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http://www.forbes.com/sites/chrissmith/2...d=19804895

"And when it comes to spending what you make, there’s no better example than Alabama (No. 8, $99 million). With $97 million in revenue the team is second only to Texas. But the Crimson Tide also spent $51 million of that on football operations. That’s $11 million more than any other team spent last year — Auburn, second on the spending list, dumped $40 million into football last season — and thus ranks the Tide 10th in profitability."
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12-22-2015 04:59 PM
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RE: Forbes: College Football's Most Valuable Teams 2015
Ok, we know they spend money. So why the post?
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RE: Forbes: College Football's Most Valuable Teams 2015
(12-22-2015 05:26 PM)rook360 Wrote:  Ok, we know they spend money. So why the post?

It is just a reminder that you CAN SOLVE PROBLEMS BY THROWING MONEY AT THEM -- AS LONG AS YOU THROW THE RIGHT AMOUNTS AT THE RIGHT PERSONNEL.
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(12-22-2015 05:26 PM)rook360 Wrote:  Ok, we know they spend money. So why the post?

The article is NOT about Alabama or Auburn or even the SEC. Its an article about football finances in a time when everybody is claiming they make no money. I only quoted the Alabama and Auburn paragraph because folks often don't read the entire article or simply skim it for information of interest to them. You're welcome...
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RE: Forbes: College Football's Most Valuable Teams 2015
(12-22-2015 06:34 PM)WesternBlazer Wrote:  
(12-22-2015 05:26 PM)rook360 Wrote:  Ok, we know they spend money. So why the post?

The article is NOT about Alabama or Auburn or even the SEC. Its an article about football finances in a time when everybody is claiming they make no money. I only quoted the Alabama and Auburn paragraph because folks often don't read the entire article or simply skim it for information of interest to them. You're welcome...



Geez, sorry. Sometimes delivery is lost or misunderstood across the Internets. When I read your article quote, all I saw was "Alabama...Auburn..." So lost interest just like every other UA or AU post.
Heck to be honest, the title alone would've got me to read it until your quote then I thought "it's a rehash of every other article with Texas...blahblahbblah....Oregon....blahblahblah....Alabama....yaddayaddayadda." I get it, you quoted UA and AU because you thought people would be more interested in reading it then. Cool. For some peoples, it was the opposites.
You do understand point of view though?
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RE: Forbes: College Football's Most Valuable Teams 2015
(12-23-2015 07:12 AM)rook360 Wrote:  
(12-22-2015 06:34 PM)WesternBlazer Wrote:  
(12-22-2015 05:26 PM)rook360 Wrote:  Ok, we know they spend money. So why the post?

The article is NOT about Alabama or Auburn or even the SEC. Its an article about football finances in a time when everybody is claiming they make no money. I only quoted the Alabama and Auburn paragraph because folks often don't read the entire article or simply skim it for information of interest to them. You're welcome...



Geez, sorry. Sometimes delivery is lost or misunderstood across the Internets. When I read your article quote, all I saw was "Alabama...Auburn..." So lost interest just like every other UA or AU post.
Heck to be honest, the title alone would've got me to read it until your quote then I thought "it's a rehash of every other article with Texas...blahblahbblah....Oregon....blahblahblah....Alabama....yaddayaddayadda." I get it, you quoted UA and AU because you thought people would be more interested in reading it then. Cool. For some peoples, it was the opposites.
You do understand point of view though?

The important thing is to comprehend the point being made by any writing and to try to refrain from a "knee jerk reaction" to the mere mention of particular schools. The relative few schools with multimillion dollar programs are the ones most likely to play for every national championship.

If one lists all schools who have played in either a BCS NC game or the two NC playoff games (the second one is next month), one finds only a few (repeated) names on your list. The big money schools have made about 90% of the nation's university FB programs irrelevant to the NC picture.

This may help explain the profusion of new bowl games. The 90% of schools have accepted that the NC games are for the relative few and the other bowls are for the rest who take "sloppy seconds".
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RE: Forbes: College Football's Most Valuable Teams 2015
BamaBlazer I get the subject and purpose of the article. What I was getting at is....

MERRY CHRISTMAS EVERYBODY!!!!
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RE: Forbes: College Football's Most Valuable Teams 2015
(12-24-2015 03:32 PM)rook360 Wrote:  BamaBlazer I get the subject and purpose of the article. What I was getting at is....

MERRY CHRISTMAS EVERYBODY!!!!

Thank you for your holiday message

All of us have certain topics to which we have "knee jerk reactions". Mine are mainly public education (specifically) in Alabama and (generally) in America and UAB sport's program FACILITIES, particularly football (after 30 years, UAB seems on track to actually build some new, not just renovated, FACILITIES in this decade).
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