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RE: Olympic Sports are getting Axed at breakneck speed
(11-16-2020 01:22 PM)jdgaucho Wrote: (11-16-2020 11:36 AM)johnbragg Wrote: (11-16-2020 10:03 AM)ccd494 Wrote: There's a big part of me that feels like if P5/FBS football and basketball are money making, clearly there's a market for a private entity to take over and run them as actual professional leagues that provide compensation and security to the players without the amateurism fiction.
Consider that the amateurism fiction is a big part of the business model. Google up "Jerry Seinfeld Cheering For Laundry." The names on the back barely matter, the names on the front matter a lot.
If you move from the wink-wink "scholar-athlete" Ohio State Buckeyes to the mid-level professional Ohio Scarlet and Gray, you're liable to see ticket sales and TV revenues drop to XFL/AAF/Big 3 levels.
(11-16-2020 10:23 AM)jdgaucho Wrote: What makes no sense is Clemson dropping men's cross country, indoor and outdoor track on one side of the spectrum, and Iowa and Minnesota dropping several sports - and on the other UC Santa Barbara breaking ground on a new tennis facility while cutting nothing.
We can't be better off financially than these P5 institutions, can we?
You guys got a big fat donation for a tennis center. Maybe you can talk to the donor about using that tennis complex as a multi-sport facility somehow, but you've gotta work that out with your billionaire.
https://www.noozhawk.com/article/john_an...ex_at_ucsb
Does Clemson not have any alums or donors willing to step up and save their sports?
I think it's more that "John Arnhold, former chairman of the board of the International Tennis Hall of Fame" happens to be a UCSB alum.
Clemson's donors and alumni are tapped pretty hard to fund competitive football. If there's more juice in that orange, it's more likely to go to a wall of TV's and PS5's in the football center than to save three sports with one coach that, clearly, no one at Clemson cares much about.
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