(06-21-2021 04:54 PM)emu79 Wrote:  

(06-21-2021 04:26 PM)dansplaining Wrote:  

(06-21-2021 04:16 PM)emu79 Wrote:  

(06-21-2021 03:36 PM)dansplaining Wrote:  

(06-21-2021 03:11 PM)emu steve Wrote:  If you can find more athletic monies at EMU. I suggest you email or better yet call Dr. James Smith. He'll be 'all ears."

I watched a presentation sometime ago Dr. Smith made to faculty and staff, "like we got no money..." "We need to reduce faculty and staff."

NO one would say EMU is ''sandbagging' and is sitting on money.

EMU students and the university as a whole are making big contributions to athletics.

The best EMU and other G5 schools can hope is that new revenue sources open up. I mentioned the CFP. My hope is that if a MAC team makes it one year maybe it opens up say another 10, 20 or more million bucks for the MAC to be spread among the other 11 teams.

the NCAA is expanding the playoff to 12 teams. those extra games - the ad revenue, the attendance dollars, the sponsorship - all that money goes into a large pit right?

stop asking about individual schools and think about the corrupt system top to bottom. its a cartel.

The NCAA is made up of individual schools. Why is that so hard for you to see that? And I object that you lump the EMUs of the world as part of your corrupt system. Real athletes will see their opportunities in college sports possibly decrease which means the cure is worse than the disease that you rant about. Reform the entire system so it works for everybody. And stop having non athlete students subsidize it.

Yeah and McDonalds is just a bunch of restaurants.

Should all parts of a school be self-sufficient? Should they fold the theater because it isnt self sufficient? Thats a clown argument bro.

Dan its not a clown argument Komrade, its called reality and if you don't believe it try it with your own personal budget. By the way during the pandemic many movie chain and individual parts of the chain closed shop ditto restaurants. Why because the individual locations weren't self sufficient and that made the chain bankrupt. By the way sports college or otherwise is a business and needs to be run like one. Colleges are in the education business not the sports business Dan. If the sports interferes with the overall mission then eliminate or downgrade it so it doesn't interfere with the main mission which is to educate not entertain. Frankly we should be switching over to all on line classes and cutting the cost of education. Let those with more $$$ pay for the experience if that is their choice. How's that for a corrupt system?

I love being called 'komrade' for arguing the most capitalistic argument in the world : people should be paid for their labor.

College sports is about to go through a SEISMIC shift. mid majors are going to have to 'right size'. maybe that means the creation of a new division between the p5 juggernauts and I-AA. maybe that means more schools drop to 1-AA. maybe that means out of conference games will be closer to ypsi to cut down on travel expenses (hello more MAC / Horizon league showdowns in basketball). i dont know. what i do know is that the current system only can exist because its exploitative to the VAST majority of participants and that with every legal case brought against the NCAA and the member institutions it represents - the wall crumbles more and more.

most of the arguments against players rights brought up on these threads over and over and over again basically boil down to 'This will make it even harder for EMU to compete with Alabama' and 'I don't like it' - neither of which are good arguments.

I love emu football and am a season ticket holder - but it would be deeply selfish of me to want to perpetuate an unfair system for my own entertainment purposes. I've laid out argument after argument for why players deserve rights as labor and some of you have acknowledged coming over to my side - or at very least seeing the issues in a new light. i dont think EMU football is going to go away - but the system as it is right now? its the dodo bird. the sooner we call accept that the sooner we arent old men yelling at clouds and the sooner we can argue about what retro jerseys we want to see (id like the old big Y men from ypsi unis from the 40s) or complain about the food offerings at games (more food trucks - less microwaved chick fil a).