NCAA makes upwards of 4 billion dollars off of video game licensing
- Top 14 NCAA execs earned an average salary of 425k
- 2008 The top Sugar Bowl official 645k
- 2008 Sugar Bowl winner, Georgia Bulldogs, made 18 million
- 2010 Michigan football made 63 million, had 21 million in expense, profited 42 million
- NCAA makes nothing off of the BCS championships, they are two different entities
- Although they are two different entities, both are headed by the university Presidents
- BCS schools lose 13.5 million on average
- NCAA makes money off of FCS championship football
- 90% of NCAA sports income comes from March Madness
Can the problem be fixed? Will a change come? Yes and no. The problem can be fixed if you simply find a way to pay the players in a way that gives them incentives to graduate. Yes, you’ll still have people trying to facilitate players to programs for profit. I don’t know how to curb that problem.
I love Colin Cowherd, but I totally disagree with him and everyone else that say the players shouldn’t be paid. Cowherd says the kids live great lives while they are in college, which is true. But a great life for five years max isn’t worth what the players are bringing to the university. A great life for five years where they are encouraged to play more than they are to go to class isn’t a good deal. What do those players do when they are done? Used and abused for five years under the guise of a college education and being the big man on campus. Sounds like a “great deal”. College football and basketball lets you live like a king for five years of your life, the most important five years of your life where you’ll develop as a person and fertilize the ground for your future. But instead of fertilizing that ground, we’ll use you up and when your done, say it’s your fault. Students are encouraged by their academic counselors not to pick difficult majors so that they will not have any ineligibility issues. I feel like college academic counselors are more despicable than car salesman, agents and lawyers.
I understand you can’t just pay the football and basketball players and that they carry the weight of all the 88 NCAA sports championships. I also understand the bulk of FBS NCAA schools lose money. I know for a fact though, the money can be split up, and that the books need to really be opened up. Someone is profiting immensely off of these kids. They are already using a “socialist” system to make sure everyone is taken care of. So why not take care of the players to some extent as well. As easy as that sounds, as long as the Presidents of these universities are making the amount of money they are making, they aren’t going to share it like they should. Be honest…if you were in their shoes, would you?
That’s all I got,
Ricky Writer
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