(06-23-2021 06:02 PM)Jerry Weaver Wrote:  

(06-23-2021 10:34 AM)emu steve Wrote:  

(06-23-2021 09:45 AM)emu79 Wrote:  Last I recall the Factory could use about $8 million in concrete repairs. And yes we will need a new stadium or renovation.
If the State has extra dollars for EMU maybe paying off the SAPC and the $8 million would be helpful.
Right now finance costs ie interest rates are low that will change next year.

I'm going off an a $ tangent. I saw some $ on the proposed pot of $ for the possible expanded CFP.

I believe the TV money would go from 600M to 1B. Sounds impressive but does it mean G5 schools might go from 1M per school to 2M per school.

That is hardly hitting the lottery. EMU will hardly get rich if NO MAC team, let alone EMU, makes the CFP. It' like get $1,400 stimulus while someone cashes in 100K in the stock market last year.

The only way to do well is IF a MAC team makes the CFP. That would significantly increase the MAC's share of the pot. Otherwise, it is 'trickle down' with conferences not playing in the CFP getting small bucks.

OK, Justice Kavanaugh just labeled the NCAA as a business, it is high time for the NCAA to start acting like one.

The best run pro sports organization in our country, the NFL has a revenue sharing agreement that equally benefits ALL of their members and a salary cap that maintains competitive balance. The NCAA, however, flounders as they select college Presidents to run their organization, I suppose as an effort to maintain a semblance of "academic integrity". Nevertheless Mark Emmert just is not Roger Goodell.

What that has manifested into is a situation where Nick Saban earns over $10M a year and the top 30 schools in the NCAA turn a profit. I hear it on NPR, I hear it from Dan and the Supreme Court heard it as well, college sports make a whole lot of money! Unfortunately the remainder of those college programs compete in sports paid for by the students enrolled in their University. That business model is insane!

I think the sports business model that makes most sense for college sports is that of the MLB - where you have CLEAR haves and have nots but a revenue sharing model that floats all boats. Also no cap.