(06-15-2022 09:48 AM)emu steve Wrote:  

(06-15-2022 09:27 AM)dansplaining Wrote:  

(06-15-2022 09:25 AM)emu steve Wrote:  

(06-15-2022 08:03 AM)dansplaining Wrote:  

(06-15-2022 07:01 AM)emu steve Wrote:  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.

in the NFL the money that goes into that 50/50 split are for the whole league and not on a team by team basis. for example - the cowboys make more money that the lions. the cowboys dont get to spend more money than the lions. the revenue is pooled together and shared.

Not completely. Some of the ticket revenue is shared and some is not. TV money is shared equally.

NFL is a quasi-socialistic organization complete with sharing of revenue and spending caps, as you indicate.

correct - different teams are more profitable than others but for the sake of player / team revenue splits - the pot is shared for all teams.

I am suggesting that instead of looking at how EMU isnt profitable we should be looking at division 1 college football across the board.

As my edited post above indicates, your statement is only partially true.

The quoted percentage of revenue which is shared = 61%.

correct - but when the salary floor and cap are created it is equal across the whole league because it sees the leagues revenue as a whole rather than as a team by team basis.