(06-15-2022 06:47 AM)dansplaining Wrote:  

(06-15-2022 06:43 AM)Bob Wickersham Wrote:  

(06-15-2022 06:05 AM)dansplaining Wrote:  

(06-14-2022 06:19 AM)Bob Wickersham Wrote:  

(06-04-2022 08:59 AM)dansplaining Wrote:  am i wrong?

Yes Dan, you are wrong. A college coach does much more than make decisions on Saturday! I don't even know where to begin...the amount of work they do keeping the whole operation afloat is stunning. Recruiting, administrative work, media availability, fundraising, babysitting...oh yeah, if you lose too much or if one of your 80+ players, training staff, or assistant coaches does or says something controversial, it's your ass. A college player is just passing through, man. They can play like s**t and they rarely even get criticized because they are "student athletes." You can make a case that college football coaches are underpaid. I sure as hell wouldn't want to do it. Your argument is silly.

My argument is that players should get more compensation - not that coaches should get paid less.

The coaches are fine and even the best individual college players are just replaceable cogs in the machinery-- and I get it, you want everyone involved in college athletics to be flush with cash. My advice to all the kiddos playing college football: enjoy your FREE education and have fun playing your inconsequential little sport, us adults will watch on Saturdays and then move on with our lives. This s*** is not life or death, we all have lives. *applies to everyone except to SEC, OSU, and U-M fans, none of whom attended the university they root for.*

NFL players and NFL management have a 50/50 split in revenue. there isnt a compelling argument that players shouldnt get a bigger revenue share.

Do you realize what a 50 - 50 split of revenues for EMU FB or MBB is?

And the value of athletic scholarships are probably worth MORE than the athletic revenues derived from that sport. You do realize that a scholarship all inclusive including COA might be say 40K per year x 85 = 3.5M. That is almost all of revenue related to FB. CC would have to work for the min. wage. $20 / hour if he wins the MACC.

And if EMU athletics was a corporation it would be bankrupt. It is heavily subsidized by the university community.

I'll repeat a comment that has been made many, many times, and falls on deaf ears. There are 360+ d-I schools which participate in MBB. Maybe 75 operate in the black. Sure folks talk about UofM, OSU, AL, etc. etc. but they are the top quartile. College athletics is a case of the haves and have nots. Most are have nots.

And as far as pro sports, MANY teams operate at an operating loss. Their value is NOT as an ongoing operation like an electric company which provides a good or service and produces a profit for shareholders, it value is that sports team have a value like rare art where someone will value it as something which has great value to them Or in the case of pro sports teams, its income stream.

A pro team is bought low and sold high. Someone might buy a franchise for 500M and sell it later for 2B, even if it doesn't make a profit.